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Example sentences for "starry"

Lexicographically close words:
starre; starred; starres; starrie; starring; stars; starshine; starship; starships; start
  1. Among the dead leaves which stubbornly cling as they yellow, and often persist until spring, the tiny buds, the size of a pin-head, open into starry blossoms with petals like gold threads.

  2. The starry magnolia blooms in March or April, covering itself with star-shaped white flowers made of strap-like petals that form a flat whorl instead of a cup.

  3. Shroudless and tombless they sunk to their rest, While o'er their ashes the starry fold flying Wraps the proud eagle they roused from his nest.

  4. If we could give her the greatest earthly happiness it would be poor and mean, and still she would sigh after that starry companionship from which her soul has been withdrawn.

  5. I learn from her of that starry world in which for a brief time she was permitted to dwell.

  6. And now she endures this exile with an aching heart, with memories that are irrepressible, with longings unutterable, and yearnings that cannot be expressed for that starry world and that bright companionship from which she has been recalled.

  7. O'er valleys and hillsides, with force all unspent, Till the sun set and starry night fell.

  8. Io is the moon, and Argus the starry sky, which, as it were, keeps sleepless watch over her.

  9. For the far footsteps of thy mortal lover; The purple midnight veiled that mystic meeting With her most starry canopy;" etc.

  10. This starry heaven was not the heaven they were accustomed to.

  11. In his opinion these two eyes harmonized admirably; they reminded him, he said, of bright dawn and starry night.

  12. Come to the Land of Youth: the trees grown heavy there Drop on the purple wave the starry fruit they bear.

  13. Image of beauty, when my way I go; No single joy or sorrow do I know: Elate for freedom leaps the starry power, The life which passes mourns its wasted hour.

  14. The tower of heaven turns darker blue; a starry sparkle now begins; The mystery and magnificence, the myriad beauty and the sins Come back to me.

  15. Can you be sure the next pair you meet walking together of a summer eve are as starry as they look?

  16. The rising sun made a golden path across the tranquil bay and lighted up the three forts and the starry battlecross softly stirring over each.

  17. At the death of each animal those germs of particular life return to their source, and to the principle of life that circulates in the starry sphere.

  18. Let any man, seated beside a girl like Cecilia at starry twilight, find the right epithet for that blush.

  19. The solitude pleased him, and he lingered long, gazing on the noble church lifting its spires and turrets into the deep blue starry air.

  20. The solemn starry night looked down steadfastly on the little garden.

  21. The nodding lilacs and starry syringas were mingling their perfume in the evening air.

  22. An intelligent glance at the starry vault indicates to the pilot, in every place and at every time, his distance from the meridian of Paris.

  23. By reason of the precession of the equinoxes, the pole does not always occupy the same place in the starry vault.

  24. The two most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

  25. Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt=--Like the starry heavens, still and in motion.

  26. Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

  27. Fall back, you people who prefer the paltry sum of ten cents to a view of the starry heavens, and give this noble young man plenty of room!

  28. Sleep, sleep, I wait for thy spell, For my eyes are heavy with watching well For the starry night, and the world of dreams That ever in sleep on my spirit beams.

  29. And I would recall the murmured prayer, And the dark eyes look of love, While unseen angels hovered there From the starry worlds above.

  30. Within its pure recesses, deep, A fount of tender feeling lies; Whose crystal waters, while they sleep, Reflect the light of starry skies.

  31. Immaculate, 'midst starry fires Incalculable thou--" here I stopped suddenly and bowed my head.

  32. He shivered as a light breeze blew softly through the verandah, and turned his gaze from the starry heavens, muttering bitterly: "The cankerworm has fretted through and through!

  33. Perhaps it was the peace of the starry night that spoke to him, for there came stealing upon him at this unexpected juncture one of those moments of self-revelation which visit even the basest and shallowest of human hearts.

  34. The redness of his face is like the splendour of the sky; and the spotted skin that he wears is an image of the starry firmament.

  35. Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these, Prepare the later afternoon of me myself--prepare my lengthening shadows, Prepare my starry nights.

  36. The ephod, by its many colors, signified the starry heaven; the two onyx stones denoted the two hemispheres, or the sun and moon.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aglow; astral; astronomic; astronomical; beaming; burning; gleaming; glowing; heavenly; illuminant; impractical; incandescent; interplanetary; interstellar; luminous; lunar; lustrous; meteoric; nebulous; planetary; radiant; shining; shiny; sidereal; solar; starlike; starry; stellar; streaming; sunny; sunshiny; terrestrial