sunless

Example Sentences

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And in Aberdeen there has been no reported sunshine since 21 January - the longest sunless period in the area since Met Office records began in 1957.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

No one is winking or making fun, despite the fact that this father and son are extolling the beauty of the morning while inside a sunless bunker six miles underground.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

At roughly 3,300 feet below the surface — about 2,000 feet above the sunken ship’s location — even the faintest light has faded, leaving a sunless realm known as the aphotic zone.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

But ceremony organizers in Olympia hold several rehearsals in the days leading up to the official lighting, which provide a backup flame should the big day prove sunless.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

The visual image congealed; he saw at once a famous landscape, the old, brown, barren ascent, with tufts of dried-out bonelike weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick