Examples of sunlit in a Sentence
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The west wing of the residence houses a formal dining room, a sunlit chef's kitchen and three en-suite bedrooms that are connected by a sitting room.
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Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
David Rockwell and his Rockwell Group, the theater and hospitality specialists from New York, have converted the center’s atrium into a handsome, sunlit, wide-open complex of terraced classrooms and breakout spaces.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
Inside, classrooms are stacked in a multistory configuration around a sunlit atrium.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
Top marks to Payne, too, for concluding his fable not with a hug but with a handshake, in a sunlit New Year.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
Owner Janni Fenn, who runs the farm with her husband, Alex, showed me to my apartment — a sunlit second-floor space, its kitchen stocked with coffee, local butter, and chocolate milk that made for a hygge haven at the end of an exhilarating day.
—Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
In the Instagram Story snap, a huge bouquet of white roses was laid out on a table by a sunlit window.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
John Szabo stepped out of the elevator and walked through the sunlit atrium of the Central Library.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Curator Laurie Ann Farrell glances up across the tall, sunlit, central atrium of the African American Museum in Fair Park.
—Jerome Weeks, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
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Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
David Rockwell and his Rockwell Group, the theater and hospitality specialists from New York, have converted the center’s atrium into a handsome, sunlit, wide-open complex of terraced classrooms and breakout spaces.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
Inside, classrooms are stacked in a multistory configuration around a sunlit atrium.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
Top marks to Payne, too, for concluding his fable not with a hug but with a handshake, in a sunlit New Year.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
Owner Janni Fenn, who runs the farm with her husband, Alex, showed me to my apartment — a sunlit second-floor space, its kitchen stocked with coffee, local butter, and chocolate milk that made for a hygge haven at the end of an exhilarating day.
—Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
In the Instagram Story snap, a huge bouquet of white roses was laid out on a table by a sunlit window.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
John Szabo stepped out of the elevator and walked through the sunlit atrium of the Central Library.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Curator Laurie Ann Farrell glances up across the tall, sunlit, central atrium of the African American Museum in Fair Park.
—Jerome Weeks, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
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First Known Use
1784, in the meaning defined above
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“Sunlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunlit. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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sunlit
adjective
sun·lit
-ˌlit 
: lighted by or as if by the sun
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