Use sun in a sentence
Sentences starting with sun
- Sun of our life, thy quickening ray Sheds on our path the glow of day; Star of our hope, thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night. [6]
Sentences ending with sun
- I do believe you have come on foot in the burning sun. [10]
- Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun. [10]
- Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
- In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
- Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
- Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
- I repeat it, whoever is begged or bribed into disobedience will not see the light of to-morrow's sun. [10]
- He it was who, like a brimful vessel, overflowed with the quintessence of what we call divine; and from this effluence emanated the divine Mind, the pure intelligence which is to the One what light is to the sun. [10]
- Most of those who were out and about were going in the opposite direction; they meant to await the grand reception of Caracalla at the eastern end of the city, on his way from the Kanopic Gate to the Gate of the Sun. [10]
- There was silence while the breakfast things were cleared away, and the window was thrown wide to the full morning sun. [11]
Short sentences using sun
- The morning sun was hot. [4]
- He looked at the sun. [11]
- She is like the sun. [10]
- Up with the sun. [5]
- Then the sun set. [10]
- O great Sun, pity me! [11]
- The sun was now setting. [5]
- The sun was just rising. [5]
- The sun does it all. [4]
- The sun was going down. [10]
Sentences containing sun two or more times
- The world was white with sun and ice, the frost never melting, the sun never warming--just a glitter, so lovely, so deadly. [11]
- The day was very cloudy and the sun threw no shadows at all; but the man was satisfied that if the sun had come out and made shadows it could not have made any for him. [5]
- She was the sun that melted the frozen torrents and set them boiling; with that sun removed, they froze again, and the army and all France became what they had been before, mere dead corpses--that and nothing more; incapable of thought, hope, ambition, or motion. [5]
- The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
- Out from him sprang the sun and moon; from man the sun, from woman the moon. [6]
- Our love Must kindle in the ray that streams from heaven, A faint reflection of the light divine; The sun must warm the earth before the rose Can show her inmost heart-leaves to the sun. [6]
- Each day fleecy clouds floated across the sky and occasionally veiled the sun, but toward evening the sky cleared again and the sun set in reddish-brown mist. [2]
- Old men pass and young men come; Yea, a new Sun rises daily When the old sun has found rest In the bosom of the night. [10]
- The late September and October sun of this latitude is something like the sun of extreme Lower Italy: you can stand a good deal of it, and apparently soak a winter supply into the system. [4]
More example sentences with the word sun in them
- And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
- Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
- There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
- Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
- How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
- So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
- Sun, Herald, Times, World, Harper Brothers and John F. Trow; also to the proprietors of the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe. [5]
- Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
- The summer departed with the sun, and winter came with the stars. [5]
- The woman clothed with the sun will be a portrait of Mrs. Eddy. [5]
- And it's back with the ring of the chain and the spur, And it's back with the sun on the hill and the moor, And it's back is the thought sets my pulses astir,-- But I'll never go back to Farcalladen more! [11]
- The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
- To drop in with a poor little moral at the fag-end of such a gorgeous massacre was like following the expiring sun with a candle and hope to attract the world's attention to it. [5]
- We will uphold William with our fortunes and our lives for, as I have already said, we need a sun, that is, a monarch--but the cities think they have power to shine and wish to be admired as bright stars themselves. [10]
- You poor souls will have a bad time now, for the sun of my life has lost its light and the trees by the way-side have lost their verdure. [10]
- The king-one of whose titles was "Son of the Sun,"--was as radiant as the sun himself. [10]
- Happy is he whose pathway at the beginning of life's evening is once more so brilliantly illumined by the sun of love. [10]
- There are, those who would like to live in this free fashion forever, taking rain and sun as heaven pleases; and there are some souls so constituted that they cannot exist more than three days without their worldly--baggage. [4]
- The day passes while one is deciding how to spend it, and the sun over Heiligenberg goes down on his purpose. [4]
- Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
- The streets along which they passed in the pale morning light were now deserted, and a film of mist, behind which glowed the golden light of the newly risen sun, shrouded the horizon. [10]
- In a corner, which seemed to catch the sun, was a bird-cage on a pole, sought by pigeons and doves. [11]
- Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
- In the garden, which is a room of the house, the tall callas, rooted in the ground, stand about the fountain; the sun, streaming through the glass, illumines the many-hued flowers. [4]
- The romantic traits which I have attributed to the character of my hero, who travelled throughout the world, climbing mountains to rejoice in the splendor of he rising sun, are authentic. [10]
- We shall see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you somewhere nearer the sun. [2]
- It is noon when we set out from Visp, in true pilgrim fashion, and the sun is at first hot; but as we slowly rise up the easy ascent, we get a breeze, and forget the heat in the varied charms of the walk. [4]
- The day came when we had checked off the Posilipo, and the Grotto, Pozzuoli, Baiae, Cape Misenum, the Museum, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Herculaneum, the moderns buried at the Campo Santo; and we said, Let us go and lie in the sun at Sorrento. [4]
- Uarda still lay, when the sun was sinking, in front of the hut. [10]
- And at length, when the sun was beginning visibly to fall, they came out into an open cut on the western side and saw again the long line of Coniston once more against the sky. [9]
- One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
- In the evening, when the sun settled red upon the horizon, I would think of Patty and my friends in Gloucester Street. [9]
- Two good friends when the sun grows bright Vive la compagnie! [11]
- Through the days, when the sun beat upon the awning with a tropical fierceness, when Monsieur Vigo abandoned himself to his siestas, I thought. [9]
- There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
- On the days when his letters came it was as his emissary that the sun shone to give her light in darkness, and she went about the house with a song on her lips. [9]
- In the morning, when he descended the trail, he found the sun was pouring a golden stream of light through the arch of the great stone bridge. [13]
- Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
- The forest pools were cracked and dry, the Spanish moss was a haggard gray, and under the sun was the haze which covered the land like a saffron mantle. [9]
- The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. [5]
- As the sun went down, the cripple went out upon a long journey alone. [11]
- When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
- As the sun went down and the evening chill came on, we made preparation for bed. [5]
- Then the sun went behind Posilipo in a perfect blaze of scarlet, and all the sea was violet. [4]
- If all was well with Dalice a little fire should be lighted at the house door just at the going down of the sun, and it should be at once put out. [11]
- The sun was well up when we got to the exhibition-ground. [5]
- Clothing suitable for wear in the sun should be provided. [5]
- We were both weak through want of food and the effect of the sun. [5]
- One day, as we were crossing a dike between rice swamps spread with delicate green, I saw the white tops of wagons flashing in the sun at the far end of it. [9]
- Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
- They point the way; and when we emerge from the wood, St. Maria a Castello is before us on a height, its white and red church shining in the sun. [4]
- I'm going to watch the sun rise again to-morrow, my darling. [11]
- Veiled as it was, it was still patent as the sun. [11]
- The old man was yet asleep, and as she was unwilling to disturb him, she left him to slumber on, until the sun rose. [12]
- As the sun was wearing down to the western ridges the mischievous sorrel mare turned her pack on a sapling, and one of the precious bags burst. [9]
- Sirona's window alone was touched by the morning sun. [10]
- To us she was the sun soaring in the heavens, and her new nobility a candle atop of it; to us it was swallowed up and lost in her own light. [5]
- Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb of the sun. [2]
- Besides, the atmosphere was sultry, and the scorching sun struggled with the thunderclouds gathering in heavy masses at the north. [10]
- The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. [11]
- One day he was sitting on the hot side of a pine near his mountain hut, soaking in the sun. [11]
- The February sun was shining into the lofty window, where Titian seated himself to talk more gaily than before with Paolo Cagliari, Veronese, and other great artists and nobles. [10]
- The April sun was shining brightly when the convent gates closed behind Kuni. [10]
- As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
- Before the sun was quite down, Joan's forever memorable day's work was finished, her banner floated from the fortress of the Tourelles, her promise was fulfilled, she had raised the siege of Orleans! [5]
- Overhead, the sun was pouring out a flood of light and warmth, and though it was bitterly cold, life was beating hard in the bosom of the West. [11]
- The sun himself was pleased to hail that last morning of the great council, and beamed with torrid tolerance upon the ceremony of kindling the greatest of the fires. [9]
- Albeit the sun was not yet set, it was presently so dark that lights had been brought in and fifty tapers in the silver candlesticks added to the heat. [10]
- When the sun was nearing the horizon Hornecht entered the garden. [10]
- And how proud was Melissa to speak of the bright young artist, who till now had been the sun of her joyless life! [10]
- That old life was lonely and primitive, but it had its compensating balance of bright sun, wild animal life, and an air as vivid and virile as ever stirred the veins of man. [11]
- Half the street was in shadow, the other half brightly lit by the sun. [2]
- If his prayer was heard, and his Majesty should decide to battle for the holiest cause, sorrowful anxieties would vanish from his pathway as the mists of dawn scatter before the rising sun. [10]
- As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert--from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean--as the "jackass rabbit. [5]
- The setting sun was flaming upon it, a Summer shower was falling, and it was spanned by two magnificent rainbows. [5]
- When the sun was falling below Little Red Hill, Macavoy came to Wonta's tent. [11]
- When the sun was fairly down, we slipped back to the hotel in the charitable gloaming, and went to bed again. [5]
- The general confusion was distracting; as the sun rose, the anguish, physical and mental, of the whole family greatly increased, and by noon had reached an appalling pitch. [10]
- While it yet was day, and we breathed in freedom and gladness, While the sun still shone, that light seemed small and dim; But now, when night has fallen, sinister, dark, portentous, Its kindly ray beams forth to raise our drooping souls. [10]
- The lower half was closed, the upper open, and the winter sun was shining full into the room, where a bright fire burned. [11]
- The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
- When the sun was approaching the western horizon the travellers started. [10]
- Now the sun was already high in the heavens, yet she did not return, though it was long past the time for the bandages to be renewed, and the drops to be given which sustained the life of the dying Minorite in the adjoining room. [10]
- But my father was a white man, and I am a white man's daughter, and I would rather marry an Indian, who would think me the best thing there was in the light of the sun, than marry you. [11]
- The sun still warmed us, the air was still grateful and life-giving. [6]
- Who, if the warm sun were extinguished, would instantly remember that the moon and stars remain? [10]
- There is not wanting even a lake; and there is, I am sorry to say, a temple on a mound, quite in the classic style, from which one can see the sun set behind the many spires of Munich. [4]
- As the day waned, a heavy cloud hid the sun, and so let down the light that the waters were a dark purple. [4]
- I thought some wandering soul was calling me that had not yet returned to the nether world, for it is not till the sun rises that spirits are scared away. [10]
- Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
- Outside these prison walls-to be out there in the sun, where life would be easier to give up, if it had to be given up! [11]
- With fear she walks in the sun, For Raoul is ninety year, And she not twenty-one. [11]
- Henceforth she must walk in the scorching sun without protection or shelter. [10]
- It was a wail of sorrow, a march to the grave, a benediction, a soft sound of farewell, floating through the room and dying away into the mid-day sun. [11]
- Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
- Of one such visit Howells wrote: "In the good-fellowship of that cordial neighborhood we had two such days as the aging sun no longer shines on in his round. [5]
- There was the village green in the cool evening light, and the flagstaff with its tip silvered by the departing sun. [9]
- The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety. [10]
- At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
- Annunciation is the very last place under the sun. [5]
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