Give him a name, Adam, and it may somewhat lighten your load.

I mean signs to tell us your father may be wishing his burden lightened somewhat?

Even Kazan's mood lightened somewhat, although he would not look at me.

Garth was glad that the mood seemed to be lightened somewhat.

The technician heeded the instruction, and the image lightened somewhat.

While I had stood frozen in doubt, the tunnel ahead had lightened somewhat.

Ben, his load somewhat lightened, had returned to the land of the living and was chattering happily.

"Exactly," Rondl agreed, feeling his own suppressed grief lighten somewhat.

It was not until considerably later that the storm slowed to a steady drizzle and the sky began to lighten somewhat.

The man's face wore a grim, sober expression, lightened somewhat by a hint of ironic amusement.