How to Use sunless in a Sentence

sunless

adjective
  • Yes, self-tanners give pasty legs a safe, sunless glow.
    Colleen Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Spray tanning, on the other hand, offers you a safe, sunless glow.
    Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Hoel looked so pale Jian often wondered if the woman had seen anything but the inside of a sunless lab for the last thirty years.
    Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • The giant plastic spheres and, in at least one case, a hemisphere, are opening eyes to the sunless depths of the ocean and leading to discoveries.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The camera lights illuminate the sunless landscape in a way that suggests a sci-fi movie.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • One hundred yards of winding, sunless trail was followed.
    Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
  • Its hangar can hold three miniature submarines for taking humans into the sunless depths.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Olson connected in the bottom half on another smoky, sunless day that had the strange sight of ballpark lights on in the afternoon.
    Janie McCauley, Houston Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2020
  • On land, there were several years of freezing temperatures and sunless skies, not to mention the tsunamis and worldwide wildfires.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • To the villagers along the Iditarod’s remote, often sunless trails, Mountain is just another musher on a sled helmed by 14 dogs.
    NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, it's housed on a server in some unknown probably dank and sunless location.
    John Patrick Pullen, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike the splotchy, bright orange fake tans of the early to mid 2000s, today’s sunless tanning products are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    Cristina Montemayor, SELF, 27 May 2022
  • Soon, however, a revolutionary new telescope launching in 2025 may be able unlock the secrets of the darkness of space, where sunless worlds may even outnumber the stars.
    Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • What governs the sunless vistas is not a peaceable kingdom but a fierce contest for life, occasionally made vivid for us by the fiery, bioluminescent nature of its display.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • During the long, sunless Arctic winter, temperatures normally plunge far below zero; sea ice thickens and spreads.
    Tim Folger, National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Services include sunless spray tanning, European bronzing beds, stand-up sun booths, and spa services such as photo facials and FIT (far infrared technology) bodywrap.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The sunless winter caused extraordinary disorientation; her imagination conjured phantoms from the dark.
    Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023

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