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
  • By 2025, those places blinked out like starlight.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Ring calls them blush, charcoal, and starlight (aka pink, gray, and beige).
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • They were completely washed out by all the starlight in the universe.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
  • The figure is made of thick dust clouds blocking out starlight from behind.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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 blue structures are clumps of dust that are reflecting starlight.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • Some birds navigate by starlight, which is harder to see in bright night skies.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As a result, a ray of starlight passing near the sun would bend by a tiny angle.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Its mission was to watch for brief dips in starlight caused by planets crossing the faces of their stars.
    — National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The starlight was obscured by the sodden cloud cover of early spring.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • People are good at adapting to a wide range of light levels, from sunlight to starlight.
    — Michael J. Murdoch, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The team discovered its starlight wasn't bright enough to be an ordinary star.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • At that time, some of the starlight is absorbed by the planet’s atmosphere.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
  • Standing beneath the great bowl of the heavens, the man bathed in starlight and emotion.
    — Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
  • And outside the window, air traffic flows on peaceful through the starlight city.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • This will bend the path of the starlight and focus it, like a lens, causing the star to briefly appear brighter.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 June 2025
  • Jena tried to imagine the desert, drenched now in starlight, gushing with water.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Some were made with prisms that fan out the starlight, creating what's known as stellar spectra.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Little rays of dying starlight were escaping from the clouds of dust, just as sun rays might pierce through clouds.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The placard was talking about starlight, but what if there was another message here for me?
    — Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hatchling sea turtles find their way to the Gulf waters by moonlight or starlight.
    — al, 3 June 2021
  • The dirt of the desert is circling around in little eddies as the wind blends it together with the starlight.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The dirt of the desert is circling around in little eddies as the wind blends it together with the starlight.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As background starlight streams around the planet, some of it passes through the atmosphere.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Dec. 2025

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