SUN in a Sentence

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For SUN, below is one of 383 sentences:
The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sun
 n.  the star that provides light and heat for the earth and around which the earth moves
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was part of the sun's red and of the pure glitter on the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  The lane passed into a pine-wood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She sat down on the tree-trunk in the sun and he sat down beside her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  As they drove away the sun sank behind the hill and the pine-boles turned from red to grey.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Once he found her mouth again, and they seemed to be by the pond together in the burning August sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  The sun was now below the horizon and the red glow at the rim of the world faded into pink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
16  The earth rotates around the sun.
17  When you go out in the hot sun, you should always put cream on your skin to avoid getting sunburnt.
18  The snow soon melted away when the sun came out.
19  The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
20  The sun beat down mercilessly on the dry earth.
21  The sun beat down with fierce intensity.
22  The colours become mellow as the sun went down.
23  The sun was rising when we got to the top of the mountain.
24  On Wednesday there will be a total/partial eclipse of the sun.
25  The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
26  A single tree gave shade from the sun.
27  What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and notyhing done.
28  Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
29  Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.
30  The sun, a lamp, or an electric heater all warm us by radiation.