How to Use solstice in a Sentence

solstice

noun

• It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
  — cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
• And the winter solstice, or the shortest day of the year, will be on Dec. 21.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Sep. 2022
• On the winter solstice, the sun sets to the southwest of the stone circle.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Wednesday marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• Spring lasts from the end of March until the summer solstice mid-June.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• The summer solstice occurs when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
  — Doyle Rice, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2023
• The show culminates with the arrival of the solstice puppet.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2022
• And like Stonehenge, Waun Mawn appears to have been aligned with the solstice.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2022
• Why is the hottest weather later in the summer and not around the time of the summer solstice or the longest day of the year?
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 20 July 2023
• The first week in August marks the midway between the summer solstice and the fall equinox.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• The change of seasons are marked by solstices or equinoxes.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 26 Feb. 2024
• The days are still very short in the weeks following the winter solstice, and the sun angle is still low.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2023
• June 21 is the summer solstice, the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
  — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
• The winter solstice – the shortest daylight day of the year – is Wednesday, Dec. 21.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 22 Aug. 2022
• In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, when the Earth is at its furthest tilt away from the sun.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• The gap between sunrise and sunset will be at its smallest on the winter solstice which is the 21st of the month.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Here are four ways the solstice is celebrated around the world.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• The winter solstice is also the day for a number of traditions around the world.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 21 Dec. 2022
• Sounds perfect for a birthday child of the winter solstice.
  — Katharina Fuchs, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2023
• He was sentenced to life in prison—according to legend, on the day of the summer solstice of 1633.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
• That means that we’re headed into longer days and shorter nights up to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2024
• Each day for the next three months, the sun will get higher in the sky – and the daily amount of daylight longer – until the summer solstice in June.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• The summer solstice, which marked the beginning of the summer, fell on June 21 in Arizona.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• What's the difference between an equinox and a solstice?
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• What's the difference between an equinox and a solstice?
  — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• The summer solstice – the precise moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky each year – has arrived.
  — Sydney Bergan, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• Does the winter solstice mark the official start of winter?
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Like nearby Stonehenge, the structure was built to align with the rising sun on the summer solstice.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2022
• The annual summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer—and longest day of the year—in that half of the world.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• With the solstice more than two weeks behind us, days have been getting slowly longer.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024