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How to use limelight in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Limelight means the intense white light produced when heating lime in an oxyhydrogen flame. Example: “The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public.”

Examples of limelight by meaning

nounAttention, notice, a starring or central role, present fame; spotlight.

  • steal the limelight

More sentences with limelight

  • The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public.From the entry in the limelight
  • But keeping their clients out of court—and out of the limelight—was the firm's forté.2012, Cristina Alger, The Darlings. From the entry forté
  • But Maore, a cheerful scallywag with a taste for the limelight, was made of more daring stuff.2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower. From the entry scallywag
  • The Yanshuei District, Tainan, is once more in the public limelight because to tales and fantasies about the moon.2023 January 19, Tim Wu, “The Lunar New Year Attractions to See at Once, Lantern Festivals and Markets in Taiwan”, in National Immigration…. From the entry Yanshuei
  • The jackbooted origins of his party, which he was working so carefully to hide, marching back into the limelight.2015, Eva Dolan, Tell No Tales, London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry jackbooted
  • The old man is where he likes to be, with a pin-point limelight right on his hairy old head.1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray…. From the entry buzz
  • Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight.2010 June 14, Carrie Dunn, “Tony awards: Hollywood invasion provokes Broadway stage whispers”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry best pleased
  • Kissed A Girl chart topper Perry is tipped to continue her own bout of controversy using her ‘lesploitation pop’ and image to keep in the limelight.2008 December 23, Andrei Harmsworth, “Rihanna and Katy hottest for ’09?”, in Metro, UK. From the entry lesploitation
  • The next time you see a bookmaker at his hod, waving his ticket-filled hands, shouting the odds, look to his left, just back a bit—out of the limelight.2006, Tommy Steele, chapter 6, in Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a Forgotten World, large print edition, Bath, Somerset: Windsor Paragon; BBC…. From the entry hod

Meaning of limelight

  1. noun The intense white light produced when heating lime in an oxyhydrogen flame.
  2. noun A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime.
  3. noun Attention, notice, a starring or central role, present fame; spotlight.

Full definition of limelight

Questions about limelight in a sentence

How do you use limelight in a sentence?
Limelight is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public.”
What is a short sentence with limelight?
“steal the limelight”
What does limelight mean?
Limelight means the intense white light produced when heating lime in an oxyhydrogen flame.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limelight (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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