How to Use bright spot in a Sentence

bright spot

noun
  • The broken turbine is a major setback to the project, which had been seen as a bright spot for the struggling US offshore wind industry.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • The only bright spot is that day was not [Drea’s] last day.
    Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • Put the jar in a bright spot and refresh the water, rinsing out the jar, once a week.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
  • Adell, 25, has been a bright spot for the Angels this season.
    Kyle Glaser, Orange County Register, 11 May 2024
  • Lauren Goode: Trying to find the bright spot here, Mike.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There’s now at least one bright spot in the ongoing FTX saga.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
  • These names could be a bright spot in the broader market after a rough week.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • This cool and creamy, no-bake pie will be a bright spot on your Easter table.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Shame, too, because Bam Adebayo has been such a bright spot.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Even so, Spain seemed in recent years to be a bright spot for liberals.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Yellowstone fans have had a lot to talk about this year, but one bright spot is the network premiere of the 1883 spinoff.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 25 June 2023
  • One bright spot: Reggie Wayne had 9 catches for 135 yards.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The last of those was by James Stefan, who completed a hat trick with the goal, as the Winterhawks’ main bright spot.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Through all of the economic woes, Turkey’s stock market has been a rare bright spot.
    Scott McLean, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • TikTok did have one bright spot in the Pew survey results: Support for a ban dropped among adults.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Sometimes that player is the bright spot on a bad team — not a star but someone who performed when no one else would.
    Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Point guard Nick Honor rose to the occasion, providing a bright spot in a 19-point loss.
    Jaden Lewis, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Punter Thomas Morstead was a bright spot getting his punts down inside the opponents’ 20-yard line.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Heart disease should be a bright spot in this black hole of medical research.
    Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • For his son, a student at Bowling Green, Thomas represents the lone bright spot in years of losing.
    Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Win or lose, the Liberty have become the singular bright spot in the bleak landscape of New York City’s sports teams.
    Claire Fahy, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The vehicles segment, which includes Hot Wheels, was a bright spot.
    Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • With interest rates soaring, USDC has proved to be a bright spot amid the bear market.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Feb. 2023
  • One bright spot in the report was that cancer deaths continued to decrease.
    Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Having the option to freeze embryos can be the only bright spot during one of the toughest times of their life, doctors say.
    Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • In contrast, Disney’s parks and cruise business has been a bright spot, in many ways propping up the whole company.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Such attacks have been a rare bright spot in a disappointing year for Ukraine with no frontline breakthrough on the ground.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In another bright spot, the Black unemployment rate fell to 5 percent in March, a record low.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Its economic growth of about 6 percent a year is also a global bright spot.
    Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Freshman outfielder Gavin Turley was a bright spot in the opener, going 1 for 3 with a walk and a solo home run.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023

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