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Recent Examples of starry Another star-favorite spot, Jackson Hole, Wyo., a little over an hour east, is the perfect starry end point to this journey and has all the creature comforts and then some after a long trek. Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 28 June 2025 Back in the game, the blue players enter a room with a starry ceiling and brick walls covered in childish handwriting and drawings. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025 Artists Equity has only been around for three years, but in that span the company has created a number of starry projects designed to create more equity for the artists that actually create them (hence the name). Brian Welk, IndieWire, 26 June 2025 At liftoff, the rocket's nine Merlin engines carried the Falcon 9 high into the starry Florida sky, pushing through Earth's atmosphere to complete its first phase of flight within the first two minutes. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for starry
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Adjective
  • Both artists sing on the album, their celestial voices braiding in with delicate instrumentation.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 18 July 2025
  • According to the American Meteor Society, this celestial event is the most popular meteor shower.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rent pedal boats and kayaks, take a glass-bottom boat tour, or go on a romantic gondola cruise around the harbor.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2025
  • This week American Ballet Theater is coming to Orange Country’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts July 24-27 to perform the classic romantic ballet Giselle.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • The typically stellar defender can’t afford to do so on the other side of the ball, too.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
  • Picturesque views of the Las Vegas Strip are largely limited to rooms, but at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas, beautiful panoramic vistas are also accompanied by stellar cocktails and bites.
    Christina Liao, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, for many travelers who take only one or two flights a year, that's impractical advice.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.
    Sally C. Pipes, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • So how many interstellar objects might Rubin actually detect?
    Andrew Jones, Space.com, 18 July 2025
  • That’s much larger than the two previous interstellar objects, ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and comet 2I/Borisov in 2019.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The comments brought Marte to tears, and the star second baseman was consoled on the mound by Diamondbacks’ manager Torey Lovullo during a pitching change.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
  • There have been a lot of rumors and speculation growing about the potential that the Boston Red Sox will shop their star third baseman, Alex Bregman, at the trade deadline.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025

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“Starry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starry. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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