How to Use starlight in a Sentence

starlight

noun
  • We had to find our way by starlight.
  • When the clouds cleared, the icy world was revealed in starlight.
    Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Ring calls them blush, charcoal, and starlight (aka pink, gray, and beige).
    Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • Standing beneath the great bowl of the heavens, the man bathed in starlight and emotion.
    Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
  • They were completely washed out by all the starlight in the universe.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
  • As starlight filtered through the shroud, the telescope recorded the changes to the near infrared part of the spectrum.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • In the end, there were three sets of plates from which the deflection of starlight could be measured.
    Dennis Overbye, The Seattle Times, 4 Aug. 2017
  • That was first confirmed with the measurement of a redshift in the starlight of a white dwarf star in 1954.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
  • As a result, a ray of starlight passing near the sun would bend by a tiny angle.
    Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2017
  • On a chilly night, take your blanket outside to enjoy the starlight.
    Jennifer Miko, Chron, 22 May 2021
  • Your body is made of motion and your dreams are made of confusion and starlight.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The phone will be available in three colors: midnight, starlight, and red.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The blue structures are clumps of dust that are reflecting starlight.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • At that time, some of the starlight is absorbed by the planet’s atmosphere.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
  • The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro will come in five colors: midnight, starlight, blue, purple and red.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Its mission was to watch for brief dips in starlight caused by planets crossing the faces of their stars.
    National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • This movement can be detected in a slight shift in the color of the starlight, via the Doppler effect.
    William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
  • During a solar eclipse in 1919, astronomers showed that the sun’s mass did indeed bend the path of starlight.
    Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The figure is made of thick dust clouds blocking out starlight from behind.
    Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The starlight was obscured by the sodden cloud cover of early spring.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • And outside the window, air traffic flows on peaceful through the starlight city.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The first starlight might have lit up the cosmos just 250 million years after the Big Bang—a blink of an eye in cosmic time.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • By the end of its initial two-year mission, TESS will have measured starlight across 85 percent of the sky.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • These are people who think in light-years and obsess over starlight that took billions of years to reach Earth.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Today her story shifts like starlight sparkling on sea ice.
    Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Some, the smallest, came in purple and picked guitars with strings of sterling, starlight-like floss for strings.
    Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The planet betrayed its presence by crossing the face of its star and briefly blotting out a smidgen of starlight.
    Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 1 July 2020
  • Some birds navigate by starlight, which is harder to see in bright night skies.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The Moon will close the apparent distance between the two until in one moment the starlight will be gone!
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • Prior to Bella’s passing, the young starlight was admitted into the ICU.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 15 July 2024

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