flat light
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Times were unimportant, however, as the racers who deigned to take to the Stelvio course finetuned their lines down the course in the kind of flat light that is also forecast for Saturday's medal race.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Low clouds caused flat light and snowfall slowed most of the later starters.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Daren looked around the country club billiard room, filled with white flowers and black-clad guests, curtains drawn against the bright, flat light of Tennessee winter.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023
In the gray, flat light of early-morning Portugal, I took the Aveiro line south from my home in Porto, passing fields of rice and hay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
He could tell that it was almost dawn by the stillness and the quality of the cold, flat light beyond the canvas ceiling.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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