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Definition of sunless in English: sunlessadjective ˈsʌnləsˈsənləs 1Without any sun. Example sentencesExamples - Sunday morning was sunless and nearly cold, so we didn't even try to look for any more herbs.
- Come winter, he'll have to brave a frigid, largely sunless climate.
- Poor seasons in cool climates are usually both sunless and cold.
- It was what seemed to be another bleak, sunless and chill winter morning in Moscow.
- The day was sunless, bitter, snow-spitting.
- Christine Margreiter runs a florist's shop in town but lives in a sunnier town nearby where she makes up for sunless weekdays by hiking and gardening.
- They will travel as far away as 750 miles through the sunless winter, not to return until the new spring.
- For the inhabitants of Gibraltar this means humid and sunless weather, greatly increasing human stress levels
- But in our sunless summer of 2007, hailstones shredded the leaves of my teenage beans.
- They are stuck instead for a sunless winter on an ice floe.
- We hold hands, me and her, both looking up at the blue, sunless sky; both with the grass under our backs; both wondering who will be the last to go.
- Marko Nyberg, founder of Husky Rescue, describes his music as being ' like spring's sunbeam after the long dark sunless winter time '.
- With Somerset going through one of its soggy stages, damp, mostly sunless and almost completely without cheer, sleep is a commodity I'm valuing rather highly these past few days.
- We've had a few dreary, sunless summers and there are people who feel they'll go stone mad if they don't get their annual sunshine fix.
- Some say the old warhorses of the energy age, coal and nuclear power stations, will still be needed to cope with windless, sunless, waveless days.
- The next 10 days were dull and sunless the severe spell becoming a distant memory.
- You know, I've 43 minutes left in my evening here - then it's downstairs for entertainment, and after an annoying, drizzly sunless day, I need entertainment.
- This is a more up-beat way of looking at the region's temperature, which can fall to - 51 Celsius in a six-month, sunless winter.
- The battery bank must be sized to absorb the influx of wind-generated electricity and bridge the gap of windless (and sunless) periods.
- Move the bed each sunless day.
Synonyms dark, overcast, cloudy, grey, gloomy, dismal, dreary, murky, hazy, louring, lowering shady, shadowy, dark, dim, dingy, gloomy, dull, ill-lit - 1.1 (of a place) receiving no sunlight.
the windowless, sunless headquarters Example sentencesExamples - Action in the Gothic novel tends to take place at night, or at least in a claustrophobic, sunless environment.
- What drew these artists into sunless caverns and tunnels sometimes less than a metre high has been the subject of vigorous argument.
- Repelled by the sunless, cramped conditions in the cities, well-intended architects became obsessed with order.
- Most climbing roses need full sun, but there are a few that can handle a north-facing, sunless wall.
- In winter, you should move your Maranta to a well-lit but sunless spot.
- Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
- Dense clouds shroud Titan's surface, making it mysterious and sunless as well.
- Over the past year this chilly, sunless corridor has often been crowded with men dressed in jailhouse smocks, chained in a line at the ankles, waist and wrists.
- Sulphurous yellow sphagnum moss made a dayglo splash against the dull greens and browns of the sunless upland bog.
- A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- The dark sky in Oshima Meteorological Station evokes a sunless world, a place where it is always night.
- Between house and garage there was a gate and narrow path which led into a rough yard, rendered sunless by a tall hedge and large sycamore tree.
- The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
- The project was very time consuming and always seemed to end up with us spending the summer sitting in front of a computer in some sunless basement.
- It was described by one visitor as a "spare, sunless, almost shabby cubicle, as unrelentingly masculine as the lifelong bachelor who occupies it."
- Olde England must have been a sunless maze that stretched from Penzance to Carlisle.
- We have risen from the sunless depths, and now hang suspended, beneath the waves.
- The house was sunless.
- It is used only in the cold, sunless north.
- Cunning things thrive in sunless dungeons
Derivatives noun The sunlessness of life in West Berlin is an observable thing. Example sentencesExamples - Instead, the first two teams to take the field in the Six Nations this year trotted uncertainly into the watery sunlessness of a late winter afternoon in France and played with a lack of enlightenment that raised the question of why anyone ever thought of Paris as the ‘City of Light.’
- The small, isolated community is slowing down in preparation for a month of total sunlessness, an annual occurrence that prompts the temporary departure of many citizens.
- All around us things flowered in the misty gray, red, orange, pink and blue, as though shouting against the sunlessness of the day.
- Where exactly these sites are located on the stage is seldom clear, though it does seem incontestable that, while they are associated morally with darkness and vice and sometimes physically with sunlessness, they can only serve their purpose if they are clearly visible to the audience.
Definition of sunless in US English: sunlessadjectiveˈsənləsˈsənləs 1Without any sun. Example sentencesExamples - Some say the old warhorses of the energy age, coal and nuclear power stations, will still be needed to cope with windless, sunless, waveless days.
- Come winter, he'll have to brave a frigid, largely sunless climate.
- Poor seasons in cool climates are usually both sunless and cold.
- You know, I've 43 minutes left in my evening here - then it's downstairs for entertainment, and after an annoying, drizzly sunless day, I need entertainment.
- The battery bank must be sized to absorb the influx of wind-generated electricity and bridge the gap of windless (and sunless) periods.
- Sunday morning was sunless and nearly cold, so we didn't even try to look for any more herbs.
- For the inhabitants of Gibraltar this means humid and sunless weather, greatly increasing human stress levels
- The day was sunless, bitter, snow-spitting.
- The next 10 days were dull and sunless the severe spell becoming a distant memory.
- Marko Nyberg, founder of Husky Rescue, describes his music as being ' like spring's sunbeam after the long dark sunless winter time '.
- They will travel as far away as 750 miles through the sunless winter, not to return until the new spring.
- We've had a few dreary, sunless summers and there are people who feel they'll go stone mad if they don't get their annual sunshine fix.
- They are stuck instead for a sunless winter on an ice floe.
- With Somerset going through one of its soggy stages, damp, mostly sunless and almost completely without cheer, sleep is a commodity I'm valuing rather highly these past few days.
- We hold hands, me and her, both looking up at the blue, sunless sky; both with the grass under our backs; both wondering who will be the last to go.
- It was what seemed to be another bleak, sunless and chill winter morning in Moscow.
- Move the bed each sunless day.
- Christine Margreiter runs a florist's shop in town but lives in a sunnier town nearby where she makes up for sunless weekdays by hiking and gardening.
- But in our sunless summer of 2007, hailstones shredded the leaves of my teenage beans.
- This is a more up-beat way of looking at the region's temperature, which can fall to - 51 Celsius in a six-month, sunless winter.
Synonyms dark, overcast, cloudy, grey, gloomy, dismal, dreary, murky, hazy, louring, lowering shady, shadowy, dark, dim, dingy, gloomy, dull, ill-lit - 1.1 (of a place) receiving no sunlight.
the windowless, sunless headquarters Example sentencesExamples - Sulphurous yellow sphagnum moss made a dayglo splash against the dull greens and browns of the sunless upland bog.
- Action in the Gothic novel tends to take place at night, or at least in a claustrophobic, sunless environment.
- Dense clouds shroud Titan's surface, making it mysterious and sunless as well.
- Cunning things thrive in sunless dungeons
- The project was very time consuming and always seemed to end up with us spending the summer sitting in front of a computer in some sunless basement.
- The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
- It is used only in the cold, sunless north.
- Between house and garage there was a gate and narrow path which led into a rough yard, rendered sunless by a tall hedge and large sycamore tree.
- The dark sky in Oshima Meteorological Station evokes a sunless world, a place where it is always night.
- A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Most climbing roses need full sun, but there are a few that can handle a north-facing, sunless wall.
- We have risen from the sunless depths, and now hang suspended, beneath the waves.
- Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
- Over the past year this chilly, sunless corridor has often been crowded with men dressed in jailhouse smocks, chained in a line at the ankles, waist and wrists.
- The house was sunless.
- Olde England must have been a sunless maze that stretched from Penzance to Carlisle.
- Repelled by the sunless, cramped conditions in the cities, well-intended architects became obsessed with order.
- What drew these artists into sunless caverns and tunnels sometimes less than a metre high has been the subject of vigorous argument.
- It was described by one visitor as a "spare, sunless, almost shabby cubicle, as unrelentingly masculine as the lifelong bachelor who occupies it."
- In winter, you should move your Maranta to a well-lit but sunless spot.
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