How To Use Lighten up In A Sentence
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Oh, lighten up! I was only joking!
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When someone was talking about something deep or intense he would joke around to lighten up the mood.
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The wonderful thing about football is that you can always find something to lighten up your day - even when you've got no leg room, a restricted view and are watching a rubbish game at Oldham.
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Blue plants generally lighten up the planting, giving it a fresh, airy feel.
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Let her hair down and lighten up.
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Hey, lighten up! It's only a game, you know!
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In that month and into October, this plant from the Orient will lighten up a partly shaded area of my rock garden, its graceful stems cascading over a rock.
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I thought I'd slip in a few jokes to lighten up the talk.
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All too often I hear that people ‘just need to lighten up’ or ‘if it offends them, they shouldn't read it.’
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He smiles as if he's cracked some joke in order to lighten up the mood.
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Oh, lighten up! I was only joking!
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As she played, she watched the yard lighten up gradually.
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Sport was a bit dense; I would have dropped in a fact box to lighten up the pages.
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Come on, lighten up! It was only a joke.
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Sport was a bit dense; I would have dropped in a fact box to lighten up the pages.
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Wild knows how to lighten up and he does it with the digital mastery and temperament he has exhibited for many decades.
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If you conclude the shorts have a good case, sell or lighten up.
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Even in serious times like these, they had the strength to joke around and lighten up the air a bit.
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As usual, there was a large group of rowdy sailors surrounding the table, which actually helped to lighten up the heavy atmosphere.
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Anyone else think accountants need to lighten up a bit?
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Was Tom right to take the matter so seriously, or should he lighten up a little?
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If you need a quick gag to lighten up your day and the thought of people with glasses getting rubber balls mashed into their skulls amuses you I thoroughly recommend this flick as it delivers the ridiculous comedic goods.
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These moneygrubbers may lighten up our breakfast reading, but they give divorce a bad name.
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In the dream, you prefer this way of dressing, but perhaps it is time to lighten up a bit, put on a costume, and enjoy some clownish fun.
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It might be easier if I could lighten up, get with the festivities, exult in the magic of it all, or even goof on the absurd lengths to which we'll go to entertain ourselves during January in Minnesota.
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Lighten up on the guy. He only stepped on your toe.
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Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this.
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But Dad, he seriously needs to lighten up, maybe get a girlfriend or something.
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Sooooo "the girl" ends up doing them, and she gets cast into the role of the mother/nag for caring about housework, while he's the cool guy who doesn't "overreact" and also doesn't have to do the housework, and he can just say she should lighten up.
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Oh, lighten up! I was only joking!
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Perhaps the next thing he should try is to lighten up a bit.
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Using a lotion on the affected area will help the skin soften and lighten up.
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Gomes said Atlantic City, which is being thrashed by out-of-state casinos, needs to lighten up.
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Once he was gone, I felt the atmosphere lighten up and Coach nodded in satisfaction and left too.
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Dogmatic people tend to be dogmatic about everything, whereas Catholic Faith says ‘Be dogmatic about the dogmatic truths of the Faith, but for the rest of life: Lighten up, bub!’
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It was one way to lighten up the patients in the hospital, kibitz a little bit.
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It ought to cause even the sour of spirit (guilty as charged) to lighten up.
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Let her hair down and lighten up.
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I thought the combination of the big, oversized jackets with the kind of sexy little rouched velvet and chiffon was a lovely mixture, kind of Burberry outerwear with sex appeal that you'd want to lighten up.
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Does a military man take into cognizance the fact that it's a day of prayer and we should lighten up?
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Bones for the Pudding Bobbin chair, $1,975, hollywoodathome.com To lighten up the upholstery's denseness — or "puddingness," as Mr. Dunham calls it — he introduced the wooden and rush furniture.
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Sometimes a laugh is OK, though, so lighten up, and enjoy the joke!
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He had all but forgotten what a smile was until he saw Maria give him one of hers, how it seemed to lighten up her face and spirit.
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If you want to lighten up or brighten up one side of a portrait, the white-sided reflector also works well.
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With these expert tips, you can lighten up your look by moving from winter's thick moisturizers and heavy foundations to dewy complexions and no-hassle hair and makeup.
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Blue plants generally lighten up the planting, giving it a fresh, airy feel.
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Perhaps the next thing he should try is to lighten up a bit.
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Sport was a bit dense; I would have dropped in a fact box to lighten up the pages.
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Blue plants generally lighten up the planting, giving it a fresh, airy feel.
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If you want to drop a load of emotional baggage and experience some psychic weight loss, Gemini time makes it easy to lighten up.
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Sport was a bit dense; I would have dropped in a fact box to lighten up the pages.
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As a kid it was a trick to add some ginger ale to lighten up the flavour.
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Now, he smiled when he saw her eyes lighten up a bit and her head raise.
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As it turned out we had been booked as comic relief to try and lighten up the turgidly dull atmosphere in studio 1.
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Is this normal, or should I ask her to lighten up?
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Anyone else think accountants need to lighten up a bit?
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I guess they were trying to lighten up the atmosphere… or something like that.