How to Use enlightenment in a Sentence

enlightenment

noun
  • His comments failed to provide enlightenment.
  • Burke could tell him a few things about the myth of the French enlightenment.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Drake, thank you and may this next journey be one of great enlightenment.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The night sky has always been a source of wonder and enlightenment.
    — Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Mayhem and enlightenment, in road-trip comedies, go hand in hand.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
  • Trust that there is a sense of enlightenment waiting for you on the other side of this detour.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The tree is from the seed of the tree Buddha sat under to achieve enlightenment.
    — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The tree is grown from the seed of the tree that the Buddha sat beneath to achieve enlightenment.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
  • The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 Mar. 2017
  • The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
    — Maureen Dowd, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • Buddha, for example, gave up the rich life of a prince for enlightenment.
    — William Wan, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The sport has come out of the dark ages and is now in an age of enlightenment and opportunity.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Aleys, at first, seems to be on a path toward personal enlightenment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The enlightenment for us is that material things can be gone within a day.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Or how any of this serves the cause of free speech, public enlightenment or democracy itself.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Everyone is welcome to this retreat on the stages of the path to enlightenment.
    — courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The potential pop star spoke to us about music, enlightenment and life after near-death.
    — Natalie Maher, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Maybe reading what Maple says will help people find their way more quickly to enlightenment.
    — cleveland, 5 Feb. 2022
  • That this apparent enlightenment leads to bloody basement fistfights is among the film’s core ironies.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Pop the cap and the fizz is brief, bestowing neither blessing nor enlightenment.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • Across the ages, people have traveled to the farthest reaches of the world in search of solace and enlightenment.
    — National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • When lens flares continually beam right at the screen, the whole movie feels like enlightenment under duress.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Open Your Mind For the person in your life who could use a little enlightenment.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The Arhats were Buddhist figures on the path to enlightenment but who stayed in this world to help others.
    — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
  • But Alpert eventually sought a way to reach a state of enlightenment without drugs.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Sometimes a person is filled with so much rage and anger that lotus poses and pan flute music just can’t take one down the path of enlightenment.
    — Bridgette M. Redman, Chron, 17 June 2021
  • Redemption is the story arc that begins with the fallen and ends with enlightenment and involves a great many helpers along the way.
    — Big Think, 14 June 2024
  • Aliume is not the first artist to hope that his work can be a catalyst for some sort of enlightenment, one stunned observer at a time.
    — Duff McDonald, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The story sees a young man embark on a quest for Buddhist enlightenment that was the last wish of his dying father.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 July 2022
  • The crawl from one to the other matters as much as the enlightenment itself—skipping the charnel grounds isn’t an option.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025

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