sunrise
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Some worked 30-hour shifts in triple-digit heat and a flash heavy thunderstorm Friday evening as the celebration continued into the early hours of Saturday morning, keeping personnel on site through sunrise.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The tubes’ openings frame the sunrise and sunset on solstice days, while the perforations admit light onto their interior walls in the pattern of certain constellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"I got my pencil and ruler, and I joined them up, and I was aware that they were kind of pointing in the general direction of the sunrise on midsummer," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In Los Angeles, for example, the earliest sunrise occurs before the solstice, while the latest sunset takes place afterward.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
He realized that he had seen this place before, many times, while tending the bukshah at sunrise.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
He once dredged up 17 rings in a single day by sweeping the ocean bottom in a spot where tourists, well into their tequila sunrises, routinely launch themselves off catamarans, their fingers slick with sunscreen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
As it moves across the UK, it is expected to transform ordinary sunrises and sunsets into striking displays of deep gold, amber, and burnt orange.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
We traveled together, race to race, town to town, living out of suitcases and sunrises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Watching footage of Earth orbits from the ISS helped inspire the book, Harvey told NPR, including the 16 sunsets and sunrises the astronauts in her book experience over the day she writes about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
The seas were calm and the sunrises beautiful.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
