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  • She showed me how she uses makeup to highlight her cheekbones.
    highlight = emphasize (draw attention to)
  • The story highlights a growing problem in our society.
    highlights = emphasizes (draws attention to)
  • The mayor highlighted positive developments in the city.
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • The pictures were supposed to show the equality of the sexes or highlight discrimination against women.   (source)
    highlight = call attention to
  • 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)
  • The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • 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)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
  • 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)
  • The blush highlighted the hollows beneath her cheekbones ("The hollows that could stand some more hollowing," our grandmother pointed out).   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • Alongside the clutter there is a starkness about the place that appeals to him: the floors are bare, the woodwork stripped, many of the windows without curtains to highlight their generous proportions.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
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  • He highlights the damage done to key infrastructure in various districts, and as he speaks, parts of the map light up, showing images of the destruction.   (source)
    highlights = emphasizes (calls attention to)
  • Root's hesitation was highlighted by the hiss of interference.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • A yearlong government advertising campaign has highlighted the dangers of the journey.   (source)
  • Light glinted off a sapphire, highlighting a strange symbol carved on its face.   (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
  • This served mainly to highlight their near-total confusion.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • The author may be reworking a message, exploring changes (or continuities) in attitudes from one era to another, recalling parts of an earlier work to highlight features of the newly created one, drawing on associations the reader holds in order to fashion something new and, ironically, original.   (source)
  • At three she had to give a tour of the Napoleonic Era, where they were modeling the elimination of physical money—the trackability of internet currency would eliminate huge swaths of crime overnight—and at four, she was supposed to highlight the new musicians' residences on campus—twenty-two fully equipped apartments where musicians, especially those who couldn't count on making a living through sales of their music, could live for free and play regularly for the Circlers.   (source)
  • The operating room is small and crowded, full of blindingly bright lights, which highlight how grubby this place is.   (source)
  • The brilliance also highlighted the scars on the car's body, the scratches and gouges in sharp relief.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • 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)
  • 'And,' Selena pointed out, 'it highlights what King Wah said.'   (source)
    highlights = emphasizes (calls attention to)
  • I wanted very much to cross swords with Percy Yutar, but it was more important that I use the platform to highlight our grievances.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • When silver highlighted the world beyond the window, Katie and Jo stepped out onto the front porch. [In reference to leaves turning "from silver to black and to silver again as they shimmered in the evening breeze."]   (source)
    highlighted = called attention to
  • Nearly all aerial photographs featured Mount Suribachi; maps highlighted it, and news reports emphasized the enemy fire raining down from it.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • In February of 2001, an educational program inside the federal government, called the Department of the Interior University, created a forum to highlight "career balance and diversity."   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • In another ("They put like this bandage stuff around it"), like served "to highlight the introduction of new entities into discourse."   (source)
  • But to highlight the difference, we will take a closer look at the dissimilarities.   (source)
  • She highlighted a series of factors.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
  • Highlight some of Katniss's best moments intercut with scenes of rebel uprisings and war footage.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • Langdon could already tell that the video was an unfair piece of propaganda, omitting all the noblest aspects of the initiation and highlighting only the most disconcerting.   (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
  • It was a street map of D.C. on which certain streets had been highlighted to form various shapes—satanic pentacles, a Masonic compass and square, the head of Baphomet—proof apparently that the Masons who designed Washington, D.C., were involved in some kind of dark, mystical conspiracy.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (to draw attention)
  • 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)
    highlights = emphasizes (calls attention to)
  • The halogen streetlights cast an eerie glow on the macadam, highlighting the route that led to Rick's, taunting him with the possibility that he might never make it there.   (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
  • Like Kayla, she had at least half a dozen piercings in each ear, highlighted with a couple of miniature skulls that dangled from her earlobes, and her dark eye shadow and eyeliner gave her an almost feral appearance.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (calling attention to)
  • 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)
  • But, like so many "black" films of this era, the movie is full of code about dilemmas du jour over race and class, with Martin's down-to-earth, devil-may-care, ghetto scoundrel getting the stamp of black authenticity to highlight how Lynn Whitfield, with her college degrees, corporate status, flawless diction, and foolish desire for monogamous love, has really succeeded only in losing touch with her true black soul.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.   (source)
    highlighted = made very noticeable
  • Not wanting to lecture nor yet to highlight my own experience, I let him do what he would, only offering an occasional suggestion, such as that he might carry his weight on his elbows and not my chest.   (source)
    highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
  • —Leper had the kind of fragile fair skin given to high, unhealthy coloring. He was all color, painted at random, but none of it highlighted his grief.   (source)
    highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
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  • It was the highlight of our vacation.
    highlight = best part
  • And if you were a boy living in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season.   (source)
  • During the highlights, they periodically show the winner's reaction up on a box in the corner of the screen.   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • It was true that many grown-ups in Welch talked about how senior year in high school was the highlight of their lives.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • 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
  • To listen to August talk, it had been the highlight of her youth.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • —the user seemed to like mostly basketball highlights and...   (source)
    highlights = best plays
  • The highlight of his daily routine is walking through the women's department, where he works.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • Let me just give you the highlights.   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • But my older brother was on television, and so far, it has been the highlight of my two weeks in high school.   (source)
    highlight = best part
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  • The highlight of that Hot Seat came when Kevin asked Parr who was his hero, his role model.   (source)
  • The highlight of the year was when Mr. Galvin's dentures fell out during his lecture on earthquakes.   (source)
  • A beautiful highlight-reel goal.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • Betty, I'm not giving "way all the highlights before anybody's bought the book!" laughs Skeeter.   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • No doubt this would be the highlight of Illea programming tomorrow.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • When I talked to Susan Hsu, now a director of medical genetics at the American Red Cross, she told me that working with McKusick on HeLa cells was a highlight of her career.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • Running used to be the highlight of my day, but now it's receiving insulting texts from Holder.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • It was absolutely the highlight of the trip.   (source)
  • But at the very end of the highlight reel, Walsh, perversely, had inserted a single negative play: the Doleman sack.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • And that bastion of high culture, Gilligan's Island, had an episode where Phil Silvers, famous as TV's Sergeant Bilko and therefore adding to the highbrow content, was putting together a musical Hamlet, the highlight of which was Polonius's "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech set to the tune of "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • ESPN was on the television, and Khufu was watching highlights from the games the night before.   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • It was a highlight of my life, the fulfillment of a childhood dream.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out as good
  • 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
  • The highlight of your day is going to be getting up from your desk to go to a meeting.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • I would come home on my lunch hour to make Jenny her lunch, bring her the mail—the highlight of her day—throw sticks to Marley, and straighten up the house, which was slowly taking on a patina of neglect.   (source)
  • But that evening She on TV4 led off with an eleven-minute summary of the highlights in Blomkvist's accusations.   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • The highlight of my night.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • Instead, I offer a few highlights, the top ten reasons my pregnancy wasn't so awful, followed by a top ten countdown of lowlights (I know that's not a word.)   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • Practice ended with a straight scrimmage—the unquestioned highlight of the afternoon for the boys.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • She did not have her mother but she had Sandra, and their mornings together were a highlight of her week.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • Larry came to see me every week, and I lived for those visits—they were the highlight of my life in Danbury, a chest-filling affirmation of how much I loved him.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • Centerpiece, designed it himself, the highlight of his career.   (source)
  • The highlight of my time there, at least in the first few months, was the story of Mopsy the chicken.   (source)
  • We can recommend MNICD006, MMCD052, and MNICD076 as personal favorites, although other colleagues swear by MNICD037 as a candidate for this year's highlight reel.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • When you're on the field scraping it out, you're not thinking about "style points" or coaches voting or what people on ESPN will say when the highlight reel rolls; you're thinking about winning the game.   (source)
  • It had always been the highlight of their day.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • The highlight of the presentations, however, was Singbe's retelling of their voyage on the Amistad in his native Mende, with James Covey interpreting.   (source)
  • But what was probably the highlight of this meet (for me) was when I was standing on the sidelines and spotted Jenny standing nearby (she was looking right at me), and suddenly I knew the time had come to go and say I'm sorry.   (source)
  • Gloria gave her customers a glass of lemonade and led them through the parlor floor, blinking her eyes in wonderment as she recounted the historical highlights of the house.†   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • "One of the highlights of my sixty-first birthday celebration," President Richard Nixon wrote in 1974, "was when Tricia suggested we needed a 'break' on our drive to Palm Springs, and we turned in at McDonald's.†   (source)
  • Megan calls on my cell and I give her highlights of the game and we talk while I'm waiting for Cohn to finish talking to Mr. Lundstrom.†   (source)
  • One more wrong guess, and she'd show Yoyo, pointing with her pencil to the different highlights of this incredible new wonder.†   (source)
  • Then she comes on in my room, sits on my bed and tells me the highlights of all the Christmases she can remember and she looks up to the corner of the room and I know she was watching all her past presents of dolls and playhouses and mittens dancing on the wall.†   (source)
  • We'd never been to Dallas before, and the next day, we decided to visit the John F. Kennedy memorial, as part of our "Highlights of Texas" tour.†   (source)
  • The highlight of the meeting was the distribution of the jury list, and the judge saved it for last.†   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • Pretend you're a spotlight, Obie told himself, a spotlight sweeping the place, stopping here and there, and lingering at other places, picking up the highlights of the thing, this momentous occasion.†   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • I'm wagering the falcon walk will be one of the highlights of your visit to Ashford, and it's more complete if you see the other hawks and falcons, and learn a bit about them."†   (source)
  • His stories of trading for copra, fights with gangs in pre-Communist Shanghai and, as they both got older, beautiful island maidens, were some of the highlights of Tyler's childhood.†   (source)
  • For him, this was perhaps the highlight of an otherwise bleak existence.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • Whoever puts together the highlights has to choose what sort of story to tell.   (source)
    highlights = things to emphasize as important
  • And senior year is the highlight of your entire high school experience.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • That, she supposed, was the highlight of her career.   (source)
  • And it was a highlight; she wasn't naive about what she'd accomplished.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out as good
  • 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
  • "On time" for us was thirty minutes before school actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking.   (source)
  • Platt — slouched back in his chair —said maliciously: "The highlight of Andy's trip was when we stopped for lunch that time at the snack bar."   (source)
  • Marlee Tames, now an Eight, was caught with a guard undressing her in a closet Monday night after the Halloween Ball that was billed to be the highlight of the Selection programming.   (source)
  • He didn't yet have an impressive highlight reel of game film to pre— cede him, and the folks up in Munford apparently didn't read either the Memphis newspapers or Tom Lemming's newsletter.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • This point was driven home to him the Saturday before the Vikings game, when Bill Walsh called the team into the auditorium for the pleasurable viewing of its past highlights.   (source)
    highlights = best plays
  • Perhaps if he wins the Games, he'll see me on victor's night, when they replay the highlights of the Games on a screen over the stage where we did our interviews.   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • Usually, this is a single, ornate chair from which the winning tribute watches a film of the highlights of the Games, but since there are two of us, the Gamemakers have provided a plush red velvet couch.   (source)
  • None of it was familiar, and for a few hours she'd felt as if she'd suddenly slipped into an alternate universe in which she wasn't a hairdresser in a small southern town, the kind of gal whose highlight of the week was usually something as mundane as removing a stubborn ring from around the tub.   (source)
    highlight = best part
  • It was a sleepy little town, and she surmised that an event like this was probably the highlight of the year.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • The only highlight was Juniper the tree nymph, who screamed, "Grover!" and gave her boyfriend a flying tackle hug, making everybody cheer.   (source)
  • That was one of the most memorable times of my college career, spending time and listening to him reminisce about how he came to attend Georgia and describe some of the highlights of his long and spectacular college and professional football career.   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • They quickly scored three goals—an elegant cross, chested in with highlight-reel grace by a Sudanese forward named Attak, followed by a cannon shot from Christian from ten yards out.   (source)
    highlight = something that stands out
  • The boys brought blankets and sleeping bags and arranged themselves on yoga mats around a TV in an upstairs room at the Y. Luma put on a video of old World Cup highlights and the movie Goal!   (source)
    highlights = best parts
  • Highlights of the Last Two Weeks.†   (source)
    highlights = things that stand out
  • People who lived here largely ignored them unless they became a nuisance, but for many vacationers, seeing them was one of the highlights of their visit.†   (source)
  • One of the highlights for the kids—and thus a draw for the adults—was a maze built out of hay bales.†   (source)
  • And these were just the most memorable highlights of a chaotic and sloppily lived life, one he would have happily traded long ago for something more traditional.†   (source)
  • He and Quince Lundy then spent half an hour hitting the highlights of Seth Hubbard's amazing ten-year journey from the ruins of his second divorce to wealth that no one in Ford County had ever seen.†   (source)
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  • Her photographic portraits tend to minimize the highlights and boost the shadows.
  • 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
  • My face is relatively clear of makeup, just a bit of highlighting here and there.   (source)
    highlighting = emphasizing by making some areas lighter
  • Around his temples, the gray highlights were advancing, making their way deeper into his thicket of coarse black hair.   (source)
    highlights = lighter areas
  • 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
  • The gold griffins gleamed with colored highlights garnered from scores of lanterns.   (source)
    highlights = shining points
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The sandstone around her nose shimmered like gilded dew, turning clear with dancing silver highlights.   (source)
    highlights = lighter areas
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  • She gets blond highlights in the summer.
  • She shook out her hair, with so-red-they-were-pink highlights.   (source)
  • Some girls got things called highlights, and others, like Sosie, had the color changed completely.   (source)
    highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
  • She had done away with the drab ponytails, let her hair grow, and streaked it with red highlights.   (source)
  • Spencer Hastings looked across the table at her mother, Veronica, who nervously ran her hands through her perfectly highlighted ash-blond hair.   (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
  • 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)
  • 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
  • My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess?   (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
  • 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)
  • 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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  • Her hair was a tangled mess of highlighted blonde tresses.   (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
  • 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)
  • What I could do for you with a little highlighting.   (source)
    highlighting = making some strips of hair lighter
  • She was a pretty Asian woman with red highlighted hair tied in a bun.   (source)
    highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
  •   "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
  • 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)
    highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
  • 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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  • What are the most highlighted quotes from the book according to Kindle's e-reader?
    highlighted = marked (important text)
  • She highlighted this quote: "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."
  • 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
  • I stop highlighting midsentence.   (source)
    highlighting = marking important text
  • 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
  • After about ten minutes of searching, the software highlighted a possible match.   (source)
    highlighted = marked (to draw attention)
  • She points out the two highlighted numbers on the bottom of the screen.   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • 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)
  • Mostly I just read the parts she highlighted.   (source)
  • Dad had highlighted a Family Ties marathon for the following Sunday night, using the little slip of paper as a bookmark.   (source)
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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)
  • I think about things she highlighted: "To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • If you go to the end of 'Song of Myself,' she highlights this stuff about dying.   (source)
    highlights = marks as important
  • There must be some code in the highlighted lines or something.   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • "But, I mean, from what she highlighted, it seems kinda like a suicide note," I said.   (source)
  • She flipped back and tapped at the green highlighted quote with her fingernail.   (source)
  • But I also read and reread everything highlighted in blue:   (source)
  • As she did, I told her, "I've been thinking a lot about the highlighted parts."   (source)
  • And there were two lines from the poem that were highlighted in green:   (source)
  • Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.   (source)
  • 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
  • Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago -- passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods -- passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.   (source)
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods -- passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.   (source)
  • Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago -- passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.   (source)
  • In the chapter titled "Higher Laws," in which Thoreau ruminates on the morality of eating, McCandless highlighted, "when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially."   (source)
  • 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)
  • There were several quotes highlighted in blue, all from the epically long poem known as "Song of Myself."   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • Even though I knew the highlighted parts were probably the only important parts, I wanted to know whether it was a suicide-note kind of poem.   (source)
  • I thought of the highlighted Whitman: "If no other in the world be aware I sit content, / And if each and all be aware I sit content."   (source)
  • 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
  • I'd brought Margo's copy of Leaves of Grass to school, and I started reading the highlighted parts of "Song of Myself" again, under the desk while Mr. Jiminez scratched away at the blackboard.   (source)
    highlighted = marked as important
  • All afternoon, I kept feeling like it wasn't doing any good to look at the highlighted quotes, but then I would get bored and reach into my backpack and put the book on my lap and go back to it.   (source)
  • I handed it to Radar after a few minutes, and he looked at it for a while before writing on the corner of his notebook closest to me, The green highlighting must mean something.   (source)
    highlighting = marking of important text
  • 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)
    highlighted = marked as important
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  • Highlight the word and then make it bold.
  • I highlighted that icon and tapped the Fire button.   (source)
    highlighted = selected (on a computer screen)
  • Peter highlighted the text on his computer screen and deleted it.   (source)
    highlighted = selected
  • Blomkvist highlighted all the documents and deleted them.   (source)
    highlighted = selected (on a computer screen)
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  • To add to his appeal, the whites of his eyes were the color of egg yolks and were further highlighted by being permanently bloodshot.†   (source)
  • The clashing only highlighted the silence of the chilly dawn.†   (source)
  • Images of tanks surrounding the CNN building appeared from time to time, apparently highlighting the criticality of CNN to the nation.†   (source)
  • Her simple clothes highlighted her natural grace.†   (source)
  • When one of these robots was highlighted, a detailed list of its stats and weaponry appeared on the screen beside it.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Dutton's debutante party was the only one ever held at the Telfair museum; Vera Strong hired Peter Duchin and his orchestra and commissioned a twelve-foot ice sculpture of the Eiffel Tower to highlight the "April in Paris" theme of the party.†   (source)
  • Most mechanically, Owen helped my reading by another means: he determined that my eyes wandered to both the left and to the right of where I was in a sentence, and that—instead of following the elusive next word with my finger—I should highlight a spot on the page by reading through a hole cut in a piece of paper.†   (source)
  • Some highlights: Maya stopped on a dime and passed the ball back to Tino, who drove it into the goal.†   (source)
  • I scroll down to his number and highlight with a jab of my thumb.†   (source)
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  • Jairo hoped that the right parts were highlighted.†   (source)
  • He lost sight of her for a second or two, then saw her as she crossed the island, highlighted against the darker mass of trees.†   (source)
  • She brings me Disney magazine and Highlights magazine, too.†   (source)
  • I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS," my dad had told me a thousand times.†   (source)
  • The fathers would be huddled at the front, taking turns at the wheel, consulting maps highlighted by AAA.†   (source)
  • And he kind of wanted his mom to give him blond highlights.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the highlight was Natalie on top of the table, doing some kind of dance that made her look like an octopus.†   (source)
  • He looks back at me and the sun is shining straight on him, highlighting every beautiful feature about him.†   (source)
  • Even though I still can't make out his eyes—the moon draws everything starkly, highlighting it in bright, crystalline silver or leaving it in blackness—I have the impression of heat, and light, the same impression I had that day at the labs.†   (source)
  • I thumb through the pages of her medical journals looking for highlighted passages.†   (source)
  • Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights.†   (source)
  • The blue only highlighted the red in her hair.†   (source)
  • He highlights the very last sentence.†   (source)
  • She went through my classes for me, highlighting the best route to each on the map, and gave me a slip to have each teacher sign, which I was to bring back at the end of the day.†   (source)
  • He was a little red fifty-six and the number was always highlighted and circled.†   (source)
  • Her wrist highlighted a zing with exceptionally high ratings.†   (source)
  • The infrared doesn't do much in these circumstances, but the radar picks out all the Weapons, highlights them in The Enforcers' hands, identifies them by make, model, and ammunition type.†   (source)
  • I turned around and saw a shadow highlighted by a fluorescent lamp above his head.†   (source)
  • Ellerby approaches the old Pontiac with reverence, circling slowly, touching the rough, dark gray primed doors and mirrors, peering in under the hood at the engine highlighted by the droplight.†   (source)
  • I believe I can best highlight the difference between the generations by expressing myself figuratively.†   (source)
  • His hand was solid as a rock, and his dark Cealdish complexion was tanned even darker than usual, highlighting a few pale scars that ran over his knuckles and up his arms.†   (source)
  • Noelle Hawthorne, looking like she just got new highlights: "I think he killed her.†   (source)
  • A highlight for me during my residency was the research I did during my fifth year.†   (source)
  • However, Hegel's philosophy was so all-embracing and diversified that for present purposes we shall content ourselves with highlighting some of the main aspects.†   (source)
  • I couldn't imagine where such a tarty picture had been taken until I noticed the Bloomingdale earrings and the Bloomingdale necklace glinting out of it with bright, white highlights, like imitation stars.†   (source)
  • After Mr. Itchoda had tied the obi—a russet and brown highlighted with gold threads—I put the final touches on my makeup and the ornaments in my hair.†   (source)
  • A trim tree Quinn thought might be a dogwood highlighted the left square of front yard.†   (source)
  • Her blond hair was streaked with red highlights —very subtle for a stealth mission.†   (source)
  • The draw curtain also hid a bank of lights that would highlight the gondola mural.†   (source)
  • He was unmistakably good-looking in a boyish kind of way, with a friendly, open smile highlighted by dimples.†   (source)
  • The light highlighted the ruthlessness in his face and created the illusion that his eyes had turned the color of molten silver.†   (source)
  • Light fell through the long windows and splashed in motes and patterns on the plank floor; it caught the auburn highlights in Phoebe's thin braids as she stood before a big wooden bin, scooping lentils, letting them cascade into jars.†   (source)
  • She was fantastically beautiful, with long straight hair so black it looked as if it had blue and purple highlights, like a raven's wing.†   (source)
  • When he pressed his lips together, they turned an unnatural shade of white and highlighted a small scar at the right corner.†   (source)
  • So much happened, it's hard to write it all down, so here are the highlights, in semichronological order: I rode Paprika, first in the paddock, then on the trail.†   (source)
  • The light that shone through the folds of her wing, as well as that cast off in winking highlights from her scales, painted his skin a weird, purplish hue and covered the pages of the book with a smattering of glowing shapes that made it difficult to read the thin, angular runes.†   (source)
  • Highlights and shadows.†   (source)
  • The Netherlands and Sweden highlight the differences between the big-stick approach and the legalize-and-regulate model.†   (source)
  • Adam began by answering questions in a mini-autobiography highlighting the significant events in his life.†   (source)
  • My mother was silent for a long time, my father's voice the only one wafting up through the floor, explaining how he couldn't help it, didn't want to lie anymore, had to come clean, all of this with his booming sportscaster voice, so agile at curving around scores and highlights, stumbling over the simple truth that his marriage was over.†   (source)
  • Then he bent to compare the store-bought GPS unit he balanced on his knee with a military-grade map Mortenson folded to highlight what he thought was our position.†   (source)
  • The local newspapers highlighted the arrests until they grew so commonplace they were no longer a novelty; then they dropped Ira's scrapes with the law into the police log, with the rest of the petty-crime news.†   (source)
  • You know, light highlights and darker bits to create shadow—you could put a light line of foundation down the middle and then darker bits at the sides to sort of narrow it down.†   (source)
  • The darkness beyond gave the landscape an unearthly glow, with the sunlight highlighting the muted colors of the rocks and grasses.†   (source)
  • On it were several highlighted calls.†   (source)
  • The issue du jour involves "rubrics," or how the format of an assignment can favor the strengths of some students and highlight the weaknesses of others or, in any event, how it can stifle creativity.†   (source)
  • The glow spilled onto Toby's angular face, glinting off the rims of his glasses and highlighting his almond-shaped eyes …. which were staring down at me.†   (source)
  • No, it wasn't actually a stutter; it was more of a stammer, slowing down the flow of speech, stressing or highlighting every word he uttered whether he wanted to or not.†   (source)
  • That black line highlighted her eyes, made them catch fire and flash like mirrors.†   (source)
  • I mean it as a compliment, but my annoyance at not having the baseball card on Mia Hall—the stats, highlights, career bests—turns it bitter.†   (source)
  • A lawn wrapped around the dwelling in a thick, uniform carpet of green, highlighted by flowers growing in symmetrical clusters.†   (source)
  • Can you read me the line that's highlighted?†   (source)
  • The highlight had been a group interview with Jerry Ray Mason, a condemned killer whose case they'd studied and who was scheduled to make a final walk to the gas chamber in less than three months.†   (source)
  • For weeks before their trip, the boys went to sleep at night, memorizing words that Cesar highlighted in his copy of the baseball rulebook.†   (source)
  • It was well known throughout the department that those distinguished highlights were added by his personal cosmetician.†   (source)
  • He would mumble about how proud he was of this boy or that boy and what fine parents his momma and daddy were down there in Opp or Enterprise or Sylacauga as the game highlight film played across the screen.†   (source)
  • A handsome black man, tall and athletically built, stood at the railing, his ebony skin highlighted with a brass tint cast by two bare yellow lightbulbs in the porch ceiling.†   (source)
  • And let's not forget that we will now have a flashing police light highlighting our position."†   (source)
  • His skin looked as if it had sparks of fire in it, and the sun played against the red highlights in his body.†   (source)
  • A moment later, a giant scorpion was highlighted from among the many stars twinkling above.†   (source)
  • It was simply something we had to do—the only difference being that my injury was more noticeable and, as such, was highlighted more frequently by opposing coaches, players, and the media.†   (source)
  • Concealer that couldn't hide the dark circles under her eyes, hair dyed a flat brown with faded highlights.†   (source)
  • The lone pool of light looks over-bright and eerie, highlighting contrasts more than illuminating.†   (source)
  • And her hair is long, lightly permed, with golden highlights.†   (source)
  • May I remind you, Mr. McLean, that The Ten does not issue a yearbook highlighting their activities.†   (source)
  • She would mark them up with check marks and highlights.†   (source)
  • The woman didn't seem to accept Mitt, she seemed to sour when she looked upon his round, only half-Korean eyes and the reddish highlights in his hair.†   (source)
  • I fiddle over details, hunch over my pictures, dabbing at the highlights with tiny brushes.†   (source)
  • Highlighted against the rusty orange, the colonel sat down on a canvas chair.†   (source)
  • Firelight glittered off metal helms and spattered their mail and plate with orange and yellow highlights.†   (source)
  • The rain had slowed to a drizzle, and the late afternoon sun came from behind a cloud like a bad joke, illuminating, highlighting the most horrible of moments before receding once again.†   (source)
  • Chiara was staring down at him, her long curly hair, with its auburn and chestnut highlights, tumbling over one shoulder, her angular nose and jaw in semiprofile.†   (source)
  • We made a highlights video, or "sizzle reel;' as it's called in Hollywood, and Gurney pitched it to the networks.†   (source)
  • The system also highlighted that and both informed me and took it into account.†   (source)
  • She had a lip ring and purple highlights, and I could tell without even asking him that Hatton had just fallen madly in love with her.†   (source)
  • Balding on the top, he had stringy hair with sun-blond highlights that reached his rounded shoulders.†   (source)
  • His black flesh picked up dull highlights from the bare globe overhead.†   (source)
  • She blushed suddenly, highlighting her freckles.†   (source)
  • His eyes, below the yellow highlights on his forehead, were steady, small, intent.†   (source)
  • Lee studied the shiny metal under the lamp, shifting the picture this way and that to overcome the highlights.†   (source)
  • He inspected the old slide projector he'd recently repaired with duct tape, to make sure the correct carousel was slotted, patted his pants pocket, checking that the laser pointer he used to highlight the peaks of the Karakoram was in place, and turned to face his audience.†   (source)
  • The final three stanzas of "Song of Myself" were also highlighted.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a sleeveless dress, highlighting her broad shoulders and mannequin arms.†   (source)
  • Then they'd streaked it with blond highlights.†   (source)
  • The sun slanted in across the deep, vivid gray of her eyes, highlighting them as he'd once imagined.†   (source)
  • With a swipe of my thumb and a tap of my finger, I can highlight all the numbers.†   (source)
  • Still, he sent Alan pages, with passages highlighted.†   (source)
  • The woman was having highlights put in, and her head was covered in a perforated plastic cap.†   (source)
  • She ran down today's show highlights, none of which Mike heard.†   (source)
  • She'd highlighted a few passages in pink, the pen lying beside.†   (source)
  • He highlights the last line of his poem.†   (source)
  • Each country was outlined, and one city in each country was highlighted.†   (source)
  • She highlighted the statement by splashing up water.†   (source)
  • Jasper's brow furrowed, highlighting the two scars over his left eye.†   (source)
  • Lights, dim," she ordered and blinked to focus as they highlighted his face.†   (source)
  • Deliriously, I think the color brings out the auburn highlights in his blond hair.†   (source)
  • His face flushed, highlighting the scars that had pretty much healed over.†   (source)
  • He glances back to his computer, highlighting another line.†   (source)
  • Miss Smith highlighted the event with a rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."†   (source)
  • He was handsome and frightened, and the moon highlighted his face like a coin recovered from pitch.†   (source)
  • He moves his mouse and the projector zooms in, highlighting one of the lines of his poem.†   (source)
  • As my eyes adjusted, I could see the diffused glow highlighting the tops of the trees, and glinting off a small slice of the river.†   (source)
  • The soft glow lit up her supple hair and highlighted her white neck above the collar of her overalls, as though a single flower was blooming in a metal ruin after a violent thunderstorm….†   (source)
  • But for all that, it is still satisfying to be able to point to instances in one's career that highlight very clearly how wrong such people are.†   (source)
  • One other highlight: Candy gave birth to our first son, Murray Nedlands Carson (Nedlands was the suburb where we lived), on September 12,1983.†   (source)
  • A baseball hypercard could contain a highlight film of the player in action, shown in perfect high-def television; a complete biography, read by the player himself, in stereo digital sound; and a complete statistical database along with specialized software to help you look up the numbers you want.†   (source)
  • She'd followed it up with a book highlighting a small town in Louisiana where the descendent of a voodoo priestess served as mayor and faith healer.†   (source)
  • I can maybe pull off five-three on a good day and my flat brown hair could use a trim—maybe even some highlights.†   (source)
  • The librarian recited a list of Savannah's historic highlights: America's first Sunday school had been founded in Savannah in 1736, America's first orphanage in 1740, America's first black Baptist congregation in 1788, America's first golf course in 1796.†   (source)
  • When he was eight years old he'd seen a highlight film of Lawrence Taylor and right then and there knew who he was going to be when he grew up.†   (source)
  • And I can't pretend to know how you feel about all of us, but I know that you and I aren't exactly a highlight right now."†   (source)
  • Her eyes in fact were dry, and they lowered fractionally to take in the vase, then she pushed on past, to where the easel stood supporting the poster with the merry, multicolored title, and a Chagall-like montage of highlights from her play in watercolor scattered around the lettering—the tearful parents waving, the moonlit ride to the coast, the heroine on her sickbed, a wedding.†   (source)
  • In addition to highlighting the negative effects of progress, we'll also attempt to use a series of 'miracles' to construct an illusory universe that cannot be explained by the logic of science.†   (source)
  • The hall was kept entirely unlit, to best highlight the electric-blue aquariums and the fog-white creatures within.†   (source)
  • You can zing, you could comment on and rate and highlight any product, but can you translate all this into action?†   (source)
  • He was crossing the wide green lawn, passing the new sculpture by that Chinese dissident—she remembered she should highlight it soon, maybe even today—and just then he turned briefly, as if checking to see if Mae was still following.†   (source)
  • It also gave her current watcher numbers, her rankings and ratings, and highlighted the. most recent and most popular comments from viewers.†   (source)
  • Every word they read, every word they looked up, every sentence they highlighted, every equation they wrote, every answer and correction.†   (source)
  • Most seemed to be holding the same brochure that Doris had sent Jeremy and were reading aloud from the captions highlighting the unique properties of the building.†   (source)
  • Twice a day–or rather twice a night, as he never took me when the others were about–I got to walk to the room with the rivers; it was a highlight, despite the terror, as it was the only time I was not hunched into the unnatural shapes my small cave forced on me.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger smoked and thought of how it had been -the nights in the huge central hall, hundreds of richly clad figures moving through the slow, steady waltz steps or the faster, light ripples of the pol-kam, Aileen on his arm, her eyes brighter than the most precious gems, the light of the crystal-enclosed electric lights making highlights in the newly done hair of the courtesans and their half-cynical amours.†   (source)
  • I was sure Osten had made better stick figures as a child, but since this show seemed to either be highlighting their strengths in a ludicrous way or shrugging off their weaknesses as comedy, it ended up being quite charming.†   (source)
  • …the clothes I wore on the plane before I changed into my mandarin dress; a Game Boy loaded with Tetris; the latest Dan Brown (because you can't go on a transatlantic flight with nothing to read); my mini iPod; three book lights; Sun-In for my highlights; all of my pharmaceuticals, such as aspirin, Band-Aids for the blisters I am undoubtedly going to get (from strolling hand in hand with Andrew through the British Museum, soaking in all the art), and prescriptions, including my birth…†   (source)
  • The kind of woman whose strengths were her constant selfmaintenance (pedicures, manicures, hair highlights), knowing everything you never wanted to about hemlines and shoes, and sending entirely too chatty e-mails to people who couldn't care less.†   (source)
  • Strewn across the benches were old magazines: Highlights for Children, Autumn, 20 B.C.E.; Hephaestus-TV Weekly—Aphrodite's Latest Baby Bump; A: The Magazine of Asclepius—Ten Simple Tips to Get the Most out of Your Leeching!†   (source)
  • Samirah demonstrates the seven heroic qualities I'll be highlighting in my upcoming book, Seven Heroic Qualities, which will be available in the Valhalla gift shop."†   (source)
  • The notes should be a guide to reading the thick textbook, highlighting only the sections with ideas mentioned in class.†   (source)
  • If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was.†   (source)
  • The brightness of the unclouded sky seemed to join forces with her mother as it highlighted every broken stoop railing and missing brick.†   (source)
  • I also got a supply of hair dye, a comfortable pair of jeans, a cotton top in desert camouflage colors, and a headscarf that was probably all the rage with Egyptian women, but which I decided not to wear, as it would probably clash with the new purple highlights I wanted for my hair.†   (source)
  • It had been highlighted with several mottled tan shades and now it looked exactly like a hawk's plumage.†   (source)
  • A strand of hair slipped from her ponytail and fell across her face, very dark with reddish highlights, and he remembered how soft it had been when he touched it as she slept, soft and warm, and he resisted an urge to reach over and brush it behind her ear.†   (source)
  • This was his newest piece so here he was going uptown on the Washington Heights local, every car tagged with his own neon zoom, with highlights and overlapping letters and 3-D effect, the whole wildstyle thing of making your name and street number a kind of alphabet city where the colors lock and bleed and the letters connect and it's all live jive, it jumps and shouts—even the drips are intentional, painted supersharp to express how the letters sweat, how they live and breathe and eat…†   (source)
  • The slack-faced, highlighted zombies stared at me, trying on different expressions of concern and self-righteousness they'd memorized from reality shows.†   (source)
  • It's also a time for the skipper, at the time Captain Pete Van Hooser, to address the entire team, sometimes giving out awards or highlighting "a dumb new-guy mistake," says Austin, who stood beside Adam that day.†   (source)
  • Robby would often dress up, before we headed next door, in his little Western outfit with fake six-shooter and holster, especially for those movie times where a Western would be the highlight show at Uncle Dick's.†   (source)
  • I'd wanted to avoid the interstate—people drove too fast—and I'd highlighted the route heavy with single-lane highways on a map I'd found in the kitchen drawer.†   (source)
  • "And while we permit our beloved Course analysts a few more minutes to put the finishing touches on their highlights reel"— here the older students groaned—"I'd like to dedicate this moment to Rowan's annual awards.†   (source)
  • Gold highlights gleamed from inlay and fastenings like distant fires in that wood, winking every time he moved.†   (source)
  • The morning sun caresses his hair, highlighting strands of mahogany and honey hidden among the black.†   (source)
  • We highlight Camfed partly because we believe an international women's movement needs to focus less on holding conventions or lobbying for new laws, and more time in places like rural Zimbabwe, listening to communities and helping them get their girls into schools.†   (source)
  • A faint reddish glow highlighted the dark figures in front of me, and all I wanted in that moment was the chance to sink my teeth into them, to rip their limbs from their bodies and pile them for burning.†   (source)
  • When she printed it, Bryan would be merciless with the lines and creases in the grandmother's face, just as she'd highlight the flawlessness of the toddler's skin.†   (source)
  • …have been dozens of stories about her over the years highlighting her personal commitment to her family.†   (source)
  • There is still a hint of golden highlights in the snowy feathers, but some of the feathers are broken and sticking out at odd angles.†   (source)
  • Fang didn't follow, though when I glanced back I saw his tall, lean form standing in the cave entrance, highlighted by the fire.†   (source)
  • JAN. 8—A highlight at the CAB hearing yesterday was a report that the stewardess on the C-46 that crashed on Dec. 16 had telephoned her sister just five minutes before the plane took off, telling her that the plane was "unfit to fly."†   (source)
  • Highlights include Kerwin Bell's leading Florida to eighteen fourth-quarter points to erase a seventeen-point deficit and beat unbeaten number four Auburn, 18-17, in 1986 (note: every Gator fan in the western hemisphere claims to have been at Florida Field for that game—just ask one), or Steve Spurrier clinching the Heisman Trophy with a field goal to beat Auburn in 1966, and plenty of other Auburn–Florida moments as well.†   (source)
  • It had looked so different then, with the August sun highlighting the browns and reds of the bricks and the young children bouncing their rubber balls against its side.†   (source)
  • The leggy woman begins reciting Cedric's criminal history and various incarcerations, highlights from the forearm-thick folder, or "jacket," on inmate 158706.†   (source)
  • From this distance a sand trap looked like a big open scar on the smooth face of the green and the moon gave a weird yellow half-light that made the whole night a two-tone picture of highlights and hollows.†   (source)
  • 22 19 Extensive parallels in the structure of The Iliad are highlighted in Cedric Whitman, Homer and the Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.†   (source)
  • As Book III opens, the two armies have been brought on stage and the chief Greeks are highlighted in the teikhoskopia: we are prepared for a great clash that will make Agamemnon regret the absence of Akhilleus.†   (source)
  • Different as it is, the new story draws on implications of the old; it adds cosmological depth to "the will of Zeus" that drives the action of the poem, and it is told in a (moment between mother and son that highlights Akhilleus' tragic destiny: he will indeed excel his father, for no warrior at Troy was greater; but he will assuredly die, and not all his greatness and half-divine descent can fend off the destiny laid on him before his birth.†   (source)
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