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Examples of starlight in a Sentence
We had to find our way by starlight.
Recent Examples of starlight from the Web
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Highlights of the second annual Festival of Albariño include a Grand Tasting, a starlight winemaker dinner, and a winemaker tasting seminar, featuring leading wine makers, viticulturalists and wineryowners.
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Mysterious and moody cloud cover at the 8:30 p.m. show time, perhaps, providing a perfect backdrop for trip-the-light fantastic Starlight floats.
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Those twinkles occur because of atmospheric turbulence on Earth that refracts starlight, creating the illusion of a shifting shape.
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During a transit, any gases in the planet’s atmosphere change the appearance of starlight streaming through.
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In order to account for the results of our new experiment, the unknown mechanism would need to have been set in place before the emission of the starlight that Handsteiner’s group observed, back when Joan of Arc’s friends still called her Joanie.
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According to relativity, the spacetime curved by the sun’s mass would bend incoming starlight like a lens.
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Dark matter collecting inside exoplanets could heat some cold worlds enough to support life, even without the warm glow of starlight.
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First Known Use of starlight
14th century
STARLIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
starlight
playDefinition of starlight for English Language Learners
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: the light produced by stars
STARLIGHT Defined for Kids
starlight
playDefinition of starlight for Students
: the light given by the stars
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