Sentence examples for years of sunlight from inspiring English sources

Angel-shaped shadows, etched by years of sunlight, now appear eerily on walls where sculptures have been snatched, haunting the altar like ghosts.

But I had Elida, her intense green stare, her Nordic pallor, even after years of sunlight, her slender, gliding walk, and the dark swerve of her severe haircut.

Years of sunlight had slowly paled the wallpaper in the living room and drained the red from the plastic roses on the sill.

Uranus's weather patterns are so bizarre that, according to Discovery News, the northern hemisphere sees 42 years of sunlight at a time, while the southern hemisphere plunges into 42 years of darkness.

Some places on Earth receive more than 4,000 hours per year of sunlight (more than 90 percent of the maximum possible), as in the Sahara; others receive less than 2,000 hours, as in regions of frequent storminess, such as Scotland and Iceland.

Those come from several hundred million years of stored sunlight, locked away in deceased forests or microbes.

For two and a half centuries we have been living off hundreds of millions of years of stored sunlight.

Its walls had been painted often enough since then, in the abject pastels fashionable among nursing homes, but sometimes in the late afternoon on one wall of my office I could still see, emulsified by years of Los Angeles sunlight, the shadow of a crucifix imprinted in the dust.

The decade that followed the glory years of "In Sunlight and in Shadow" would see the advent of Buddy Holly and Elvis (who dispersed the big-band stardust with floor-stomping rockabilly and swiveling hips) and the emergence of a new enemy (in Southeast Asia, not the Ardennes) who damnably lacked either an ear for Mozart or an eye for Gothic architecture.

If after five years of filtered sunlight a disaster occurred — a drought in India and Pakistan, for example, a possible effect in one of the modeling studies — we would not know whether it was caused by global warming, the solar filter or natural variability.

Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.