DAYLIGHT in a Sentence

Learn DAYLIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

140 example sentences for DAYLIGHT, such as:

1. It was broad daylight in the room.
2. They robbed the bank in broad daylight.
3. Compared to the true daylight, it is night.
4. It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin.
5. lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept.

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 Meanings and Examples of DAYLIGHT
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daylight
 n.  the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
 n.  light during the daytime
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1  At the end of four-and-twenty hours they saw daylight again, but their canoe was dashed to pieces against the rocks.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVII
2  Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  I know not what vent-hole daylight habitually illumined his soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  It did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
6  It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
7  It was broad daylight in the room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
8  Compared to the true daylight, it is night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
9  Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times in daylight.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
10  lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
11  A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is a college of owls facing the light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
12  Leblanc and his daughter made only a very brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad daylight.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
13  At nightfall he emerged from the hole whither he returned before daylight.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
14  He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of Luxembourg.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE
15  He turned his head, the street was deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he distinctly heard voices.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
Example Sentence:
1  We mustn't fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
2  They robbed the bank in broad daylight.
3  We'll keep on driving while there's still daylight.
4  Cooped up in a small dark cell, the prisoner hadn't seen daylight for five years.
5  The cell block stood just off the L-shaped charge room, a corridor almost completely without daylight.
6  They're shy animals and don't often come out in daylight.
7  His egocentric foibles didn't bother me much, though we were as different as daylight and dark.
8  The comet would flare up as in nears the sun and cause a lightshow that would be visible even in daylight.
9  Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.