How To Use Winter solstice In A Sentence
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The winter solstice sets up brilliant chances to live the life you dream of.
The Sun
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Technically, new year should be the day after the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the cold lands of the north, the winter solstice has been the stuff of fearful legend since stories began.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, astronomer Galileo Galilei was languishing under house arrest for suggesting the Earth circled the sun.
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The weather scuppered the viewing of the winter solstice sunset from Maeshowe on Tuesday, with low cloud and rain making for an unspectacular event.
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During the winter months the Full Moon culminates higher and higher in the sky until it reaches its maximum height throughout the year at the full Moon nearest the winter solstice.
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From the look in the opposite direction just on winter solstice the sun is down.
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The festival itself I have no quarrel with; good old hijacked midwinter solstice feast that it is.
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A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.
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The winter solstice sets up brilliant chances to live the life you dream of.
The Sun
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By month's end, though, the rapidly shortening days in the onrush to the winter solstice leave the planet setting more than an hour and a half after the Sun.
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Said hyphenate's name is Josh, and his film, Winter Solstice, is about the millionth variation on a tried-and-true template.
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Today is the winter solstice, the day with the shortest length of daylight in the year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The seasons are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, with the start of each season noted as vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice.
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It makes us realise summer is now a memory and that the year is in inexorable decline towards the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right now the Earth is nearer the sun at the northern winter solstice than it is at the southern winter solstice.
The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
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Today is the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eurus blows from D, coming from the point where the sun rises at the winter solstice.
Meteorology
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Thousands of spectators gazed up at the sky to witness the beginning of the winter solstice.
The Sun
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Might there be a connection, then, between the feasts of the winter solstice and the desire to protect against the infections it brings?
Times, Sunday Times
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And it was also the winter solstice, the first time this has coincided with a total lunar eclipse for 372 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ma goat industry of Muma Mountain was pushed forwards greatly because the coming of huge migration of Di people and the folk custom of having mutton in the Winter Solstice formed gradually.
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Since both CHANike and Christmas were originally winter solstice celebrations, they often coincide and compete.
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In the Han Dynasty(206BC---220AD), "Lari" fell on the day three weeks after Winter Solstice, which was actually hard to pin down or remember.
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Today is the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the winter solstice, and at the time when the zephyr usually begins to blow, severe winterly storms out of season, with much northerly wind, snow, continued and copious rains; the sky tempestuous and clouded; these things were protracted, and did not remit until the equinox.
Of The Epidemics
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Right now the Earth is nearer the sun at the northern winter solstice than it is at the southern winter solstice.
The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
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Thus Caecias and in general the winds north of the summer solstice blow about the time of the spring equinox, but about the autumn equinox Lips; and Zephyrus about the summer solstice, but about the winter solstice Eurus.
Meteorology
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The ring is about 30 feet in diameter and aligned to the winter solstice sunset.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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Ever since the winter solstice last Dec. 22, the days have been getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the noonday sun has climbed higher in the sky.
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For al-Battani refraction had little effect on his meridian observations at the winter solstice because, at his more southerly site of ar-Raqqah, the sun was higher in the sky.
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The best known feature of Newgrange today is its orientation to the winter solstice sunrise.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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While I am pretty sure nobody would want to read a blog made up of my observations about the challenges of living with an epileptic dog, favorite recipes for Winter Solstice, instructions for striking cuttings from a frangipani, or best ways to play ‘teddy bears go to the doctor’ with a three year old, I expect some of you do quite enjoy my writerly posts on this site.
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It makes us realise summer is now a memory and that the year is in inexorable decline towards the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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The monument was orientated to mark sunrise at the midsummer solstice (and sunset at the midwinter solstice), but whether it has further astronomical significance is debatable.
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Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic.
A Field Book of the Stars
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And it was also the winter solstice, the first time this has coincided with a total lunar eclipse for 372 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of spectators gazed up at the sky to witness the beginning of the winter solstice.
The Sun
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Lily of the Valley" and "Winter Solstice Angel" are two exclusive designs ...
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The days begin to draw out after the winter solstice.
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Since both CHANike and Christmas were originally winter solstice celebrations, they often coincide and compete.
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Instead of a January to December calendar year, the Almanac relied on a tropical year defined as running from one winter solstice to the next.
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Winter solstice is a Chinese festival … on December 11, 2006 at 1: 32 pm | Reply PC Bitseach
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Today is the winter solstice, the day with the shortest length of daylight in the year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely the winter solstice must also be the coldest day of the year?
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of spectators gazed up at the sky to witness the beginning of the winter solstice.
The Sun
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The architecture of the temple of Janus was determined by the solstitial rectangle of the construction place, associated with the sunrise and sunset at summer and winter solstices.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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Across the cold lands of the north, the winter solstice has been the stuff of fearful legend since stories began.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ma goat industry of Muma Mountain was pushed forwards greatly because the coming of huge migration of Di people and the folk custom of having mutton in the Winter Solstice formed gradually.
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Might there be a connection, then, between the feasts of the winter solstice and the desire to protect against the infections it brings?
Times, Sunday Times
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Herakles aka Hercules in Roman mythology was born at the Winter Solstice, sacrificed at the Spring Equinox, rose again and ascended into heaven to be with his divine father.
Archive 2009-12-01
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A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.
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The ring is about 30 feet in diameter and aligned to the winter solstice sunset.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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The solstices, you will remember, are two in each year, the aestival or summer solstice, and the hyemal or winter solstice.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps
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The winter solstice sets up brilliant chances to live the life you dream of.
The Sun
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Technically, new year should be the day after the winter solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely the winter solstice must also be the coldest day of the year?
Times, Sunday Times
