How to Use sunless in a Sentence

sunless

adjective
  • This is what the world looks like at the ocean’s sunless depths.
    James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
  • Even on the days of sunless mist, there are living things out there that are ready to brighten your day.
    Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Its hangar can hold three miniature submarines for taking humans into the sunless depths.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The camera lights illuminate the sunless landscape in a way that suggests a sci-fi movie.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Hoel looked so pale Jian often wondered if the woman had seen anything but the inside of a sunless lab for the last thirty years.
    Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • Instead, it's housed on a server in some unknown probably dank and sunless location.
    John Patrick Pullen, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The giant plastic spheres and, in at least one case, a hemisphere, are opening eyes to the sunless depths of the ocean and leading to discoveries.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Instead the team spent those sunless early-morning hours verifying its results.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Olson connected in the bottom half on another smoky, sunless day that had the strange sight of ballpark lights on in the afternoon.
    Janie McCauley, Houston Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2020
  • On land, there were several years of freezing temperatures and sunless skies, not to mention the tsunamis and worldwide wildfires.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • No one is winking or making fun, despite the fact that this father and son are extolling the beauty of the morning while inside a sunless bunker six miles underground.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Today there are more than 200 private submersibles operating around the world and a dozen companies selling tours to the sunless depths.
    James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
  • During the long, sunless Arctic winter, temperatures normally plunge far below zero; sea ice thickens and spreads.
    Tim Folger, National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2017
  • What governs the sunless vistas is not a peaceable kingdom but a fierce contest for life, occasionally made vivid for us by the fiery, bioluminescent nature of its display.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • To the villagers along the Iditarod’s remote, often sunless trails, Mountain is just another musher on a sled helmed by 14 dogs.
    NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Cosmetic sunless tanners, such as bronzers and sunless tanner lotions, are considered safe when used appropriately.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
  • As for applying baby oil or a sunless tanner before spending time in the sun, as some TikTokers suggest, Houshman strongly advised against it.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Unlike the splotchy, bright orange fake tans of the early to mid 2000s, today’s sunless tanning products are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    Cristina Montemayor, SELF, 27 May 2022
  • Soon, however, a revolutionary new telescope launching in 2025 may be able unlock the secrets of the darkness of space, where sunless worlds may even outnumber the stars.
    Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The sunless winter caused extraordinary disorientation; her imagination conjured phantoms from the dark.
    Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Services include sunless spray tanning, European bronzing beds, stand-up sun booths, and spa services such as photo facials and FIT (far infrared technology) bodywrap.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Instead, Parker recommended sticking with a sunless tanner that contains the ingredient dihydroxyacetone (DHA).
    Gillian Mohney, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025

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