How to Use skylight in a Sentence

skylight

noun
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  • The kitchen skylight and french doors flood the room with light.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 7 June 2022
  • Above it, a skylight opened up to the grey Parisian skies.
    — Vogue, 8 July 2024
  • The friend fell through the skylight into the metal shop and was killed.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2022
  • The colors changed to match the sun coming through the chapel’s skylight.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Of course, a large skylight on the top floor doesn’t hurt, either.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Off the hall are stairs with a skylight that lead to the penthouse bedroom.
    — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In the rainy season, a skylight above the bed will keep you attuned to the shifting of the clouds.
    — Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
  • On the floor of the terrace is a glass cutout that serves as a skylight to the main event space below.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • There’s also a skylight that runs for a full 100 feet along the entire length of the home.
    — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Those skylights needed to be rigged to open in time with the audio.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The airy space has 15-foot ceilings and a skylight to keep the light flooding in by day.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Sun shines through the skylight above, transforming the piece as the hours slip by.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
  • The office up at the top has a low glass wall, and then there are skylights behind it.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The heavy rainfall had pooled atop the roof and was leaking through a skylight above the stairwell.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There’s an open floor plan, a skylight and a loft bedroom.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
  • There is plenty of sun thanks to two walls of windows and a skylight.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The builder ensured that the kitchen at the back of the house was light and bright by adding skylights as part of the renovation.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Area rugs, mirrors, and warm-toned wood make the most of the sun coming through these skylights.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the first-floor restaurant is covered with a glass skylight.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Her face was blanched by the screen, the walls by the light pollution that burned off in the night to settle, like ash, through the skylight.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • That capsule saw the light of day again coming through the skylight at the mall's food court on Thursday.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The main level has a 30-foot ceiling with a huge skylight.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Off the dining room, there’s a bedroom and a large bath with a jetted tub and a skylight.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • The living space gives a wide view of the outdoors with its oversized skylight and glass door.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Light streams through a Tiffany skylight above the entryway.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Within seconds, the lights went out, the skylight above was sucked up and out into the night and the sound of crashing trees filled the air.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The Deluxe Roof Room allows guests to fall asleep under a blanket of stars with an over-the-bed skylight.
    — Shelby Knick, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • There is one opening for the two Maxxair fans and another in the middle for a skylight.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Set against the raw arches and skylight of a gallery in the Marais, Kang intended her wares, including the brand’s footwear, to stand as sculptures.
    — Sandra Salibian, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024
  • It's finished in cedar tongue and groove siding, with metal accenting, and topped by a standing seam metal roof that has a skylight.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024

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