sun-shot
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.78 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of sun shot.
adj
Alternative form of sunshot.
Example Sentences
- "Using sun-shots from the Kew pier, its true azimuth was determined in June 1957."
- "At noon he was able to make his first sun-shot in all those weeks of sailing."
- "Even if I had an accurate time, which I have tried hard to get with no success, I could not take a sun-shot because of the fog."
- "The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned."
- "To divert me I had only the Times, an article I was editing, and my own reflection, pensive and sleepy, framed in the sun-shot window."
- "“You set right down now, baby,” he said, and he made a pretence of having something to do inside the mill, while June watched the creaking old wheel dropping the sun-shot sparkling water into the swift sluice, but hardly seeing it at all."