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skylight

[ UK /skˈa‍ɪla‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈskaɪˌɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a window in a roof to admit daylight

How To Use skylight In A Sentence

  • White snow gently fell onto the glass of the skylight, melting away.
  • The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Floored with glass, the terrace is also a skylight shedding luminance into the building and down the stairwell.
  • Through the overhead skylight they could see the night sky turn a deep black. THREE IN ONE
  • By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
  • There is a dramatic semi-cantilevering porch with a trellis and a skylight running along the ridge line of the roof. FLWBC 2008 Wrap-Up: Day Two
  • White skylight wells - set above exposed rafters - bounce and diffuse sunlight into the room below, reinforcing the open, airy feeling.
  • The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum. Grading the New Acropolis
  • Her reflection was eerie and the skylight threw a shocking bright light down on top of her.
  • Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
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