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Example sentences for "light from"

  • Oh, then, how sweet to move Thro' all that maze of mirth, Led by light from eyes we love Beyond all eyes on earth.

  • It presents the extremes of variation in distributions of light from overcast to sunny days and in the latter cases the shadows are continually shifting with the sun's altitude.

  • However, light from a tungsten lamp may be filtered to obtain the same quality of light as is emitted by the carbon filament lamp by absorbing from one fifth to one fourth of the light.

  • Consequently, so far as light from heaven is admitted man is rational; but so far as it is not admitted he is not rational, however rational he may seem to himself to be.

  • But this appearance is a fallacy, for as soon as any ray of light from heaven is let in, their human forms appear changed into monstrous forms, such as they are in themselves (as has been described above).

  • When the moon follows the god of light from afar, we have brightness in the daytime and clearness at night.

  • He opened the door in some unknown way and ascended one story to a room of medium dimensions, where by light from a carved lamp in which fragrant olive oil was burning, he saw Kama.

  • But it seemed to the prince that in a streak of light from a torch burning on the lower floor a naked head was visible for an instant, and also a panther skin.

  • Then I do not understand why I should not see the whole of my person in a much smaller mirror, for a ray of light from my feet would always reach it, though more obliquely.

  • A shadow, then, is nothing more than darkness produced by the intervention of an opaque body, which prevents the rays of light from reaching an object behind it.

  • She could not account for that at all, unless it was produced by a light from a house window--which was probably the case.

  • He accepted a light from Lee, who had lit his first with trembling haste.

  • He saw through the trees a faint gleam of light from a house window farther down the road.

  • Shining describes the steady emission of a strong light, or the steady reflection of light from a clear or polished surface.

  • Defn: A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

  • The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays.

  • To obviate such dangerous mistakes, there was no other method but the introduction of a light from oil, with reflectors, inclosed in a glazed light-room.

  • The artificers landed again in the evening, and work with torch-light from 10 to a quarter past 12, having had two hours’ and a quarter’s work.

  • A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

  • Shining describes the steady emission of a strong light, or the steady reflection of light from a clear or polished surface.

  • Beams of light from a star, entering by the slits, unite at the focus of the telescope, where the image is examined by an eyepiece magnifying about five thousand diameters.

  • STAR'LESS, having no stars visible: having no light from stars.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    figuratively speaking; light battery; light blue; light canoe; light cream; light cruiser; light gray; light heart; light infantry; light manufacturing; light railway; light soil; light step; light upon; light window; light winds; light wood; lighted lamp; lightning flash; modern poetry; not true; our ship; send away; take service; two weeks; village community