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  • adjective Shot through with sunlight.

Etymologies

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From sun +‎ shot.

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Examples

  • Just as President Kennedy pledged in 1961 that the United States would land an astronaut on the moon by the end of that decade - a moonshot - Dr. Chu said the United States should attempt a "sunshot" by aiming to cut the cost of solar power by about three quarters by the end of this decade, to $1 a watt for utility-scale projects.

    NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2011

  • He blinked into the sunshot dimness around him, slowly coming to recognize his surroundings.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • He blinked into the sunshot dimness around him, slowly coming to recognize his surroundings.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Our young friend's perusal of her ladyship's telegram was literally prolonged by a momentary daze: what swam between her and the words, making her see them as through rippled shallow sunshot water, was the great, the perpetual flood of "How much _I_ know -- how much _I_ know!"

    In the Cage Henry James 1879

  • One of the victims suffered a sunshot wound in the neck while the other suffered a gun shot wound in the chest and leg.

    680news.com 2009

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