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
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
His natural instinct is to seek out the untold, unflattering story, to shine the cold, hard light of reality on a guy who seems too good to be true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
The dull tubes of them beginning to move sluggishly in the cold hard light.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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