sunlight
the light of the sun; sunshine.
Origin of sunlight
1Words Nearby sunlight
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How to use sunlight in a sentence
For better predictions, debris trackers can also measure the reflection of sunlight off these objects, which can be used to narrow those windows to just a few meters.
How to cast a wider net for tracking space junk | Neel Patel | August 5, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt exposes the moss on the bottom to life-sustaining sunlight.
On an Alaskan glacier, little green moss balls roll in herds | Beth Geiger | July 30, 2020 | Science News For StudentsAfter the impact, however, dust from the impact caused sunlight that reaches Earth to dim 10 to 20 percent, the simulations show, which aligns with previous research.
An asteroid impact, not volcanism, may have made Earth unlivable for dinosaurs | Megan Sever | July 17, 2020 | Science NewsThis also helps screen the corals from some of that sunlight.
Going bright may help corals recover from bleaching | Carolyn Wilke | June 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsDark particles in the smoke absorbed sunlight and heated up the plume to make it rise, Kablick explains.
Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before | Maria Temming | June 15, 2020 | Science News
But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.
Is it halal if the animal lives a miserable life while never seeing sunlight?
And as we left, spears of sunlight painted the top of the nearby volcano Galeras.
We headed out soon after, back into the sunlight-dappled gardens of the temple complex, to join worshippers picnicking.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple | Michael Luongo | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMiles beneath the surface, in the absence of sunlight, animals derive energy from volcanic vents.
‘Mission Blue’ Warning: The Ocean Is Not Too Big to Fail | Sylvia A. Earle | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"We are going into the sunlight, out of the shadow;" and she glanced back at the west, which was of a slaty blackness.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonFor two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIt was all breeze and freshness, and the sunlight struck picturesquely aslant the hill-sides.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayShe welcomed them with all the native hospitality, as she would have opened her door to let the sunlight in.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe brilliant imaginative mind has woven it into romance, making its colors brighter still with the sunlight of inspired phantasy.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for sunlight
/ (ˈsʌnlaɪt) /
the light emanating from the sun
an area or the time characterized by sunshine
Derived forms of sunlight
- sunlit, adjective
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