adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a starry sky (= with a lot of stars )
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We had dinner on the terrace under a beautiful starry sky.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
night
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People were stamping their feet and putting their hands in their armpits against the chill of an open, starry night .
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The chill filters down through the starry night and edges under my skin.
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The heat and burning sunlight of daytime are easily misjudged when leaving a hut in the middle of a starry night .
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She felt as if she could float up into the starry night .
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It was a beautiful starry night , far from freezing.
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Stirring the embers with a stick sent sparks flying, echoes of the vast starry night .
sky
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She paused outside the villa, and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky .
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I looked up at the starry sky .
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The atmosphere inside the plane immediately became tense, five pairs of eyes scanned the starry sky , they could see nothing.
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We head back to the truck and dinner underneath a starry sky and among the cliffs of Cerro Colorado.
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It was difficult to imagine her out there right now, at this instant, looking up at this same starry sky .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I looked up at the starry sky.
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It was difficult to imagine her out there right now, at this instant, looking up at this same starry sky.
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On the starry nighttime side of human consciousness, myth still lives and reigns.
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She felt as if she could float up into the starry night.
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She paused outside the villa, and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky.
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The atmosphere inside the plane immediately became tense, five pairs of eyes scanned the starry sky, they could see nothing.
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We head back to the truck and dinner underneath a starry sky and among the cliffs of Cerro Colorado.