limelight
IPA: ɫˈaɪmɫaɪt
noun
- A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime.
- (by extension) Attention, notice, a starring or central role, present fame.
verb
- to illuminate with limelight
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Examples of "limelight" in Sentences
- Her college life was the limelight.
- At these, he learned of the discovery of limelight.
- He took the drummer from the dark to the limelight.
- In fact, the company itself is out of the limelight.
- It was also the time canned foods had in the limelight.
- Cody spent the rest of the year away from the limelight.
- I just want to bask in the limelight of your brilliance.
- Gradually, the diatonic accordion emerged to share the limelight.
- Johansson's introduction to the sport's limelight was inauspicious.
- He was in the limelight of the fight for prohibition and public education.
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