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Example sentences for "sunrays"

Lexicographically close words:
sunniest; sunnily; sunning; sunny; suno; sunrise; sunrises; sunrising; suns; sunset
  1. In this broad, populous thoroughfare the crowd streamed along in more open order; their cans jingled, everyone was in high spirits, amid the bright sunrays which enfiladed the road from one end to the other.

  2. And the oblique sunrays were enfilading the compartments of the railway carriage, filling them with dancing, golden dust.

  3. All the blinds of the left-hand windows had been pulled down, for the oblique sunrays were falling on the train, and had poured into it in sheets of fire.

  4. One morning, when he happened to be on the ground a little earlier than usual, and before his attendants, he caught sight of an animal unknown to him, stealing from a hollow into which the sunrays had not yet reached.

  5. Photogen had reached the top, and the same moment the sunrays alighted upon him: the glory of the king of day crowded blazing upon the golden-haired youth.

  6. The sunrays had now left them, and they lay cold and almost colourless, though bright still: even in the dark some of them would shine!

  7. But he had no suffering to speak of, and his face was serene as the gathering of the sunrays to go down together; a perfect yet deepening peace was upon it.

  8. The glint of the sunrays on their brightly shining dinner pails flashed heliographic warning of their approach long before the small pupils could be seen.

  9. She with all her garlands, was trying to wreath the brow of this gray monster, while he, with his withering sunrays and constant battering with tiny particles of sharp, flinty sand, was repulsing her every advance.

  10. There was no cloud in the vault of ether, and slanting sunrays beat fiercely down upon the prairie, until the fibrous dust grew fiery, and the eyes ached from the glare of the vast stretch of silvery grey.

  11. The men who keep the peace of the prairie are taught what heat and thirst are, when they ride in couples through a desolate waste wherein there is only bitter water, parched by pitiless sunrays and whitened by the intolerable dust of alkali.

  12. A few seconds he held it so, with an eagerness that told of some sweet and mighty relief come to his soul,--some illumination of grace that had seemed to be struck by the first sunrays from that hair into his wondering eyes.

  13. The clouds were tinged an earthlike yellow in the sunrays and in the shadow were a sorry blue.

  14. When the sunrays at last struck full and mellowingly upon the earth, the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns which disappeared on the brow of a hill in front and rearward vanished in a wood.

  15. It was very hot, for the sunrays struck down upon the canvas between the firs, whose clogging, honey-like sweetness was heavy in the air.

  16. The rain had suddenly ceased falling, the clear ring of a bicyclist's bell was heard in the distance, some carriages drove by, and under the pale sunrays life again came back to the Bois.

  17. The sunrays slid through the grass, birds sang, the young world that is so old smiled: but we had no heed for this.

  18. The subject Claude chose was a corner of the Place du Carrousel, at one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sunrays fall vertically.

  19. And, do you remember, there's a dash of shadow on that side; while here the sunrays fall quite straight.

  20. He beheld it also at noon, when the sunrays fall on it vertically, when a crude glare bites into it, and it becomes discoloured and mute like a dead city, retaining nought but the life of heat, the quiver that darts over its distant housetops.

  21. On the pillow with lace it was difficult at first to distinguish where the sunrays ended and the maiden's hair began.

  22. The sunrays were falling on her face, which was flushed and radiant like a child's.

  23. The brilliant sunrays blinded me and the sight of Rome in the glory of a mellow July afternoon brought the tears to my eyes and made me gulp and swallow.

  24. I was devoutly glad when the sunrays became more slanting and the daylight began to wane, and the ducks, still quacking protestingly, departed.

  25. My first sensation was discomfort, not only from the pain of my headache, but also from the heat of the sunrays beating on me, and that despite the fact that I could feel a strong cool breeze ruffling my hair and beard.

  26. Where the stream ran by the old mill-steps the river-reeds were blowing in the wind, with the sunrays playing in their midst, and the silver wings of the swallows brushing them with a sweet caress.

  27. The gray stone walls, the square windows through which the fading sunrays fell; the level pastures and sullen streams, and pallid skies without, all faded away as though they had existed only in a dream.

  28. She pointed to the corpse which the last sunrays were brightening, till the limbs were as alabaster and the hair was as gold.

  29. She looked at him from under the dusky cloud of her hair, with the golden threads gleaming on it like sunrays through darkness.

  30. He still seemed to her like a god, this man under whose hand flowers bloomed, and sunrays smiled, and waters flowed, and human forms arose, and the gracious shapes of a thousand dreams grew into substance.

  31. I awoke to find the sun up a good two hours and the hospitable couple beaming upon me as brightly as the sunrays which shone in through the diamond panes of the latticed window.

  32. It seemed very hot in the clearing and the scorching sunrays beat down upon the back of his neck and shoulders.

  33. They wandered on some distance beside the water, which ran almost west toward the Pacific, and wherever the forest was a little thinner the slanting sunrays streaming between the serried trunks smote along it.

  34. On one side of the clearing the slanting sunrays struck deep into the forest, forcing up great columnar trunks out of the shadow.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunrays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.