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
• For 2024, the AirPods Max now come in blue, purple, midnight, starlight and orange.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
• Dust can be identified by its effect on starlight: stars shining through dust look redder and dimmer.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024