Sample Sentences forsummer solstice (auto-selected)
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Our science teacher challenged us to notice how long the shadows were at noon on the summer solstice and compare them to the rest of the year.summer solstice = day of the year with the longest daylight (in one hemisphere)
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The summer solstice marks the turning point toward shorter days and the long slide into fall.
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You should sail by summer solstice, when the gods' power is strongest.† (source)
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But at the onset of the summer solstice of 1954, the one-eyed cat of the Metropol turned his blind eye upon the Count's ill-gotten gains, and without the slightest expression of disappointment, disappeared down the stairs.† (source)
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"Isn't that— yes, that's the summer solstice," Iona remembered.† (source)
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He would attach the adamantite handle the next night and all would be ready for the enchantment under the full moon on the night of the summer solstice.† (source)
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Faolin created this especially for me one summer solstice, long ago.† (source)
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The vernal equinox now lay three months in the past, the summer solstice had arrived.† (source)
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At that time, the summer solstice of these southernmost districts, the sun had started back down, and tomorrow it would cast its last rays.† (source)
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In the early epochs of our race, men dwelt in temporary huts, of bowers of branches, as easily constructed as a bird's-nest, and which they built,—if it should be called building, when such sweet homes of a summer solstice rather grew than were made with hands,—which Nature, we will say, assisted them to rear where fruit abounded, where fish and game were plentiful, or, most especially, where the sense of beauty was to be gratified by a lovelier shade than elsewhere, and a more exquisite arrangement of lake, wood, and hill.† (source)
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When she saw my eyes open, she asked, "What will happen at the summer solstice?"† (source)
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The captain had long since returned to his post and the guards, having swapped their belligerence for boredom, now leaned against the wall and let the ashes from their cigarettes fall on the parquet floor while into the grand salon poured the undiminished light of the Moscow summer solstice.† (source)
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The night of the summer solstice, when magic tingled in the air, exciting all but the rational beings who had rejected such base instinctual urges, had begun.† (source)
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You asked me something about the summer solstice.† (source)
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And if it isn't returned by summer solstice, there's going to be trouble.† (source)
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Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.† (source)
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