Get to know Sun better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like sunlight or sunday.
Sun in a sentence
Related words
Sun meaning
The star that is closest to the Earth.
Synonyms of Sun
Using Sun
- The main meaning on this page is: The star that is closest to the Earth.
- Useful related words include: sunlight, day of rest, rest day, dominicus.
- In the example corpus, sun often appears in combinations such as: the sun, sun and, sun is.
Context around Sun
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sun
- In this selection, "sun" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 34.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, quiet, toronto, calgary, quan, valley and blade stand out and add context to how "sun" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2015 the sun although the, 2019 in sun valley idaho, sun quan, sun exposure and baltimore sun. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sun" sits close to words such as sexual, rock and toward, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sun
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Free weekly community newspapers include the Darwin Sun, the Litchfield Sun, and Palmerston Sun; all published by a News Limited subsidiary. (21 words)
From April 16–30, the paywall will drop on tabloids The Province, Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun, and Winnipeg Sun. (23 words)
Dolores Sanchez ran Eastern Group Publications, which operated the Eastside Sun, the Mexican American Sun, the Commerce Comet, the Bell Gardens Sun and more. (24 words)
Is it because the Earth is too close to the sun during summertime and usually you know over half the class says yeah, that's why we have summer is because the Earth is too close to the sun and too far from the sun in winter time. (48 words)
The Hunter’s Moon appears in the sky opposite to the sun and, since it will be along the horizon at the same time the sun is setting, it should reflect the sun’s bright colors — lighting the moon up like a giant pumpkin just days before Halloween! (48 words)
Many of Sun Ce's subordinates thought that Sun Quan was too young to sustain Sun Ce's domain and wanted to leave, but Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu saw special qualities in the young man and chose to stay to serve Sun Quan. (44 words)
The Hunter’s Moon appears in the sky opposite to the sun and, since it will be along the horizon at the same time the sun is setting, it should reflect the sun’s bright colors — lighting the moon up like a giant pumpkin just days before Halloween! (48 words)
Example sentences (20)
From April 16–30, the paywall will drop on tabloids The Province, Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun, and Winnipeg Sun.
Many of Sun Ce's subordinates thought that Sun Quan was too young to sustain Sun Ce's domain and wanted to leave, but Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu saw special qualities in the young man and chose to stay to serve Sun Quan.
Targets of exploration Image of the Sun from 18 February 2015 The Sun Although the Sun will probably not be physically explored at all, the study of the Sun has nevertheless been a major focus of space exploration.
The Sun cult was the main Illyrian cult, and the Sun was represented by a swastika in clockwise motion, and it stood for the movement of the Sun. citation Slavic Kolovrat or in Polish "Słoneczko" represents the Sun.
Dolores Sanchez ran Eastern Group Publications, which operated the Eastside Sun, the Mexican American Sun, the Commerce Comet, the Bell Gardens Sun and more.
An aerial view of the Sun Valley Resort ahead of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Is it because the Earth is too close to the sun during summertime and usually you know over half the class says yeah, that's why we have summer is because the Earth is too close to the sun and too far from the sun in winter time.
The Hunter’s Moon appears in the sky opposite to the sun and, since it will be along the horizon at the same time the sun is setting, it should reflect the sun’s bright colors — lighting the moon up like a giant pumpkin just days before Halloween!
Another way of understanding the vastness of interstellar distances is by scaling: one of the closest stars to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A (a Sun-like star), can be pictured by scaling down the Earth–Sun distance to one meter (~3.3 ft).
As the year progresses and the Earth moves around the sun, the North Pole gradually turns away from the sun until at midwinter it is facing away from the Sun to its maximum extent.
Free weekly community newspapers include the Darwin Sun, the Litchfield Sun, and Palmerston Sun; all published by a News Limited subsidiary.
He also cut off Sun He and Sun Ba's access to the officials who supported them in hopes of receiving future favors, but this could not stop Sun Ba's machinations.
He was also known as the fifth sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the sun that took over when the fourth sun was expelled from the sky.
In 2006, Sun ventured into the blade server (high density rack-mounted systems) market with the Sun Blade (distinct from the Sun Blade workstation).
Indeed, when Lu Xun tried to intervene to protect Sun He, Sun Ba falsely accused him of many crimes, and Sun Quan became provoked so much that he repeatedly rebuked Lu, causing Lu to die in anger.
Microsoft agreed to pay Sun $20 million, and Sun agreed to grant Microsoft limited license to use Java without modifications only and for a limited time. citation 2002 Sun vs Microsoft Microsoft continued to ship its own unmodified Java virtual machine.
More exactly, they are long thin streamers that project outward from the Sun's north and south poles. citation The quiet Sun The solar regions which are not part of active regions and coronal holes are commonly identified as the quiet Sun.
Most people don't know what the statue "Prizemljeno Sunce" (The Grounded Sun) is for, and just scrawl graffiti or signatures on it, but it's actually the Sun scaled down, with many planets situated all over Zagreb in scale with the Sun.
Over a prolonged internal power struggle, numerous officials were executed, and Sun Quan harshly settled the conflict between the two factions by exiling Sun He and forcing Sun Ba to commit suicide.
Sun main Size comparison of the Sun and the planets The Sun is the Solar System's star and by far its most massive component.
Phrases with sun
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with sun
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sun 219×
- sun and 31×
- sun is 22×
- sun the 15×
- of sun 10×
- sun in 9×
- to sun 9×
- sun quan 8×
- sun to 8×
- sun will 7×