sunlit

[ suhn-lit ]

/ ˈsʌnˌlɪt /

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adjective

lighted by the sun.

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Origin of sunlit

First recorded in 1815–25; sun + lit¹

Words nearby sunlit

sunlamp, sunless, sun letter, sunlight, Sunlight Peak, sunlit, sun lounge, sun moss, sunn, Sunna, Sunni

How to use sunlit in a sentence

Near the end of the video, Shillinglaw appeared in a sunlit forest, wearing a collared shirt and a New Forests–branded jacket.
The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere|James Temple, Lisa Song|April 29, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Near the end of the video, Shillinglaw appears in a sunlit forest, wearing a collared shirt and a New Forests-branded jacket.
The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere|by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review|April 29, 2021|ProPublica
Cases of malaria rose as mosquitos reproduced quickly in newly sunlit pools and people encroached into the forest.
The Vast Viral World: What We Know (and Don’t Know) - Issue 99: Universality|Lauren E. Oakes|April 7, 2021|Nautilus
With plate tectonics came shallow sunlit seas and lakes fertilized with nutrients weathered from continental rock.
Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life|Howard Lee|March 25, 2021|Quanta Magazine

That happens when ices on the sunlit sides of comets vaporize, giving them a little rocketlike boost in speed.
‘Oumuamua may be a chip knocked off an icy, Pluto-like exoplanet|Maria Temming|March 19, 2021|Science News
The one passion of my life lay buried in the sunlit forests of Brittany.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At first, his friends noted, he would simply ask his mistress to sit in a chair in a sunlit room.
Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse|James MacManus|May 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A sunlit courtyard with a dry, cracked fountain at its center beckoned us to stop.
Adventures with an Extreme Polyglot: Excerpt from 'Babel No More'|Michael Erard|January 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
With one hand he clasped her arm; with the other, in a superb gesture, he indicated the sunlit world outside.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Nigel drew back, and she stepped out upon the balcony, where Baroudi was leaning upon the railing, looking over the sunlit Nile.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
He thought he heard the ripple of waves on a sunlit shore, and of wide-spreading trees which grew close to the edge of the sea.
The Everlasting Arms|Joseph Hocking
The lady was sitting gazing out from her window on the second floor of the Hotel de Russie upon the sunlit tranquil turquoise sea.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume III (of 3)|Charles James Wills

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