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Lighter in sentence

188 examples of Lighter in a sentence

You respond by handing them a lighter, gathering that their motivation is to light their cigarette.
This principle has long dictated the shape of our buildings, leading ancient architects to favor pyramids with wide foundations that support lighter upper levels.
And then we look over the body and we find an old cigarette lighter and we say, "Jesus, it was dark."
So, it's lighter, it's cheaper, and it's stronger.
Searching your pockets, you find something that might help: a lighter and two fuses you made earlier in the prison work program.
How can you use the fuses and lighter to time exactly 45 seconds?
And as the rhythms and the tunes unfolded, our spirits would rise, our moods would be lighter, and we would be rejuvenated.
Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water.
So there's huge leverage for making the car a lot lighter.
Nuclear reactions take lighter elements and transform them into heavier ones, and that causes stars to shine and ultimately explode, therefore enriching the universe with these heavy elements.
They were built as shells— thin-walled but strong, and much lighter than the Roman ships.
The lighter the boat, the more versatile it would be and the less investment of resources it would require— an essential advantage in a decentralized culture without large supplies of people.
The reason why we're using this as part of that shell structure is that we only need to solidify certain parts, which means we have to bring less binder from Earth, and it becomes much lighter.
This, on a lighter note, is at George Lucas' personal archive.
It means I can take two identical squares, put them in light and dark surrounds, and the one on the dark surround looks lighter than on the light surround.
The lighter the object, the less radiation.
I have a lighter in my pocket if you need one.
I hope I have a lighter.
You can use the lighter to start the fire.
And generally arrive about 30 pounds lighter at the other end.
As the surface of the ocean gets warmer, the water is lighter when it's warmer, it becomes harder and harder to turn the ocean over.
It's lighter than an iPad, it's a bit cheaper.
He is his usual self in this one, maybe a bit lighter hearted than in the others; the rest of the cast is good if your watching a movie of the week on T.V. - the whole film has the production value of a bad episode of the A-Team and I like the escapism fun of a show like the A-Team but not on the big screen, even if it is an action movie that doesn't claim to be anything to sophisticated.
There never seems to be any lighter moments or happiness of any kind.
Bruno realises that Guy won't do his murder, so he decides to plant the evidence at the crime scene to make him guilty, Guy's monogrammed cigarette lighter at the amusement park.
Stott excels again as the detestable Chance, while Liv Tyler truly beats her other, lighter performances as the excitement-hungry Rebecca!
My favorite scene was his obsession about getting the lighter from the drain (how exactly does he get his arm down there though?)
It is a most touching work of art, weaving the serious, serene, and lighter sides of life for this family.
movie is lighter in tone than the 1st 2,making it easier to watch.there's
In my analysis of "Trois couleurs: Blanc" I wrote that its tone is much lighter than the tone of "Trois couleurs: Bleu".
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