How to Use dayside in a Sentence

dayside

noun
  • That means one side of the planet, the dayside, always faces the star.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Its star-facing dayside is scorching, while its nightside is much cooler.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The exoplanet’s dayside is scorching, while its space-facing hemisphere sits out in the cold.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
  • There, the molecules come together once more to form water before being shoved over to the dayside again.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The dayside programs at MS Now will focus on hard news and reporting.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • In this case, the temperature difference isn't a large one, meaning that heat likely flows from the dayside to the nightside.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The water atoms are ripped apart by the blazing hot temperatures experienced by the planet on the dayside.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • If the planet’s dayside initially held liquid oceans, that water’s evaporation would have formed thick clouds.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Gudipati suspects that this glowing effect occurs all across Europa, but is likely too dim to spot in the sun’s glare on the moon’s dayside.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The process repeats when the unfortunate molecules return to the dayside.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • On the programming side, ESPN is thinking about adding two new dayside shows.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 15 May 2025
  • Here, the dark sides of these planets are in perpetual night, and the warming effect wins out, whereas on the dayside, the cooling effect wins out.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2020
  • As a result, the magnetic field on the dayside of our planet receives a little extra boost, while the nightside is slightly weaker.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Our programming teams will see some reductions in show staffs and, in some cases, the combination of teams for our dayside and weekend lineups.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Forty-four minutes before closest approach, the radiometers began to scan Venus’s dayside.
    — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2014
  • These planets are tidally locked, so that the same side always faces the star, and depending on how much the heat gets redistributed, the dayside can be much hotter than the nightside.
    — John Wenz, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
  • With such a close orbit, the planet is almost certainly tidally locked, meaning one side of the planet always faces the star, creating a dayside and a nightside.
    — Jay Bennett, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The dayside's blazing temperatures, which are hot enough to turn molecules into atoms and metal into vapor, create iron vapor.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Ahmed Fareed, who was set to host dayside coverage for NBC Olympics, will step in to replace Melvin.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Its dayside would look orangeish, so hot that complex molecules can't stay together and only 2,000 degrees cooler than our sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 June 2017
  • Temperatures on its dayside climb high enough to vaporize metals, while previous studies have suggested that iron may condense and fall as rain on the cooler nightside.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 June 2026
  • The researchers believe that the dayside's blazing temperatures, which are hot enough to turn molecules into atoms and metal into vapor, create iron vapor.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Chief investigative correspondent Pamela Brown will anchor a new dayside show out of the nation’s capital.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2023
  • On the dayside, ultraviolet radiation from direct sunlight gives lunar dust a net positive charge by knocking off electrons.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Carried by hurricane-force winds, the spacecraft traveled some 7,150 miles from the planet’s nightside to its dayside over the course of roughly two Earth days.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The finding is consistent with powerful winds transporting heat from the planet's intensely hot dayside toward its cooler nightside, researchers say.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 June 2026
  • Shows in primetime, dayside and the weekends will be impacted, with some notable cancelations, elevations, and new additions expected, one of the sources says.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This will reveal both the signatures of atmospheric ingredients such as water, methane, and carbon dioxide, and also how heat flows from the planet’s dayside to its nightside.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
  • As part of sweeping changes from president Rebecca Kutler, shows in dayside and primetime will be impacted, with notable names moving to new time periods.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Additionally, in answering questions at the end of the meeting, Beatty added that a hot Jupiter’s dayside would be likely hazy, not crystal clear, and the nightside would be much more opaque with clouds.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019

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