Sample Sentences for
highlight
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(editor-reviewed)

highlight as in:  highlight the main findings

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The main purpose of this passage is to highlight the degree of income inequality.
highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
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    The mayor highlighted positive developments in the city.
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
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    The story highlights a growing problem in our society.
    highlights = emphasizes (draws attention to)
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    She showed me how she uses makeup to highlight her cheekbones.
    highlight = emphasize (draw attention to)
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    Their conversation navigated two lives, with vital details highlighted and excluded, and it was also a dance, for they were former lovers, and they had not wounded each other so deeply as to have lost their ability to find a rhythm together,  (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (calling attention to)
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    'And,' Selena pointed out, 'it highlights what King Wah said.'  (source)
    highlights = emphasizes (calls attention to)
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    Highlight some of Katniss's best moments intercut with scenes of rebel uprisings and war footage.  (source)
    Highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
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    In 2009, ABC News ran a news report about Appalachian America, highlighting a phenomenon known locally as "Mountain Dew mouth": painful dental problems in young children, generally caused by too much sugary soda.  (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
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    The brilliance also highlighted the scars on the car's body, the scratches and gouges in sharp relief.  (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
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    And he kind of wanted his mom to give him blond highlights.†  (source)
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    The pictures were supposed to show the equality of the sexes or highlight discrimination against women.  (source)
    highlight = call attention to
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    The dress sleeked down, as it was meant to, the bronze tone adding warmth to Eve's skin, the lines highlighting her long, lean form.  (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to something)
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    A yearlong government advertising campaign has highlighted the dangers of the journey.  (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
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    Her blond hair was streaked with red highlights —very subtle for a stealth mission.†  (source)
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highlight as in:  highlights of the year

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Did you watch the video highlights?
highlights = best parts
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    It was the highlight of our vacation.
    highlight = best part
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    To listen to August talk, it had been the highlight of her youth.  (source)
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    The highlight of the year was when Mr. Galvin's dentures fell out during his lecture on earthquakes.  (source)
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    No doubt this would be the highlight of Illea programming tomorrow.  (source)
    highlight = best part
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    Whoever puts together the highlights has to choose what sort of story to tell.  (source)
    highlights = things to emphasize as important
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    The highlight was going to be a special appearance by the woman who portrayed Mother Paula in the advertisements and TV spots.  (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
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    Betty, I'm not giving "way all the highlights before anybody's bought the book!" laughs Skeeter.  (source)
    highlights = best parts
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    Of course, as far as the little kids were concerned, the highlight of the whole party was not the birthday boy, Piper McNab, but the McNab's new pillbox.  (source)
    highlight = best part
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    Let me just give you the highlights.  (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
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    A beautiful highlight-reel goal.  (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
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    —the user seemed to like mostly basketball highlights and...  (source)
    highlights = best plays
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    The highlight of his daily routine is walking through the women's department, where he works.  (source)
    highlight = best part
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    Now, I'd heard all about Bible in Sunday school or at church, but to be frank, I just remembered the highlights-the Lord sending the seven plagues so the Israelites could leave Egypt, Jonah being swallowed by a whale, Jesus walking across the water or raising Lazarus from the dead.  (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
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highlight as in:  highlights and shadows

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I'm learning to enrich my painting with highlights and shadows.
highlights = lighter areas
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    Her photographic portraits tend to minimize the highlights and boost the shadows.
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    My face is relatively clear of makeup, just a bit of highlighting here and there.  (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing by making some areas lighter
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    She couldn't believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched.  (source)
    highlights = parts that are lighter and draw attention
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    Around his temples, the gray highlights were advancing, making their way deeper into his thicket of coarse black hair.  (source)
    highlights = lighter areas
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    He wrote 12 X 12 = 144 in the sand, but she ran past him, dived into the breaking surf, down to the calm, and swam until he followed into a place where gray-blue light beams slanted through the quiet and highlighted their forms.  (source)
    highlighted = made lighter and drew attention to
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    The gold griffins gleamed with colored highlights garnered from scores of lanterns.  (source)
    highlights = shining points
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    Not until we're all sitting out onstage and Caesar Flickerman, hair and face highlighted in lavender this year, has done his opening spiel and the tributes begin their interviews.  (source)
    highlighted = emphasized with areas of color
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    So much I saw then, all vaguely for the flickering of the lightning, in blinding highlights and dense black shadows.  (source)
    highlights = things made bright
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    The sandstone around her nose shimmered like gilded dew, turning clear with dancing silver highlights.  (source)
    highlights = lighter areas
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    He puts up my hair first, in the braided style my mother introduced him to, then proceeds with my makeup. Last year he used little so that the audience would recognize me when I landed in the arena. But now my face is almost obscured by the dramatic highlights and dark shadows.  (source)
    highlights = areas made lighter to draw attention
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highlight as in:  highlights in hair

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The salon added highlights to her hair.
highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
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    She gets blond highlights in the summer.
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    Trouble is, whoever's been doing you must have been using hedge trimmers and no highlight puncher, either.  (source)
    highlight = to make some strips of hair lighter
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    Some girls got things called highlights, and others, like Sosie, had the color changed completely.  (source)
    highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
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    That hair was jet black, so black that it didn't even have lighter highlights, and electric with curls spilling over her shoulders.  (source)
    highlights = lighter strands
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    Her hair was a tangled mess of highlighted blonde tresses.  (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
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    The white bandage around her upper arm gleamed in the darkness, reflecting a faint highlight onto the bottom of her hair.  (source)
    highlight = an area of hair that is lighter in color
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    What I could do for you with a little highlighting.  (source)
    highlighting = making some strips of hair lighter
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    She shook out her hair, with so-red-they-were-pink highlights.  (source)
    highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
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    She was a pretty Asian woman with red highlighted hair tied in a bun.  (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
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    She had done away with the drab ponytails, let her hair grow, and streaked it with red highlights.  (source)
    highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
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    Emily turned to Lena and expertly shot her a look that managed to work its way from the very top of Lena's un-highlighted hair, past her un-tanned face, down to the tips of her un-pinked fingernails.  (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
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    "Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes."  (source)
    highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
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    Phillip points to Nancy and says, "Look at Nancy's hair." I look and see its not long like it used to be and it is highlighted with red streaks.  (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
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highlight as in:  highlights with a yellow marker

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The previous owner of the book highlighted with a yellow marker, so I'm using a green one.
highlighted = marked important text
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    She highlighted this quote: "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."
    highlighted = marked (important text)
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    What are the most highlighted quotes from the book according to Kindle's e-reader?
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    After about ten minutes of searching, the software highlighted a possible match.  (source)
    highlighted = marked (to draw attention)
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    Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless's distinctive hand.  (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
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    I'm highlighting my way through US history when Josh asks me, "Are you going to try out for Arcadia?"  (source)
    highlighting = marking important text
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    If you go to the end of 'Song of Myself,' she highlights this stuff about dying.  (source)
    highlights = marks as important
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    Tape the Woody poster to the back of the blinds, circle the song on the record, highlight those two lines from "Song of Myself" in a different color than I'd highlighted stuff when I was actually reading it.  (source)
    highlight = mark text (typically with a fluorescent marker)
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    She points out the two highlighted numbers on the bottom of the screen.  (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
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    When the display screen popped up, the holographic map highlighting the route, Eve only snarled.  (source)
    highlighting = marking (to draw attention)
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    She reads the Whitman and highlights "I tramp a perpetual journey," because that's the kind of thing she likes to imagine herself doing, the kind of thing she likes to plan.  (source)
    highlights = marks as important
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    I followed the map to a tee, pacing my steps, trying to identify the landmarks that my squad leader had highlighted.  (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
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    I stop highlighting midsentence.  (source)
    highlighting = marking important text
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    Dad had highlighted a Family Ties marathon for the following Sunday night, using the little slip of paper as a bookmark.  (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
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highlight as in:  highlights the text and deletes

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Just highlight and delete the paragraph.
highlight = select (on a computer screen)
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    Highlight the word and then make it bold.
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    I highlighted that icon and tapped the Fire button.  (source)
    highlighted = selected (on a computer screen)
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    Blomkvist highlighted all the documents and deleted them.  (source)
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    Peter highlighted the text on his computer screen and deleted it.  (source)
    highlighted = selected
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    When one of these robots was highlighted, a detailed list of its stats and weaponry appeared on the screen beside it.  (source)
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