Sample Sentences forwinter solstice (auto-selected)
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Some ancient people lit huge fires and held feasts on the winter solstice to celebrate the moment when the days would finally start getting longer again.winter solstice = day of the year with the shortest daylight (in one hemisphere)
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The winter solstice marks the turning point toward spring.
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For reasons we don't yet understand, it must happen by the winter solstice, only four days from now.† (source)
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As such, it was with a touch of disappointment that the Count entered the Piazza on this winter solstice to find the room ungarlanded, the balustrades unstrung, an accordion player on the bandstand, and two-thirds of the tables empty.† (source)
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I think I may become a New Age person next year and celebrate the winter solstice by leaving my family and going to Stonehenge to dance with Druids.† (source)
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Rowan has until the winter solstice to swear fealty and fulfill my lord's demands.† (source)
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After the winter solstice its windows filled to overflowing with blue sky as wide as a river in flood.† (source)
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It is not my habit to hand out secrets like candied nuts on winter solstice.† (source)
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December twenty-fifth, my friends, is the ancient pagan holiday of sol invictus-Unconquered Sun-coinciding with the winter solstice.† (source)
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The days darken, the trees turn glum, the sun rolls downhill towards the winter solstice, but still it isn't winter.† (source)
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The tree is the World Axis in its wish-fulfilling, fruitful aspect—the same as that displayed in Christian homes at the season of the winter solstice, which is the moment of the rebirth or return of the sun, a joyous custom inherited from the Germanic paganism that has given to the modern German language its feminine Sonne.† (source)
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It was a fine and quiet afternoon, about three o'clock; but the winter solstice having stealthily come on, the lowness of the sun caused the hour to seem later than it actually was, there being little here to remind an inhabitant that he must unlearn his summer experience of the sky as a dial.† (source)
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My nerves haven't been right since the winter solstice.† (source)
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Ms. Richter cut these short, thanking all for their attendance and reminding them that the winter solstice was still six weeks away.† (source)
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As I recall, I voted to let you live at the winter solstice.† (source)
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And I shall bring it back to Olympus by winter solstice.† (source)
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