Lightening Sentence Examples

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  • My attempt at lightening the situation fell on deaf ears.

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  • Purple lightening rippled in the air nearby.

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  • These measures Nerva supplemented by others which aimed at lightening the financial burdens on the declining industry of Italy.

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  • Their earliest records, 1983's Kill 'Em All and 1984's Ride the Lightening, laid the groundwork for their colossal rise.

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  • Check to see if there is any lightening of the finish, or the "ghost" of a different pull.

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  • Chapters include semipermanent hair coloring, white and gray hair, theory of lightening, dye removers and more.

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  • Folk lore says that the stone was found after a lightening strike hit the ground.

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  • They also do wonders for depth perception on top of lightening and darkening based on where you are.

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  • The lenses react to UV light, darkening in brighter light, and lightening as the brightness diminishes.

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  • The professional product line includes five brands of permanent hair color, four brands of semi-permanent hair color, lightening paste, powder lightener, and a variety of developers and color essentials.

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  • The morning was cool, the sky lightening.

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  • For this reason, their practice should be energetic, warming, lightening, and stimulating, providing they are physically capable.

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  • Bleach brush variants erase to white, gradually lightening by removing color.

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  • As for skin lightening or whitening, there are many products out there one can try. however, at risks to one's health.

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  • Rumors claim that he had numerous facelifts, nose jobs, skin lightening treatments and more.

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  • Lightening or darkening of the skin may occur along with increased hair growth or loss of hair.

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  • The urge to urinate increases during the final stage of pregnancy and it is a sign that lightening has occurred.

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  • Once you know how much time you need to achieve the right color, apply the lightening solution to the hair all over using the plastic brush applicator and rubbing it in evenly.

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  • A salon professional will be able to employ a few tricks that will allow for a more natural looking lightening effect, but unless you can boast professional experience or credentials, it is best not to strain your strands.

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  • For an even more extreme look, consider lightening the entire bang, while adding rich lowlights through the sides and the back of the hair.

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  • A professional colorist will be able to apply the correct lightening formula that will work with your hair and its current state while lifting it to the desired level of intensity.

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  • Chemical services such as perms and relaxers contain a small amount of peroxide, which may cause unwanted lightening of the hair.

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  • The Redken hair color chart includes shades for permanent, demi permanent, gray coverage, and lightening effects.

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  • The new position may increase the urge to urinate as the baby presses against the bladder.The problem with lightening as a sign that labor is starting is that the symptom varies from one woman to the next.

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  • Lightening occurs when the baby descends into the pelvis.

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  • If you find that you have more room in your ribcage, indicated by being able to take deeper breaths, lightening may have occurred.

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  • Lightening can strike even during a simple rain storm, so when you see the sky begin to cloud up it's time for everyone to get out of the water.

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  • Lightening is drawn to the water, and you stand a better than average chance of being electrocuted.

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  • Greeks believed pearls were created when lightening struck the sea and that the jewels were magical.

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  • Lightening creams, ointments and topical treatments may help fade the look and appearance of an old tattoo.

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  • Creams designed to lighten or bleach skin tone may have a lightening affect on some colors of tattoo ink.

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  • Lightening - Get woken up by lightening!

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  • Occurrences that are commonly covered within a basic policy include fire damage and damage caused by lightening.

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  • If you choose to purchase insurance from them, you can expect to have the options of receiving coverage for fire, lightening, theft, hail, vandalism, and explosion just to name a few.

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  • Neo Network is the network developed by Morpheus for its users, and it has been receiving rave reviews from users and experts alike for its fast searches, reliable results, and lightening fast download speeds.

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  • Eminem has never been one to shy away from controversy in his songs, which has made him a lightening rod for criticism.

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  • Despite the popularity of the song, the lyrics to Tik Tok were also a lightening rod for controversy from people who found them everything from too crass, to too dirty or just plain too silly.

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  • Throughout its time on the air, Fear Factor was a lightening rod for controversy.

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  • The show is not without its detractors - it has been a lightening rod for criticism - but it has also been a ratings winner for the network.

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  • In between, viewers get a taste of what happens when average high school students are forced to grow up at lightening speed.

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  • Although billed as a showcase of tough female law enforcement officers, not everyone saw the program that way and it became a lightening rod for criticism.

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  • In particular, Jon soon became a lightening rod for negative press attention.

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  • It produces slight lightening of the skin and scaling that is in line with typical symptoms of eczema.

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  • Fading cleansers in black skin care product lines to reduce skin discoloration usually have ingredients with lightening agents (sometimes citrus-based).

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  • In general, the cleanser works as well as any to cleanse the skin, but using them alone will not make a noticeable difference in lightening dark spots, unless the cleansers are medicated.

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  • Fading creams work by chemically lightening the skin.

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  • Various skin lightening agents, usually citrus-based, are used.

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  • Black Opal has a stronger product for lightening the skin, called Black Opal Essential Fade complex.

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  • Since exfoliated skin looks lighter anyway, this combined with the lemon should have a lightening and brightening effect.

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  • Those who drink lemon juice for skin lightening purposes will squeeze a whole lemon, add water and honey or maple syrup, and drink either at once or throughout the day.

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  • While individual results vary, cocoa butter is a universally effective treatment for gradually lightening stretch marks.

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  • Next up are the weaknesses, which include there are no anti-acne or skin lightening products, and that the toner and scrub can irritate skin.

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  • Then she turned toward him and with a lightening swing slapped Dean across the face with a force that shocked him cold.

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  • Purple lightening sizzled past her towards Xander.

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  • The Original Other looked at her and raised his hand, lightening forming in his palm.

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  • Instinctively, he blocked another strike of lightening while absorbing a second.

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  • The air was filled with electricity and the battlefield a mix of red fog and purple lightening.

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  • Relying solely on his mortal senses, the Other unleashed a bolt of purple lightening.

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  • Much advantage arises from the steam working of bastard fallows in summer, and after harvest a considerable amount of autumn cultivation can be done by steam power, thus materially lightening the work in the succeeding spring.

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  • It may well be that that operation must be regarded as done in the interest simply of the bullion itself, but that the subsequent operations of lightening the ship and floating her can only be properly regarded as undertaken in the common interest of ship, hemp, grain and freight.

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  • In these circumstances, the " Landtmanna " party in the Riksdag, who desired the lightening of the military burden, joined those who desired the abolition of landlordism, and formed a compact and predominant majority in the Second Chamber, while the burgher and Liberal parties were reduced to an impotent " intelligence " minority.

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  • He desired that it should be applied to a fund for insurance and old age pensions for workmen and old people, to the lightening of the municipal taxes by state contributions to the schools and workhouses, to the abolition of the land taxes and of the obligation of keeping a horse and man for military service, and, lastly, to the improvement of the shipping trade; but the Riksdag decided to devote it to other objects, such as the payment of the deficit in the budget, the building of railways and augmentation of their material, as well as to improvements in the defences of the country.

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  • He looked askance at all projects for the emancipation of the serfs, but, as one of the largest landowners of Denmark, he did much service to agriculture by lightening the burdens of the countrymen and introducing technical and scientific improvements which greatly increased production.

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  • The marriage, only accepted by Wilhelmina under threats from her father and with a view to lightening her brother's disgrace, proved at the outset a happy one, though it was clouded at first by narrow means, and afterwards by the infidelities of the future margrave with Dorothea von Marwitz, whose ascendancy at the court of Baireuth was bitterly resented by Frederick the Great, and caused an estrangement of some three years between Wilhelmina and the brother she so devotedly loved.

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  • Darian blocked lightening aimed at the vampire, who disappeared once more into the shadows.

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  • Is this what he means by a " lightening bolt "?

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  • This helps prolong the mood lightening effect of any released noradrenaline and serotonin.

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  • Annakin (Jake Lloyd) is a young boy who has an aptitude for pod racing and possesses lightening quick reflexes.

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  • This helps prolong the mood lightening effect of any released serotonin.

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  • These include kick, lightening strike, weapon strip frying pan to the head and penalty box.

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  • I spoke too soon, as I'm writing this the heaven's have opened and there's some rumbling thunder and sheet lightening.

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  • Virginia converts to Catholicism and finds it a lightening, revivifying process; she also makes a good friend in Guy's uncle Peregrine.

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  • Harriet and her three aunts must move like greased lightening if they 're to get on the trail of the slippery cattle thieves.

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  • I spoke too soon, as I 'm writing this the heaven 's have opened and there 's some rumbling thunder and sheet lightening.

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  • A thunder cloud passing over, caused the leaf gold to strike the sides of the glass very quick at each flash of lightening.

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  • If you want to give lemon juice a try for lightening your skin, be prepared to stick to the regiment for several days to begin to see results.

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  • Try this face mask to help moisturize the skin while lightening your freckles.

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  • For example, powders that contain high titanium dioxide or other skin lightening ingredients?

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  • Cosmetics are one area in which a dizzying array of chemicals are used in the hope of plumping, smoothing, lightening and moisturizing the skin.

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  • Because this type of color does not contain ammonia, no lightening effect can be achieved.

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  • These subtly lightening shampoos will help the color last longer, keeping the style fresh and exhilarating for weeks.

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  • Therefore, the lightening process will render heavily orange and red tones.

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  • Asian, Latin, or thick types of dark hair can never achieve natural blonde highlights without the provision of an all-over lightening base color.

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  • In Thailand, Simpson and her friends experience local cuisine (fried bugs), a ride on an elephant, a painful Thai massage and explored the cultural trend of skin lightening.

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  • At the beginning of the film, two nude men appeared in alternate areas of the city in a spray of lightening and wind.

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  • The tale of a man creating a monster from the body parts of the dead and using lightening to "give it life" mixes science, horror and speculation in equal measure with philosophical argument.

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  • In addition, we offer articles on specific treatments, such as facials, spa treatments, skin lightening, and microdermabrasion.

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  • The system of the catasto, which led to abuses, was abolished, and a progressive income-tax (decima scalata) was introduced with the object of lightening the burdens of the poor, who were as a rule Medicean, at the expense of the rich; but as it was frequently increased the whole community came to be oppressed by it in the end.

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  • Men her size hurled strange purple lightening towards Darian.

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  • With astonishing agility, the Grey God outmaneuvered lightening, weaving through the bursts of purple fire in a lethal dance.

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  • The air around her crackled, Jonny's stormy power and the Other's cold lightening making her skin crawl.

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  • He snatched her arm hard, and lightening flashed through her, making her nauseous.

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  • It rippled with lightening and spread fast, soon blocking the moon before it rolled outward in every direction.

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  • Without seeing the form clearly, she did see the purple lightening start to form in the hands of the Original Other.

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  • Lightening exploded between him and his dinner, knocking him back.

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  • The last memory she had was of purple lightening, a cold, dark place and the damned Other, none of which explained how she ended up here.

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  • The new Egyptian army was so far improved that it gained successes over the forces of the Mahdi; the burden of the national debt was lightened by a successful conversion; the corve was abolished; 1 the land tax was reduced 30% in the poorest provinces, and in spite of this and other measures for lightening the public burdens, the budgetary surplus constantly increased; the quasi-judicial special commissions for brigandage, which were at once barbarous and inefficient, were abolished; the native tribunals were improved, and Mr (afterwards Sir John) Scott, an Indian judge of great experience and sound judgment, was appointed judicial adviser to the khedive.

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  • Rule Vi I I.-Expenses Of Lightening A Ship When Ashore, And Consequent Damage When a ship is ashore, and, in order to float her, cargo, bunker coals and ship's stores, or any of them, are discharged, the extra cost of lightening, lighter hire, and reshipping (if incurred), and the loss or damage sustained thereby, shall be admitted as G.A.

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  • Lightening arced from the Original Other towards the necklace.

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  • Before she registered lightening coming towards them, he had blocked it.

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  • Frederick William's accession to the throne (August 17, 1786) was, indeed, followed by a series of measures for lightening the burdens of the people, reforming the oppressive French system of tax-collecting introduced by Frederick, and encouraging trade by the diminution of customs dues and the making of roads and canals.

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  • An armistice was made for fourteen weeks, which left the British fleet free to proceed up the Baltic. On the 12th of April, after lightening the three-deckers of their guns, the fleet passed over the shallows.

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  • In 1664 he resigned office under Duke Ernest, who had just made him chancellor and with whom he continued on excellent terms, and entered the service of Duke Maurice of Zeitz (Altenburg), with the view of lightening his official duties.

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  • The room lit up with a bright flash of lightening, and thunder rattled the windowpane.

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  • Suddenly a flash of lightening illuminat­ed the crouched figure of Cynthia Byrne several yards away.

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  • Pushing the moment to the recesses of her mind where she could cherish it another time, she smiled up at him, lightening to his mood.

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  • Immediately lightening blazed a trail through the dark sky.

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  • Lightening flashed in the east and thunder rumbled a posthumous threat.

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  • Thunder echoed in the distance and lightening flashed.

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