sunray
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In addition to the allegedly misleading slogan, Vegadelphia said Dunkin's advertisements used a font and "sunray" backdrop that resemble its ads, which it called "beyond coincidence."
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022
In another three days, I would see the dawn’s first sunray fill a stone window in the 550-year-old Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2016
For her first Chloé collection, Clare Waight Keller focused on pleated silk dresses with sunray striped effects or checked inlays.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2011
From the full sunray skirts through the gowns at the finale, the pleats gave a fashion look that was somewhere between a Greek goddess and the French fashion god Azzedine Alaïa.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2010
“Pretty girl you got, Suna,” sang a waitress with curly sunray hair.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
We never glimpse the underclass toiling on the streets below and beneath hammering sunrays that would turn Louis to ash, but we know they're down there.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
“Like magic, my skin turns sunrays into nutrients, into vitamin D.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
A couple of sunrays twang against the frame, then he’s through.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2015
When fish graze on algae, or on zooplankton that fed on algae, they absorb energy that the algae plucked from sunrays, and they lap up the algae’s nourishing fatty acids.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2014
Closer, crowned with her own sunrays and dressed like a classical Greek, the Statue of Liberty welcomed them.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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