light-struck
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of light-struck
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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There’s a stunning group of watercolors, seemingly breathed onto the paper, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, fragile etchings by Whistler and dazzling, light-struck waterside scenes by Sargent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
In the distance, Europeans and Indians gather amicably on the shore of a calm, light-struck lake.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2015
It’s a symphonic work about transience and loss, related in artwork that has some of Edward Hopper’s moody, light-struck realism.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2014
This painting of a shapeless body seated in an angular director's chair at the light-struck center of the canvas is a triumph of Soyer's unsentimental realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wouldn’t ship them undeveloped, for they might be light-struck.
From The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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