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How To Use light upon In A Sentence

• Both were mighty queens in the underworld where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness.
• He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.
• Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius. The Poems of Henry Timrod.
• The captain counts it a light upon one of the headlands of the Jersey shore; and he orders the helmsman (she is sailing in the eye of an easy westerly breeze) to give her a couple of points more "northing"; and the yards and sheets are trimmed accordingly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
• Sparkling drops of dew were bright points of light upon her skin.
• She exclaimed in delight upon hearing the news.
• The soft grass they stood on was covered in sweet dew, the water gleaming and reflecting the light upon their faces.
• In the bathroom, clean the loo, sink and bath, in, out, up and over, as if the President herself might alight upon them at any time, and get rid of any limescale that will suggest hard water problems.
• A combination of these two theories will surely shed more light upon meaning construction of texts.
• It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall. Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons