Sentence examples for only lighten from inspiring English sources

The best pre-lighteners will not only lighten your hair but strip any previous permanent color left in your hair.

Now if he can only lighten up a bit.

Today, 11 percent only sweeten (with sugar or artificial sweetener), and 19 percent only lighten (with a dairy or nondairy product), while 48 percent both sweeten and lighten their coffee.

Rossetti said the conceptual breakthrough came six months ago, when architects determined they could support the roof with eight columns instead of 32, which would not only lighten the load but also limit the impact on walkways and amenities near the stadium.

But less than admirably, they only lighten up and add some chipperness to their vocals once, on "Testing the Water," the only song here written by Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey and Shane McAnally, who hail from a looser school of country songcraft.

Only lighten the mood in this way if it's appropriate for what you're talking about.

Bringing up sports not only lightens the tone, it implies an explicit analogy to the conduct of politics.

Humor not only lightens the mood, she added, but also acknowledges that "men and women have been talking to each other about sex in veiled terms for centuries".

This "double carry" strategy, which essentially means you're climbing the mountain twice, not only lightens your load but reduces the risk of high-altitude pulmonary and cerebral edema -- two of the biggest dangers on the mountain -- by giving the body more time to acclimate to the elevation.

The contribution of this paper is to suggest a role assignment methodology that not only lightens the assignment workload by providing the capability of identifying a small set of appropriate candidates but also enables the efficient assignment by streamlining the assignment task.

We propose that a higher degree of interactivity elevates performance in part because it creates a dynamic problem configuration that not only lightens the load, but also leads to the creation of congenial interim sums and to physically segregated categories of elements (such as those counted, those yet to be counted).