How to Use first light in a Sentence

first light

noun

• If all goes well, the first light photons will enter the camera in the spring.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
• About halfway through the set, the first light rain drops fell.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Go out at first light with ultralight spinning tackle, and toss out a nightcrawler on a bare hook.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• Seeing first light from the top of Haleakalā is a must-have experience in any season.
  — Sarah L. Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2023
• The search resumed at first light Friday, according to the release.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 8 July 2023
• Summer trout are at their most vigorous at daybreak—and first light is a great time to pursue most kinds of fish, at any time of year.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• At first light, Marsh surveyed the surroundings: dense stands of pines and steep ridges in every direction.
  — J.r. Sullivan, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2016
• His method is to enter the forest before first light and simply wait for an hour or so, watching and listening.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Against the backdrop of first light, Yakhshiboev had been making his way through one of the many 50-yard-long polytunnels that were his assignment for these two weeks.
  — Jack Williams Jane Stockdale, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• At very first light, being able to see is sometimes more important than being hidden.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
• Locals started their days in small boats, pushing off at first light to fish before returning after sunrise to tend the fields.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• In the frigid air of first light, an eager brigade clutching binoculars descended on a public park in a tony enclave near Pacific Palisades.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• An Intriguing Candidate Astronomers suspected the cosmos was full of worlds and their moons long before the Kepler telescope saw its first light.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
• The 75-year-old victim, who remains unidentified, was discovered by his grandson Wednesday morning just a few hours after first light.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2023
• And by the time the telescope sees first light, Jannuzi envisions a new generation of fresh graduates and budding scientists who will have the chance to pursue novel ideas.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• Next year two new facilities in Chile will see first light and begin to undertake their own surveys of thousands of southern-sky supernovae.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• From first light until midnight, Lewis-Stempel describes the animals, birds, insects, and flora that depend on it in careful detail.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 23 Mar. 2023
• Timaka James-Jones, a local official now based out of a small metal shed normally used by county road crews, said the work has been all-consuming since first light Saturday.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The company says the new model is designed to be the world’s first light jet capable of nonstop transcontinental flight across the U.S., with the ability to accommodate up to 11 occupants.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2023
• Texeira follows Hawaiian protocol and what she was taught by her family, such as gathering plants at first light or picking plants in a certain direction or amount.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Desperate residents, many of them with wet towels around their necks to stave off the scorching heat, used shovels to beat back flames approaching their homes as firefighting planes and helicopters resumed water drops at first light.
  — Micheal Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Following three months of checkouts, first light, and calibration, Euclid should be ready to start its operational science mission in October.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 July 2023

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024