How to Use equinox in a Sentence

equinox

noun

• The spring equinox is when light and dark (day and night) are equal.
  — Allure, 18 Mar. 2022
• Over the last few years, the spring equinox has landed on March 20.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 26 Feb. 2024
• On the 23rd, the Sun enters Libra and brings us across the threshold of the equinox.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• So, the first day of the year always kicks off with the vernal equinox.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
• The equinox is defined based on the position of the center of the sun.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2022
• The autumnal equinox marks the start of fall, while the vernal equinox marks the start of spring.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• The backstone of its sister tomb, Knowth, lights up at the equinox.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• The fall equinox, the day many think of as the official start to fall, will be Thursday, Sept. 22.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Sep. 2022
• The day of the equinox changes from year to year on the calendar cycle because of the length of the solar year.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
• The harvest moon is the full moon that's closest to the autumnal equinox.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• No need to check the equinox: Oaks Park is opening for its 118th season.
  — Sswindler, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
• The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2022
• The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the September equinox.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• Thursday was the first day of fall, also known as the autumn equinox.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2022
• For some, spring cleaning takes place around the time of the vernal equinox, which this year fell on March 20.
  — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• But unlike the equinox, the end of the war isn’t preprinted on any calendar.
  — Margaret Roach, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• The spring equinox, which marks the official start of spring, is on Tuesday, March 19.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• The next seasonal milestone will be the fall equinox, which will be Sept. 22.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 June 2022
• The equinox is the moment the sun's rays shine directly on Earth's equator.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
• The first week in August marks the midway between the summer solstice and the fall equinox.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• Although summer has ended and the fall equinox has come and gone, the heat has not — in our love lives, that is.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• Polling shows that more people think Labor Day marks the end of summer than the fall equinox.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 29 May 2022
• Warm and full of life, ginger hair just screams autumn equinox.
  — Lillian Chen, Seventeen, 21 June 2023
• The fall equinox is upon us and there are a number of ways to celebrate.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• With the passing of the autumn equinox late last month, those of us who live far from the equator feel the change in the balance of day and night.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• In the Northern Hemisphere, the autumnal equinox is Sept. 22, marking the start of the fall season.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2022
• The effect is visible for about the week before and after the equinox.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The equinox had just passed; the snow that blankets the island for most of the year had not started falling, but the change of seasons was in the air.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• There's a good reason to go to Iceland during one of the year's two equinoxes.
  — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
• In January the days and short and the nights are long, but after equinox in late March the days quickly overtake the nights.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024