see daylight
Example Sentences
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Barely two months later, the Nittany Lions have plummeted into a hole so deep they can barely see daylight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Though they were getting airplay, the band’s album, which they recorded in 1981, didn’t see daylight because the ill-fated Rock-A-Mod Records, which they recorded the album for, folded before it could be released.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025
Though between Mama Bird’s unhurried schedule, Johnson’s “unpushy” nature and the pandemic, it’d take five years for the recordings to see daylight.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023
That makes it highly unlikely that "Die Hard," if it were pitched fresh in 2023, would see daylight, let alone a summer.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023
I can’t see daylight because the soles of shoes cover every inch of glass above us.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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