What's the difference between starlit and sunlit?

Starlit


Definition:

  • (a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
  • (2) The following operating lights can be recommended if the patient is to suffer as little glare as possible: Den-Tel-Ez Daray, and Belmont Type 040, Faro Sunlight S 70, Ritter Super Starlite; as well as: Chirana Fax, Siemens Sirolux.
  • (3) The following can be recommended for good illumination of the oral cavity: Belmont Type 040, Chirana Fax, Emda Top Spot, Faro Sunlight S 70, Pelton and Crane Light Fantastic Plus, Ritter Super Starlite, Siemens Sirolux.

Sunlit


Definition:

  • (a.) Lighted by the sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
  • (2) For the writers of the software, the upgrade path takes us all towards the sunlit uplands.
  • (3) Unlike the brightly coloured coral reefs found in shallow, sunlit tropical waters, deepwater coral reefs are found in cold water at depths sunlight doesn't penetrate.
  • (4) Where most of the UK sees a decline in manufacturing, lay-offs in the steel industry and widespread insecurity about the global economy, George Osborne sees only sunlit uplands, smiling faces and Hovis adverts.
  • (5) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
  • (6) It is certainly just as well that the Lib Dems enjoy the sunlit uplands while they can: dark clouds, in the ominous shape of European and local elections, are rolling up over the horizon.
  • (7) Director general Thompson is often in the US, and stayed at the Fairmont in Washington – "a sunlit urban oasis... adjacent to historic Georgetown" – in February 2005, at a cost of £162.84.
  • (8) And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.” Reverend Pinckney and his congregation understood that spirit.
  • (9) It comes as a joyful, sunlit contrast to the shut-in world of the bedroom that preceded it, pale faces illuminated by screens.
  • (10) A few weeks ago, Johnson assured us that “sunlit meadows” lay beyond a leave vote.
  • (11) Those closer to the action reported the unfazed goalkeeper in his canary yellow jersey to be whistling unconcernedly as he made his way from that sunlit field.
  • (12) As the Declaration of Principles was signed at a sunlit South Lawn ceremony, Mr Arafat, dressed in chequered keffiyeh and a military uniform, offered his hand to Mr Rabin - the symbolic gesture of reconciliation for which a watching world was waiting.
  • (13) With no obvious signs of impending doom, the record and hi-fi industries turned their eyes to the sunlit uplands of a new format.
  • (14) For those minded to hate supermarkets and all their evil works, these have been sunlit days.
  • (15) The two helicopters broke a quiet, sunlit autumnal morning to land at the logging community’s small airport.
  • (16) The above indicates that elasmobranch lens epithelial cells contain UV-labile actin filaments, and that near-UV radiation, as is present in the sunlit environment, can break down the actin structure in these cells.
  • (17) Over cold tea in a sunlit cafe in Greece's second city, Paraskeva says she has written "literally hundreds of letters".
  • (18) The woman sipping tea in a sunlit garden deep in Afrikaner country does and does not resemble the Zola Budd Britain remembers.
  • (19) A "secular celebrant", Debbie Malynn, conducted a brief, sunlit ceremony for family and friends of the robber and his wife.
  • (20) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.

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