see daylight
Example Sentences
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It dawns on him that he’s in a new, bizarre, just-for-him reality, and he won’t see daylight until he can spot the anomalies in each go-round.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
They could not see daylight and had no way to work out if it was day or night.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
Barely two months later, the Nittany Lions have plummeted into a hole so deep they can barely see daylight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
That makes it highly unlikely that "Die Hard," if it were pitched fresh in 2023, would see daylight, let alone a summer.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023
I can see daylight coming through the boarded-up plywood and I cover Freak with my arms and just dive right through that plywood, wham.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
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