How to use lighten in a sentence

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• I wish he'd lighten up a bit and realize that we were only joking.From the entry lighten up
• The mood at work has been tense, so he's looking for ways to lighten it up.From the entry lighten up
• By then the sky is lightening, sun candescent at the hill of her shoulder.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 118. From the entry candescent
• Lucie Bright of Innocent is probably right that this cultural lightening up is, broadly, a good thing.2014 March 25, Sophy Grimshaw, The Guardian. From the entry wackaging
• If you folks can't take being laughed at, you've really got to lighten up.2008 February 17, Ananamuss [username], “Re: dissent”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet). From the entry srs bsns
• L." He glared at the sky as if daring it to lighten without his permission.1978, Phyllis S. Moore, Williwaw, Breakwater Books, page 164. From the entry superferocious
• Providing parajudicial assistance to lighten judges' administrative workloads also would be inconsistent with increased judicial compensation.1974 December, James G. France, “The Williamsburg Consensus Revisited”, in William & Mary Law Review, volume 16, number 2, William & Mary…. From the entry parajudicial
• Recent legislation, though, makes a difference, lightening matters for critics, and biographers as well.1967, The Listener. From the entry anti-homosexualism
• These kindergarten playground tactics are a great way to lighten up two rituals that are often a little stiff.2017 October 3, The Black Tux, “How Other World Cultures Do This Wedding Thing”, in The Groom’s Guide: For Men on the Verge of Marriage…. From the entry takesy-backsies
• When the sky lightened in another of those diffuse spasms, I could see horsepucky pats, some of them fresh.2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804. From the entry horse pucky
• Try lightening things up via team-building activities.2009, Eli Mina, One hundred and one boardroom problems and how to solve them, page 96. From the entry deformalize
• You can try to dig in manure, which will lighten the soil, but then you will raise your border.2002 January 24, Kostas Kavoussanakis, “Re: Making a new border”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry chrysanthema
• You can come again after you sell something, or you can simply discard an item to lighten your load.1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System. From the entry purchase
• Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened.1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97. From the entry landholding
• He balances very badly,” to lighten the practice.1975, C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, “Afterword: Footnote to “Shambleau”...and Others”, in Lester Del Rey [pseudonym; Leonard Knapp]…. From the entry quick brown fox
• The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet. From the entry junket
• He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry turn of foot
• The idea of all this shifting was simply to weighten the bows, thereby lightening the stern, and so obtain the utmost hydrodynamic benefit.2001, Bernard Moitessier, Sailing to the Reefs, page 214. From the entry weighten
• The foofoo had a very good texture, neither too light nor too heavy; no doubt the cassava had been lightened with green bananas.1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 168. From the entry foofoo
• In the following year it was even rumored in Edinburgh that Waverly was written by Jeffrey “to lighten the taedium of his transatlantic voyage.”1941, The New England Quarterly, page 316. From the entry taedium
• She would have given anything to lighten her mind of its burdens and to be able to think of her husband without suspicion.1938, R. K. Narayan, chapter 6, in The Dark Room. From the entry unangry
• In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry hough
• The only joys that lighten her dusty pilgrimage through this vale of tears are eating candy and giving cheek to her superior officer.1913, Robert Blatchford, Tommy Atkins of the Ramchunders, page 106. From the entry death on
• As we came alongside the Will-Glyn and breasted up (roped together) there was still an hour to go before the sky would lighten up for the break of day.2009, Yocky Lol Gilson, Challenge of the Sea, page 53. From the entry breast up
• I think it's time we all lightened up and realized that we can't control each other's behaviors or alter each other's personalities by dissecting every little thing with genderspeak.1998, Loretta LaRoche, Relax--You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work…. From the entry genderspeak
• On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.[1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry Zhanjiang
• The wetness indicator is a toy block design on the diaper, its colored letters lighten as the inside of the diaper goes from dry to very wet.1980, Charles D. Schewe, Reuben M. Smith, Marketing: concepts and applications, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry wetness indicator
• "Forever is a word forbidden to men," asserted Ulrica and, to lighten the emphasis, she asked me to repeat my name, which she had not caught.1975, Jorge Luis Borges, “Ulrica”, in The Book of Sand. From the entry Ulrica
• On a tramway installation, drag the haul rope through each intermediate tower, placing it in the snatch block as the tower is passed to lighten the load.1964, United States Department of the Army, Cableways, Tramways and Suspension Bridges, page 117. From the entry snatch block
• Even though she’s half Hungarian, Mom calls these thin pancakes crepes instead of “palacsinta.” And perhaps they are crepes; most palacsinta are prepared with carbonated water to lighten the batter.2015, Sasha Martin, “Overnight Crepes”, in Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, Washington, D.C.: National…. From the entry palacsinta
• To lighten the load, I've slimmed down to just one huevo, and instead amped up the ratio of black beans (simmered in a saucepan, not refried, with aromatics and spices).2010, Kim O'Donnel, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, →ISBN. From the entry huevo
• If a port-wine stain has been treated with another modality, such as the argon, CO2, or KTP laser, electrocautery, radiation, or tattooing, FPDL treatment may provide less lightening and improvement.2001, Gregory Keller, Victor Lacombe, Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery, page 188. From the entry modality

Meaning of lighten

1. verb To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
2. verb To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
3. verb To flash lightning, to give off lightning.

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Questions about lighten in a sentence

How do you use lighten in a sentence?

Lighten is used as a verb. For example: “Sorrow can be lightened by being openly brought out.”

What is a short sentence with lighten?

“Many hands lighten the workload.”

What does lighten mean?

Lighten means to make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.