Meaning of the limelight in English
(Definition of the limelight from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
limelight | American Dictionary
Examples of the limelight
the limelight
One would hardly expect otherwise as the book was thrust into the national limelight.
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English language learners came into the limelight since they, too, must be accounted for in these tests.
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This may be what pushes the mystic into the limelight, whether she seeks it or not.
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Some, no doubt, felt that he would do better to stick to exploration than embarking on this new career in the limelight.
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There are dancers, however, who love the limelight and project a visible public image.
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A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight.
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He was naturally shy and reserved and avoided the limelight, sometimes at considerable cost.
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This again confirms that it was during the period from 1918 to the late 1920s that psychoanalysis was most constantly in the public limelight.
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It came into the limelight in the early 2000s.
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Circumpolar cooperation has brought the concerns and needs of indigenous peoples into the international limelight.
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Now that the media limelight has dimmed and the pressure to produce dramatic results has abated, we can hope for some rational progress.
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Nowadays, they are in the limelight.
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Jumping genes hop into the evolutionary limelight.
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Frequently thwarted and elbowed out of the limelight as they were by these same media, historians often found it difficult to gain a hearing with public opinion.
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Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight.
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