sunburst

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Recent Examples of sunburst Jason Schmidt View into Powder Room: Nick Cave’s Arm Peace, 2018, made of cast bronze, and vintage sunburst and tole flowers, hangs on the wall to the right of the kitchen door, at the far end of the entrance hall. Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2024 At the upper left, the gray-bearded figure of a wise and eternal God directs the action, hovering within a dazzling golden sunburst. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 The blue sunburst dial with horizontal relief embossing has applied baton-style hour markers and rounded baton-style hour and minute hands, all in rose-gold with a white luminescent coating. Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 The dial is adorned with horizontal relief embossing in an olive-green shade illuminated by a sunburst motif. Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sunburst
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunburst
Noun
  • This year's design, with its glowing starburst and playful skaters, shows how something sweet can also be meaningful.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Set the aperture to f/16, and small, bright points of light render as 14-point starbursts.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The software can cause an error in the low power controller that makes the headlight shutters close over the high and low beams while driving.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • To optimize the now 5,500-square-foot layout, Churchill demolished a dangerous secondary stair, freeing the hayloft level to become the generous primary suite, where Hammel extended original timber barn framing with reclaimed sawn softwood beams.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Most people have heard the myth that daylight saving time came about to give farmers an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This description is a consequence of the Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere, in conjunction with the reflection and scattering across the expanse of the ocean.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In another post, Holmes shared photos of three young women whose afros radiated like halos in front of Magnificent Brothers Barber & Beauty Salon #2 in Watts in 1969, beckoning natives to the comments.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards.
    Gqlshare, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But through the eye of the camera lens, the sunbeams seemed to multiply, all but obscuring the stately, two-century-old building.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Where most anthologies spotlight each of their stories with the mono-focus of a slide projector, Falconer’s attention drifts with the warm indifference of a roving sunbeam.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From feeling the sunshine on your skin to swimming in crystal-clear waters, spending time at the beach can have a healing impact on your wellbeing.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In a forest of eastern Thailand, a rare predator meandered along a rocky riverbank and stopped to rest in the sunshine.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • La Roche-Posay Mela B3 Serum $45 Amazon Caudalie Premier Cru Anti-Aging Serum $129 Amazon Last but not least, sunscreen is a nonnegotiable when combating harmful ultraviolet rays and preventing skin cancer.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 19 Feb. 2025
  • These magnificent rays are at risk of disappearing due to targeted fishing, being caught as bycatch, and climate change.
    Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Blue Ghost also plans to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse as the Earth blocks the sun just before a lunar sunset ushers in frigid lunar night on March 16.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Sunburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunburst. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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