HEIGHTEN in a Sentence
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40 example sentences for HEIGHTEN, such as:
1. Day by day the structure heightened.
2. The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play.
3. The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
4. This action worried others because it might heighten political instability.
5. Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
2. The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play.
3. The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
4. This action worried others because it might heighten political instability.
5. Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HEIGHTEN
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heighten
v. make (one's senses) more acute
v. become more extreme
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
2 The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and, to heighten the matter, I found her alone.
3 This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
4 Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
5 They became more and more numerous as the weeks went by and as the tension in town heightened over negro outrages.
6 At this picture of loveliness in distress, the pathos of which was heightened by the light touch with which it was drawn, a murmur of indignant sympathy broke from Trenor.
7 This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
8 In the present instance, too, this dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
9 The awful effect was heightened by the piercing shrieks of the women and the fierce yells of the warriors.
10 Exercise had given a brilliant hue to her cheeks, and heightened the effect of her singularly transparent skin, and golden hair.
11 "You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns," said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
12 Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
13 While she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy, with a heightened complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes.
14 She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held.
15 The effect was also further heightened by the manner in which, at such moments, he assumed the most portentous frown.
Example Sentence:
1 This action worried others because it might heighten political instability.
2 This latest attack has greatly heightened fears of an all-out war.
3 The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play.
4 The stepped-up Republican attack against Mr Rubin only heightened investors' concern over the budget stalemate in Washington.
5 Day by day the structure heightened.
6 The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
7 Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.