Word Finder - sun

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A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.

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The light and warmth which is received from the sun.

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Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.

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Sunrise or sunset.

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The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.

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The thirty-first Lenormand card.

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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.

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Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.

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• apricate

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To warm or dry in the sunshine.

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To be exposed to the sun.

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To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

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The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.

The sun was warm.

When she opened her eyes the sun was directly overhead.

The evening sun made eerie shapes in the forested landscape.

When she woke again, the sun was shining on her face.

The white sand reflected the hot sun back at them until they were dripping with perspiration.

The sun is but a morning star.

The sun will be up soon.

They would not awake until the sun had smiled lovingly upon them.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

Perhaps I shall make do with those that remain here before I follow the sun westward.

The sun had by now risen and shone gaily on the bright verdure.

It seemed to me that there could be nothing more beautiful than the sun, whose warmth makes all things grow.

They'd been there what felt like a day, and yet the sun was in the same position as when they'd been thrown into the world.

But I am a patient man and the sun is shining, the brook that fronts my home on wheels is singing.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Speck's sector headquarters was abuzz with activity; the only private place to talk was the back porch overlooking a field of knee-high winter wheat facing a sun setting too early.

The sun had set long since.

I don't know if the sun will shine on a long term relationship but Betsy is pleased to baby sit Molly while the romance dance is orchestrated.

The sun turned the dunes orange red and then quickly sank, leaving them in pre-moon darkness.

Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.

The sun baked them with ever intensifying heat.

Oh, the delight with which I gathered up the fruit in my pinafore, pressed my face against the smooth cheeks of the apples, still warm from the sun, and skipped back to the house!

As he joined her they squinted into the heat waves, shielding their eyes against the bright sun - trying to discern something of the shadows below the plume.

The sun was directly overhead.

It took too much effort to look up at the sun to measure time.

The sun was trying to force its way through the curtains.

She dressed as the sun was sending its first rays through the bathroom window.

The sun lingered on the horizon, as if waiting for the closing clouds.

The sun was red.

Does the sun shine in your country?

The rays of the sun fell upon the trees, so that the twigs sparkled like diamonds and dropped in showers when we touched them.

My "best" room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house.

I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out.

Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

The sun shone straight into Pierre's face.

She selected an off-the-shoulder lilac colored sun dress that Alex liked.

In the morning she rolled out of her bed before the sun could stain the sky.

She withdrew, and he felt the loss of her presence like the sun going behind a cloud.

The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my upturned face.

I should like very much to see you to-day Is the sun very hot in Boston now? this afternoon if it is cool enough I shall take Mildred for a ride on my donkey.

Once, while we were out on the water, the sun went down over the rim of the earth, and threw a soft, rosy light over the White City, making it look more than ever like Dreamland....

Sun must go to bed.

I will come to see you when the sun shines.

I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular.

They would begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, referred to the setting of the sun, every evening.

Early in May, the oaks, hickories, maples, and other trees, just putting out amidst the pine woods around the pond, imparted a brightness like sunshine to the landscape, especially in cloudy days, as if the sun were breaking through mists and shining faintly on the hillsides here and there.

Cassie felt the warmth of the sun as her cloud descended to the ranch.

Mary strode down the path toward them, a hand shielding the sun from her eyes.

The sun set too early on the autumn day, and she finished the trip to Doolin in darkness.

She retreated to the patio and fled into the house, relieved when the sun was gone.