Sunstone in a sentence

Sunstone meaning

1. A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
2. A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.

Using Sunstone

• The main meaning on this page is: A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone. | A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.
• Useful related words include: aventurine, quartz, transparent gem.
• In the example corpus, sunstone often appears in combinations such as: sunstone hotel, in sunstone.

Context around Sunstone

• Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
• Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 0 end
• Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Sunstone

• In this selection, "sunstone" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, hotel, polarized and press stand out and add context to how "sunstone" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include holdings in sunstone hotel investors and impact on sunstone hotel s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "sunstone" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.