sunrise
IPA: sˈʌnraɪz
noun
- The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
- The change in color of the sky at dawn.
- (figuratively) Any great awakening.
verb
- (business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
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Examples of "sunrise" in Sentences
- I hope you get to see the sunrise from the summit.
- It's what we call a sunrise industry rather than a sunset industry, said Beraskow.
- In a few minutes we were on board and talking with an engineer who was watching the sunrise from the deck.
- I am sure you have used the terms sunrise and sunset, yet most would not think that you held a heliocentric cosmology.
- The official announcement is on his Web site, with imagery vaguely reminiscent of President Obama's trademark red white and blue sunrise from the 2008 campaign.
- The terms sunrise and sunset took on new meaning after watching the horizon bleed magnificent hues of scarlet, orange and purple as the blazing star levitated and sunk behind the clustered Hong Islands.
- As soon as you turn your back on the uncertain sunrise and enter your office building, you cease to be Miguel Sáenz, the civil servant discernible behind the wrinkled gray suit, round, wire-rimmed glasses, and fearful gaze, and become Turing, decipherer of secrets, relentless pursuer of encoded messages, the pride of the Black Chamber.
- Now you know, Aunty, that 's just the way people are always doing with me, and the way poor dear old Polly would spoil me; but I told Esther all about my new resolutions and exactly how good I intended to be, and that I thought I could n't do better than to do everything that she did, and so when she gets up I get up; and really, Aunty, you 've no idea what a sight the sunrise is here in the mountains; it really is worth getting up for.
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