How to Use sunlight in a Sentence

sunlight

noun
  • Sunlight streamed through the windows.
  • Demchenko leads the class up the long flight of stairs to the street — and sunlight.
    — Claire Harbage, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The three of us tramped through stands of alder and shafts of sunlight.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Past the brunch rush, the sunlight starts melting the clouds away.
    — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • The sunlight through the café windows moved gaily and bounced.
    — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There’s a caveat: Both of these satellites need sunlight to see the world.
    — Rob Jackson, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The opposite sides, the south and the west, will receive a lot of sunlight.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 14 May 2022
  • Does your home lack the sunlight needed for herbs to thrive?
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And there is so much more sunlight to coax the little studs of new spruce to grow to monarch size.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2022
  • Are the drapes opened just a crack and the sunlight is disrupting your sleep?
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2022
  • In fact, sunlight is 900 times as bright on Earth than on the ice planet.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The last one is to go outside and get 15 minutes of sunlight.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 23 July 2024
  • The Tuesday shoot flew by, as sunlight poured through the big windows.
    — Megan McCrea, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • That’s when bright sunlight reflects off the pavement on the street in front of my house.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the name eclipse chasers give to the sight of the last and first bead of sunlight as the sun is almost totally eclipsed.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The snake plant will thrive in any kind of light from bright direct sunlight to very low light.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • That said, do not leave them out to dry in direct sunlight.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But that flight occurred in the morning, with bright sunlight along the ship's flight path.
    — Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • States in the Midwest and Northeast have the least amount of sunlight in winter months.
    — USA Today, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Lyrek, 22, bootied her team as sunlight peeked over the horizon.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The answer begins in the deep sea, a world with little to no sunlight.
    — Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This trio of stained glass succulents fits the bill, with the leaves' vivid shades of yellow and green that pop in the sunlight.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 7 May 2023
  • And there was this: Richard stood tall in the sunlight, with home plate covered in shadows.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • But the question is how much longer the Malibu can pump out the jams while sitting in sunlight.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the wild, the color fades over time with exposure to sunlight.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Their eyes, so used to their new dim surroundings, hurt in the sunlight.
    — Loveday Morris and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The adult beetle is small, ½ to ⅜ of an inch long and is a golden-brown color with sheen when in the sunlight.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Suddenly, in the distance, a ray of sunlight seemed to leap out of the water.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.
    — Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • But weather is wild, weather is unpredictable, and direct sunlight can do a number on your new textile.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 14 May 2025

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