Starry

//ˈstɑɹ.i//

"Starry" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Make a wish on a starry night.

Most people enjoy starry, peaceful nights.

María looked at the starry sky, with a quarter moon that illuminated that autumn night.

The most famous painting in the exposition depicted a starry sky with bats flying over it. It was a little sinister.

The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.

Below the starry sky, Tom and Mary forgot about time, recounting their dreams to each other.

This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together. She was fair and beautiful, but made of ice- shining and glittering ice. Still she was alive and her eyes sparkled like bright stars, but there was neither peace nor rest in their glance.

Every night, we all gaze up at the magnificent starry sky above us thinking about the vastness and the expanse of space... it really is quite a bit to take in.

The Brazilian flag has a green background (alluding to the rainforest) with a yellow diamond (representative of gold and the country's wealth in mineral resources) in whose center a starry blue disc symbolizes the sky of the region, with the number of stars corresponding to the states of the federation. In the central belt is inscribed a motto of the country.

"Oh, hasn't it been a brilliant evening?" sighed Anne, when it was all over and she and Diana were walking home together under a dark, starry sky.

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Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.

I shrank from the starry waters as they rose to my lip, but a power stronger than my will compelled me to their taste.

An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.

Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.

A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.

After a bit of digging, we discovered she follows a stringent workout and nutrition regime, masterminded by Patrick Murphy — a celeb PT with a super-starry roster, including Zac Efron, Keanu Reeves and Ruby Rose — with a focus on overall health rather than aesthetics.

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