Sample sentences for SUMMER SOLSTICE

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the instant in each year when the Sun, as seen from Earth, is farthest from the equator such that the time of daylight lasts longer than any other day; or more broadly, the day that holds that instant

You should sail by summer solstice, when the gods' power is strongest.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

At that time, the summer solstice of these southernmost districts, the sun had started back down, and tomorrow it would cast its last rays.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
"Isn't that— yes, that's the summer solstice," Iona remembered.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Faolin created this especially for me one summer solstice, long ago.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
The vernal equinox now lay three months in the past, the summer solstice had arrived.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
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.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
The summer solstice deadline— " "Will have to be resolved without him, Grover.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
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...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Somehow, I knew what time it was: early morning, June 21, the day of the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
I didn't know how we were ever going to find the entrance to the Underworld by tomorrow, the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
We had only one day left until the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
At this rate, we'd never make it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
And get it back to Olympus before the summer solstice, in ten days.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
Grover mentioned the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
You asked me something about the summer solstice.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
And if it isn't returned by summer solstice, there's going to be trouble.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
When she saw my eyes open, she asked, "What will happen at the summer solstice?"
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
What's the summer solstice dead-line?
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
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.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

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