hard light
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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One wears sprinkles like confetti or a glaze sticky as the night and waits under hard light at an airport coffee counter.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
And then came Ms. Chang’s astonishing bestseller—part memoir, part history—to throw a hard light on it all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
“The hard light felt like, ‘Okay... this was not really described in detail.’
From The Verge ● Jun. 10, 2022
Most days, the tropical sun bounces off the coral and sand, refracting into a hard light that gives many islanders a permanent squint.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2020
Bathed in the hard light, it glowed as if it were made of gold.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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