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US
/ˈdeɪˌɫaɪt/
]
[ UK /dˈeɪlaɪt/ ]
[ UK /dˈeɪlaɪt/ ]
NOUN
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the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
the dawn turned night into day - light during the daytime
How To Use daylight In A Sentence
- After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Of course, daylight savings time will never go away, because modern environmentalism has become more a matter of making empty feel-good gestures than performing rational acts that actually improve something. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time
- Whereas the British want to see children's faces light up with joy, those foreign johnnies prefer to scare the living daylights out of them.
- They're shy animals and don't often come out in daylight.
- To fly with such a burden in daylight is simply to court disaster. Development of Aircraft in War
- A masculine voice inquired from somewhere to her left, effectively scaring the living daylights out of Sydney and drawing a startled yelp from her lips.
- It was a strip of gaudy landscaping in front of a strip mall in glaring bright daylight.
- All unrealizable, save for some supreme moment, did the web of Daylight's personality creep out and around her. Chapter XV
- Painting is best done in daylight.
- Today is the winter solstice, the day with the shortest length of daylight in the year. Times, Sunday Times
