adjective
definition
Illuminated by sunlight.
Examples of sunlit in a Sentence
She looked again at the sunlit courtyard beyond her window.
The purple glow is probably a combination of red-orange light transmitted through the lower atmosphere and scattered blue light from still sunlit stratospheric dust.
The former is a truly accurate timepiece - capable of determining the time to within a minute throughout the sunlit year.
Philip opened his eyes to see the sunlit water twinkling through the trees; they were descending the hill into the small seaside resort.
I think I may claim a small part in his arrival on the sunlit uplands of wider public recognition.
Sitting sipping wine on sunlit terraces overlooking field upon field of endless vineyards.
The general style of coloration of orioles is gaudy yellow and black, rendering them invisible in sunlit foliage, and quite different from the more sombre hues of the friar-birds; but in the islands of Bourou, Timor and Ceram the orioles have not only assumed the tints of friar-birds in general, but in each of the islands named a species of oriole has acquired the little peculiarities in colour of plumage possessed by the friar-bird of the same locality.
You forget that death comes to the rich and the poor alike, and comes once for all; but remember, Acheron could not be bribed by gold to ferry the crafty Prometheus back to the sunlit world.
From the top of the hill where I stood I saw my army surging over a sunlit plain like angry breakers, and as they moved, I saw the green of fields, like the cool hollows between billows.
Occasionally we stop to look back south and west, where dramatic cloudscapes consist of equal parts sunlit patches and ghostly gray showers.
One look at Filey 's Crescent and you will feel uplifted, especially on a sunlit morning with the ornamental gardens in the foreground.
As the five battleships steamed up slowly over the blue sunlit waters the flagship signaled to the Potemkin.
Read on, and come with us to the sunlit uplands of good vibes that we call The Scriberazone...
The result is a soft, sunlit glow with a hint of shimmer.
As days go by, the proportion of the Moon 's sunlit side that is visible from Earth changes.
The immediate effect of this is rather like stepping straight from a glorious, sunlit, flower-filled meadow into a treacherous bog.
Part of what I loved about this place was the garden that adjoined it a hidden, sunlit nook surrounded by mature sycamore trees.
We read and studied out of doors, preferring the sunlit woods to the house.
This formula smells like sunlit fields and really coats the hair, so individuals with fine hair may experience an undesirable flattening effect.