Sentence examples for clouds lit from inspiring English sources

Back home, all I could usually see were a few lonely stars fighting against the clouds lit up by a flat dull wash of reflected streetlight.

He was looking up at a sky that was black, filled with smoke-swollen clouds, lit with fires, damped with blood and rain.

We were utterly content to just be there at all, under a canopy of clouds lit from below by the city lights and from above by a full moon.

Then Tadas Daugirdas suggested adding a narrow strip of yellow (to symbolize the rising sun) in between the red (clouds lit up by the morning sun) and green (fields and forests).

At dawn she'd draw all the curtains back for a glimpse of the cloud-lit sea.

Finally, by 3 a.m. after more hard driving, we are on the road to Andapa, and we get our first glimpse of Marojejy Mountain, our destination, partly covered in cloud and lit by a bright half moon.

Back-lit clouds hang heavily, majestically; water rises and curls with elaborate poise or cascades, fine as a gossamer mist, over the surface of rocks.

Then there's the Roman-style statue, standing before dark sand and cloud with its torso lit by sunlight.

"I want to reproduce exactly what I saw at that moment," and points to a particularly amazing photo that his wife has playfully named "The U.F.O.," (its official name is the more poetic, "Celestial Brushstroke") depicting a lone cloud in the sky, lit in the most astounding pinks and oranges.

The finale is a 10-tune Cole Porter songbook built around a sublime "So in Love" in which Porter's yearning melody hovers above a half-lit cloud of pastel-hued harmonies.

And because you've held within your own veins another passage of fire — obliterating mercy — not these lit-up leaf clouds but a hot wire stealing into the deepest chambers of the night — you love the way the asphalt lifts then hurries down toward Deep Lane.