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Example sentences for "give light"

  • And principles must be plain and uncontroverted; they must be evident by their own light, and apt to give light to other things.

  • He is the true light, the true life, the sun is not that true light though it give light to the moon and to men, for it borrows its light and shining from him.

  • To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

  • The dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

  • You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

  • A sunbeam has no more power to shine if it be severed from the sun than a man has to give light in this dark world if He be parted from Jesus Christ.

  • Such rejoicing communion with God will give light-footedness in the path of life.

  • The lamp is kindled not to illumine itself, but that it may 'give light to all that are in the house.

  • He spread out a cloud to be a covering: and fire to give light in the night-season.

  • Defn: To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.

  • Torches are principally used for military purposes, to give light, when an army is marching at night, during sieges, &c.

  • They are principally used to give light to the works of an enemy, and to set fire to the passage of the ditch.

  • When the carcass is intended to give light to discover the enemy's works, then the small charges are to be put into the chamber of the mortar, and but little elevation given, for fear it should bury itself in the ground.

  • Methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give light, and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did bend themselves against me.

  • To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.

  • Some things, that are meant to give light, give very little.

  • Some candles give very little light; Candles are meant to give light.

  • Some candles give very little light; Candles are meant to give light.

  • The Sun was made to give light to the Earth by day, and the Moon to give light to Earth by night.

  • The Sun revolved round the Earth to give light by day, the Moon revolved round the Earth to give light by night.

  • And God placed them in the expanse of heaven to give light on the earth, and to preside over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

  • And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of heaven, to give light on the earth: and it was so.

  • The heavenly bodies are under the law of the Creator, and their function relatively to us is to give light and to give time.

  • And let them be Luminaries in the Expanse of Heaven To give light on the earth.

  • Indeed it was supposed that the specific and only purpose for which the sun was formed was to give light and heat to the earth; and the moon and stars were formed to give light by night in the absence of the sun.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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