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Example sentences for "sun"

Lexicographically close words:
sumthing; sumtimes; sumtyme; sumus; sumwhat; suna; sunbaked; sunbeam; sunbeams; sunbird
  1. The gloom still pressed about the cavern, yet a sun no less effulgent than that of which he had spoken had risen for Ben.

  2. The look in the girl's eyes suddenly melted, as the warm sun melts ice, some of the frozen bitterness of his spirit.

  3. She saw her task, and with a faith and steadfastness conformable more to the sun and the earth than to human frailty, her muscles made instant and incredible response.

  4. Never the moon rose or the sun declined but that he was sick with haunting fear for her.

  5. The sun still moved north; warm, north-blowing winds blew the last of the lowering, wintry clouds back to the Arctic Seas whence they had come.

  6. The sun has fallen low by the time we pass on to the Brazen Palace.

  7. The sun is shining out of a cloudless sky on to a sea so blue that it gives one a sort of pleasant pain to look at its loveliness.

  8. They shake themselves like dogs as they land, and the sun soon dries their one and only garment.

  9. Now we are sitting on a great grey stone on the Mount of Olives, and the sun is coming out and drying up all the dampness.

  10. The sun seemed simply to rush up, and in five minutes from a world of black shadows and no colours it turned to a world of green and blue and yellow.

  11. We have cold days and warm ones, but the sun is never too hot for us to go out in the middle of the day, and the cold never so intense as to freeze our noses and make them fall off.

  12. The sun is shining brilliantly, and on most of the pavements there are chairs set out around small tables where men in perfectly amazingly baggy corduroy trousers and blue blouses sit and drink variously coloured drinks.

  13. Did you see that red glint from the top as the sun caught the htee at an angle?

  14. The blue-green leaves are small and narrow, and they turn edgewise to the sun as if they were reluctant to give anyone beneath them any more shade than they could help.

  15. The city rises high on the banks, and towers and minarets and domes of a curious long-drawn-out shape, glittering in the sun like gold, arise out of the flat roofs.

  16. The place is like a bazaar with people in their gay clothes coming and going, and the sun glinting through between the pillars at the open spaces.

  17. The ship stops at Kobé, but, unluckily, you have got a touch of the sun and the doctor strictly forbids you to go on shore.

  18. The sun shines in patches along the decks and the sea is blue and sparkling.

  19. Over this tent was exhibited to the view of the whole army the image of the sun set in crystal, as the Persians were worshippers of the sun and fire.

  20. In the forest of St. Germain, the birds sang merrily in the trees, and the timid deer sought shelter in the deepest shade, all unconscious that ere the setting of the sun a royal prince would look upon it for the first time.

  21. And observing this union of the Sun and the Moon and that fearful conjunction of theirs, Sakra thought within himself, "This terrific conjunction of the Sun and the Moon forebodeth a fearful battle on the morrow.

  22. Fire is my mouth, the earth my feet, and the Sun and the Moon are my eyes; the Heaven is the crown of my head, the firmament and the cardinal points are my ears; the waters are born of my sweat.

  23. And that time Matali, the charioteer of Indra, approached Rama on the field of battle, with a car effulgent as the Sun and unto which were yoked horses of a tawny hue.

  24. And they joyously exterminated the Danavas in no time, just as the sun destroys darkness, or as fire destroys a forest, or as the winds drive away the clouds.

  25. The sun is fire, the days and nights are fuel.

  26. Thus the worshipful Sun who dispelleth darkness, goeth round this (mountain) obscuring other luminaries.

  27. Then again nearing the Meru, the divine Sun (ever) intent on the good of all beings, again courseth, facing the east.

  28. And he further saw the twenty four Parvas adorning the Sun, and the terrible Soma also present in the Sun under such surroundings.

  29. And even as the Sun surrounds everything with his rays, that mighty-armed and strong one of unfailing prowess, covered all with arrows destroying foes.

  30. I am the flame known as Samvartaka, I am the Wind called by that name, I am the Sun wearing that appellation, and I am the fire that hath that designation.

  31. And cased in armour of gold he rode in a gold-coloured chariot bright as the Sun and drawn by chestnut horses.

  32. The sun hath set a long while ago and the night deepens.

  33. Towards evening the rain held up, and the sun came out with that inexpressible glory of coloring only to be seen when the mountains glow, and seem transfigured with its misty beams.

  34. The sun had set, but a golden haze enveloped valley, mountain and river, when Eric went with the servant, and from the corridor looked out over the distant prospect.

  35. The sun shines, the birds sing, the flowers bloom, and the world is better than it seems.

  36. He was happy, for the sun had risen in Roland, the sun of thought which can never set; clouds may obscure it, but it stands and shines for ever.

  37. The sun shines only for the few just men; and in every human being there is a complete Sodom; but there is also in him something of righteousness, and because of that he continues to live.

  38. What we drink is the offspring of departed days, and what we receive into our soul has ripened in the sun of eternity.

  39. See how the sun still glows in the noble juice which it has so joyfully smiled upon, and so diligently ripened.

  40. That great glass dome on which the evening sun is shining is the palm-house.

  41. The sun had risen; he could not endure its splendor, and with eyes fixed upon the ground he went on.

  42. The sun shone bright, the hay exhaled so sweet a fragrance, the vessels were rushing up and down the stream, and just then a merry procession was moving towards them on the road; it was a so-called harvest mummery.

  43. He raised his glass with enthusiasm, the sunlight sparkled in the wine, and pointing to it he continued: "The sun of to-day greets the sun of a past age.

  44. The morning sun had become lord over the mist, shining brightly over river and mountains.

  45. And without giving him time to reply whether he would do so or not, they hurried him over the side into a small boat and set him adrift; but when Sun Pi-chen looked back, lo!

  46. The sun was rapidly sinking, and there was no place at hand where they could obtain shelter for the night.

  47. By the time he had reached the door, Sun groaned and recovered consciousness; and he was then able to describe all the articles of toilette and furniture in A-pao's room without making a single mistake.

  48. However, everything was got ready, and the next day Mr. Sun proceeded with his investigation.

  49. Now when Silly Sun had seen the young lady get up to go, he could not bear to part with her, and found himself first following and then walking along by her side without anyone saying anything to him.

  50. By that time Sun had hardly a breath left in him; and his friends, fearing that he was going to die, sent to beg of the rich trader that he would allow a search to be made for Sun's spirit in his house.

  51. A servant in the employ of a Mr. Sun was sleeping alone one night, when all on a sudden he was arrested and carried before the tribunal of the Ruler of Purgatory.

  52. The sun had already set, and there he sat in the gloom thinking of what had happened.

  53. He was nearly blind with straining his eyes, and the sun was already past noontide before the young lady arrived; but when she saw from her carriage a gentleman standing there, she drew aside the screen and had a good stare at him.

  54. The coffin was then opened and they found that Sun had come to life again.

  55. A man named Sun Pi-chen was crossing the river[514] when a great thunder-squall broke upon the vessel and caused her to toss about fearfully, to the great terror of all the passengers.

  56. Now Silly Sun had recently lost his wife; and some one in joke persuaded him to try his luck and send in an application.

  57. The sun broke out on Dickory's countenance without a shower; his mother noticed the change.

  58. Had she stayed aboard with us, every ship in the colony might have been cruising after us before to-morrow's sun had gone down.

  59. Early in the morning, through an open port-hole, the light of the eastern sun stole into this abode of darkness and sin and threw itself upon the red-stained letter sticking in the crack of the woodwork.

  60. It did not heed the warm sun and the fresh air, or notice the little peasant children who ran about chattering when they came out to gather wild strawberries and raspberries.

  61. The spring sun had chased away the last snow from its hiding place under the hedges; the fields were full of flowers; nightingales sang in the trees, and all the world was gay.

  62. They went on till they came to a church, and the robbers said, 'The sun is hot and the sack is heavy; let us leave it here and go in and rest.

  63. The sun went down, the full moon rose, large, round, clear and beautiful, in the dark blue sky.

  64. And then they were taken out of the wash-tub, starched, and hung on a chair in the sun to dry, and then laid on the ironing-board.

  65. He was in this state when, one morning, he happened to be passing a fine palace; and, as the sun was shining bright and warm, he sat down on the steps and tried to shake off some of the dust which he had picked up on the road.

  66. So the winter went on, till at last the spring sun mounted higher in the heavens and began to warm the earth.

  67. They took each other's hands and wandered out of the great palace; they talked about the grandmother and the roses on the leads, wherever they came the winds hushed and the sun came out.

  68. When it had all fallen, and the sun was shining again, the children ran out into the street to play, and the old man and his wife sat at their window and gazed at them.

  69. But as yet there was no Hans to be seen, and the sun was already high in the heavens, so the squire himself went and called on him.

  70. It's a different country from India, with its blazing sun and great bare plains; there the people seldom has a smile on them.

  71. There was a big gathering in our lodge that night, men constantly coming in to see the wonderful instrument that could bring down sun fire.

  72. With them were five other men, each wearing his hair done into a huge, furbound knot on the foretop of his head, the insignia of the sun priest, or so-called medicine man.

  73. The sun blazed down upon us, and we could not have held out had not a light wind been blowing down the coulee.

  74. I was right; I soon learned that the word meant sun youth, or sacred youth.

  75. The sun is almost down, he rides as if he were in no hurry; I think that the camp cannot be far away," said Ancient Otter.

  76. We had no time to go after them, as the sun was getting low, and anyhow I was well satisfied with our success of the day.

  77. There are times when flint and steel are useless, but as long as the sun shines you can always make fire with this," he told me.

  78. The sun had set when we crossed the river and the big prairie at the foot of the upper lake, and started on the trail along the lower lake.

  79. The sun danced joyously and sportively on the golden wave, and where recently towered the rugged surface of the tiny iceberg, the still, calm, unbroken level of the mirroring lake was only visible.

  80. As I told them, they may regret their unkindness to me before another sun has set.

  81. He says I'm not half a campaigner, and a couple of hours of bed are enough for me," the boy thought proudly, and snuffed the springing air of the young sun on the fields.

  82. In other words, love is an affair of two, and is only for two that can be as quick, as constant in intercommunication as are sun and earth, through the cloud or face to face.

  83. They are with you to a certainty if Nature is with you; if you are elegant and discreet: if the sun is on you, and they see you shining in it; or if they have seen you well-stationed and handsome in the sun.

  84. He was happy at that hour in dispensing wisdom or nugae to his hearers, like the Western sun whose habit it is, when he is fairly treated, to break out in quiet splendours, which by no means exhaust his treasury.

  85. The sun was nearly down when Philip returned, tired but happy.

  86. The sun broke out from the dull gray mountain of clouds and threw a yellow glare on the colorless field.

  87. The sun is the best thing we've got, and we go by him considerable.

  88. When Robert Grant, of the Imperial Lumber Company, of Toronto, wakened from his slumber it was broad daylight, and the yellow winter sun poured in through the frosted panes.

  89. Just then the first pale beams of the morning sun glinted on the last coach, and touched with fine gold the long white smoke plume, which the wind carried far over the field.

  90. It was a glittering day in early August; a light shower the night before had washed the valley clean of dust, and now the hot harvest sun poured down his ripening rays over the pulsating earth.

  91. And now, dear Nymphs, while the hot sun is high [3] Darting his influence right upon the plain, Let us all sit beneath the narrow shade That noontide Etna casts.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annum; bake; bask; blot; brush; burn; candle; century; corona; cure; day; daylight; decade; drain; dry; evaporate; fire; flame; fortnight; glim; hour; illuminant; kiln; lamp; lantern; light; luminary; luster; match; millennium; minute; moment; month; moon; parch; quarter; rub; scorch; sear; second; semester; session; shrivel; smoke; sponge; star; sumptuous; sun; sunlight; sunshine; swab; taper; term; torch; towel; weazen; week; wipe; wither; wizen; year


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sundry kinds; sunflower seed; sunken road; sunny bank; sunny days; sunny side; sunny window