sunlit

[suhn-lit]

adjective

1. lighted by the sun.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunlit¹

First recorded in 1815–25; sun + lit ¹

Example Sentences

Instead of heading right back to Chantel’s place, they make one more stop at a sunlit supermarket with spacious nooks and exposed brick walls, where the shelves offer gourmet canned tomatoes and luscious produce.

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Back outside, with a view of the port and the sunlit open sea, we met a merchant seaman, relaxing on a bench, who told us his son worked for the New York Times.

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Bilal, a nurse, was back at the mass grave site, glancing around at the sunlit landscape, reliving his darkest night.

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These single-celled algae, which contain chlorophyll, float in the sunlit layers of the sea and are coated with calcium carbonate plates known as coccoliths.

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Butter lettuce is the soft one, silky and a little floral, with a quiet nuttiness near the center that sneaks up on you like a secret whispered in a sunlit kitchen.

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