highlight

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The mayor highlighted positive developments in the city.

The story highlights a growing problem in our society.

She showed me how she uses makeup to highlight her cheekbones.

The brilliance also highlighted the scars on the car's body, the scratches and gouges in sharp relief.  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

This wasn't one of my prouder moments, but it highlights the inner conflict inspired by rapid upward mobility: I had lied to a stranger to avoid feeling like a traitor.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

The pictures were supposed to show the equality of the sexes or highlight discrimination against women.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

And we're adding a fashion column, highlighting some of the best outfits worn by our members, and a makeup column with all the latest trends.  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

A yearlong government advertising campaign has highlighted the dangers of the journey.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

'And,' Selena pointed out, 'it highlights what King Wah said.'  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

No judge wants to deal with attack ads that highlight the grisly details of a murder case in which the judge failed to impose the most severe punishment.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

He often had write-ups in the local paper, highlighting his playing performance: "Davis goes three for four, with four RBIs, while pitching a four-hitter as University tops Shabazz 6-5."  (source) Sampon Davis, et. al., We Beat the Street, 2005

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) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights.†  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

It was the highlight of our vacation.

To listen to August talk, it had been the highlight of her youth.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

The highlight was going to be a special appearance by the woman who portrayed Mother Paula in the advertisements and TV spots.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

The highlight of his daily routine is walking through the women's department, where he works.  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

Whoever puts together the highlights has to choose what sort of story to tell.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

And senior year is the highlight of your entire high school experience.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

Let me just give you the highlights.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

And if you were a boy living in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

—the user seemed to like mostly basketball highlights and...  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

The highlight of the year was when Mr. Galvin's dentures fell out during his lecture on earthquakes.  (source) Lincoln Pierce, Big Nate - In a Class by Himself, 2010

Betty, I'm not giving "way all the highlights before anybody's bought the book!" laughs Skeeter.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

The highlight of that Hot Seat came when Kevin asked Parr who was his hero, his role model.  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

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) Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember, 1999

Her photographic portraits tend to minimize the highlights and boost the shadows.

My face is relatively clear of makeup, just a bit of highlighting here and there.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

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) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

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) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

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) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

Around his temples, the gray highlights were advancing, making their way deeper into his thicket of coarse black hair.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The gold griffins gleamed with colored highlights garnered from scores of lanterns.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003

So much I saw then, all vaguely for the flickering of the lightning, in blinding highlights and dense black shadows.  (source) H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898

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) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

The sandstone around her nose shimmered like gilded dew, turning clear with dancing silver highlights.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003

She gets blond highlights in the summer.

She shook out her hair, with so-red-they-were-pink highlights.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

Some girls got things called highlights, and others, like Sosie, had the color changed completely.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

She had done away with the drab ponytails, let her hair grow, and streaked it with red highlights.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

She was a pretty Asian woman with red highlighted hair tied in a bun.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse, 2007

The white bandage around her upper arm gleamed in the darkness, reflecting a faint highlight onto the bottom of her hair.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

What I could do for you with a little highlighting.  (source) J. D. Robb, Immortal in Death, 1996

It was one of those ridiculous fights that could have been about who saw the new Lacoste polo dress at Neiman Marcus first or whether honey-colored highlights looked too brassy, but it was really about something else entirely.  (source) Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars, 2006

Her perfectly highlighted blond hair was always smoothed into an elegant twist on the back of her neck, her fingernails were polished by professionals, as were her toenails — visible through the strappy high heels that didn't resemble anything Newton's offered on the long row of hiking boots.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

Trouble is, whoever's been doing you must have been using hedge trimmers and no highlight puncher, either.  (source) J. D. Robb, Immortal in Death, 1996

That hair was jet black, so black that it didn't even have lighter highlights, and electric with curls spilling over her shoulders.  (source) Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic, 1988

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) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

"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) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

She highlighted this quote: "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."

What are the most highlighted quotes from the book according to Kindle's e-reader?

After about ten minutes of searching, the software highlighted a possible match.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

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) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

I'm highlighting my way through US history when Josh asks me, "Are you going to try out for Arcadia?"  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

If you go to the end of 'Song of Myself,' she highlights this stuff about dying.  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

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) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

I followed the map to a tee, pacing my steps, trying to identify the landmarks that my squad leader had highlighted.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

When the display screen popped up, the holographic map highlighting the route, Eve only snarled.  (source) J. D. Robb, Immortal in Death, 1996

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) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

She points out the two highlighted numbers on the bottom of the screen.  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

I stop highlighting midsentence.  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

They smoked cigarettes and looked at each other as if they had suddenly and without preparation moved on to a new page, where the pressing business had already been highlighted for prompt attention.  (source) Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, 2002

Highlight the word and then make it bold.

I highlighted that icon and tapped the Fire button.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Peter highlighted the text on his computer screen and deleted it.  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

Blomkvist highlighted all the documents and deleted them.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009

When one of these robots was highlighted, a detailed list of its stats and weaponry appeared on the screen beside it.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011