How to Use sunless in a Sentence

sunless

adjective
  • This is what the world looks like at the ocean’s sunless depths.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • Today there are more than 200 private submersibles operating around the world and a dozen companies selling tours to the sunless depths.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • Instead the team spent those sunless early-morning hours verifying its results.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
  • As for applying baby oil or a sunless tanner before spending time in the sun, as some TikTokers suggest, Houshman strongly advised against it.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Those last months spent hiding from Pakistani police in a sunless room.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026
  • The bits of name tags that had yellowed and faded, even in a sunless corridor.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There’s never been a better time to prioritize sunless tanning.
    — Tori Crowther, Allure, 22 Apr. 2026
  • His eyes are wrapped in gauze, and his hair is the grey of a sunless afternoon.
    — Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As a safer alternative, many people opt for sunless tanning methods such as fake tan products or sprays.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025

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