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Sentence No, the phrase 'to limelight' is not correct and cannot be used in written English
However, the phrase 'in the limelight' can be used in written English and it means to be the focus of attention of the public. Example: The actor was in the limelight after winning the award.
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to limelight
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A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime.
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Writer studied the separator word tape & went to Limelight to watch a wig show.
And he found that he took to its ink like an actor to limelight.
When we went out, we'd go to Limelight and USA and raves.
Another late-night destination is Avalon, a dance club in a onetime church formerly home to Limelight.
"Schwarzenegger Takes to Limelight Again" (news article, Sept. 1) illustrated the major role that Arnold Schwarzenegger can play in the November election.
In the hotel's Elizabethan dining room, the band struck up the theme to Limelight, the Charlie Chaplin film about an elderly clown who fell in love with a much younger dancer.
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Adele also wishes she had not shared her fears about returning to the limelight with a child with Albarn.
Subtle enough not to steal the limelight, it has it's own nutty moreish flavour.
Instead he kept looking for opportunities to return to the limelight and embellish his legend.
But after half a season under the radar, the Steelers returned to the limelight and to the postseason conversation Sunday.
A firm and an industry that had become accustomed to obscurity will have to get used to the limelight.
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