How to Use skylight in a Sentence
skylight
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The kitchen skylight and french doors flood the room with light.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 7 June 2022
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Above it, a skylight opened up to the grey Parisian skies.
—Vogue, 8 July 2024
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More than once, flames leapt out of the ship’s skylights.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
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The friend fell through the skylight into the metal shop and was killed.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2022
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The colors changed to match the sun coming through the chapel’s skylight.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
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The horse stood, closed his eyes in what morning light came through the glass of the rusty skylights in the roof.
—Ali Smith, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Of course, a large skylight on the top floor doesn’t hurt, either.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2023
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Off the hall are stairs with a skylight that lead to the penthouse bedroom.
—Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
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The skylight overhead lets in plenty of light to keep the space warm and bright.
—New Atlas, 10 Mar. 2025
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In the rainy season, a skylight above the bed will keep you attuned to the shifting of the clouds.
—Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
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On the floor of the terrace is a glass cutout that serves as a skylight to the main event space below.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
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There’s also a skylight that runs for a full 100 feet along the entire length of the home.
—David Kaufman, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2023
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Through the loft's skylight, a column of sun streamed down on our heads.
—Andrew Richdale, GQ, 15 Dec. 2017
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French doors lead to the living room, bathed in light from skylights.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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Those skylights needed to be rigged to open in time with the audio.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
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The airy space has 15-foot ceilings and a skylight to keep the light flooding in by day.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2023
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Sun shines through the skylight above, transforming the piece as the hours slip by.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
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The cozy home office across the hall has two skylights, a closet and a wet bar.
—Linda Hingham, courant.com, 29 Jan. 2018
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The office up at the top has a low glass wall, and then there are skylights behind it.
—Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
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The top floor is one big room with dormer windows and two skylights.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
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The heavy rainfall had pooled atop the roof and was leaking through a skylight above the stairwell.
—Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
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In the largest of the three pools is a glass pyramid that serves as the skylight for the state-of-the-art fitness room below.
—Bess Levin, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2017
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In the largest of the three pools is a glass pyramid that serves as the skylight for the state-of-the-art fitness room below.
—Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 30 Mar. 2017
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There’s an open floor plan, a skylight and a loft bedroom.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
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Hail broke out our skylights and damaged a lot of our cars.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity.com, 10 May 2017
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There is plenty of sun thanks to two walls of windows and a skylight.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2022
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The builder ensured that the kitchen at the back of the house was light and bright by adding skylights as part of the renovation.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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Area rugs, mirrors, and warm-toned wood make the most of the sun coming through these skylights.
—Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2023
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The kitchen has a gas cooktop, a wall oven, a backsplash with white tile and black trim, and a skylight.
—Angela Serratore, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Storage has been redesigned to be more intuitive—cabinets now flip up rather than down—the side and rear windows now open up, and a skylight has been installed above the dinette.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 May 2025
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