Sunlit
['sʌnlɪt]
Definition
(adj.) lighted by sunlight; 'the sunlit slopes of the canyon'; 'violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges'- Wallace Stegner .
Checker: Vernon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Lighted by the sun.
Edited by Horace
Examples
- It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare blushes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was waiting until the officer reached the sunlit place where the first trees of the pine forest joined the green slope of the meadow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They are still dependent on water for their reproduction; their eggs must be laid in sunlit water, and there they must develop. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Edited by Horace