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starry

[stahr-ee] / ˈstɑr i /


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D’Angelo’s children introduced the medley, which was set against a backdrop of floor to ceiling windows looking out on a starry sky.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O'Farrell's Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the acclaimed novelist might have become a bit starry after the whirlwind few months she's just had.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Taylor Swift’s sky may be opalite, but the starry blue hues in the new jewels of Louis Vuitton’s Color Blossom collection belong to sodalite.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2026

Lady Gaga, Bieber, Carpenter and Bruno Mars are set to lead a starry list of performers that also includes Lauryn Hill and a tribute to late rocker Ozzy Osbourne featuring Post Malone.

From Barron's Feb. 1, 2026

But now rising and sailing up from the South the great clouds advanced, sending out dark outriders into the starry fields.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The unwritten rules: the bigger, the louder, the splashier, the starrier, the better.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton will collect honorary Oscar statuettes at a private, untelevised dinner Tuesday night in Los Angeles that has often been even starrier than the Oscars themselves.

From Seattle Times Jan. 9, 2024

How did Cienfuegos accomplish what some starrier productions have failed to do?

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2023

The festival had been starrier then, he thought; he’d interviewed Jon Hamm and Annette Bening, and run into Blythe Danner on the street.

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2023

Our wisdom dies Beneath your deeper, starrier skies!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Stripped of their starriest player and many trusted associates, they’ve morphed into a tighter outfit that plays unselfish team basketball and relies on every player to shoot, rebound and defend.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.

From Barron's Feb. 14, 2026

It was one of the starriest categories of the night, with Gatiss holding off competition from David Tennant, Andrew Scott, James Norton and Joseph Fiennes.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2024

The starriest of the World Cup star teams, Brazil, finally had debuted at this 22nd men’s World Cup, the 22nd for which Brazil has qualified.

From Washington Post Nov. 24, 2022

Yesterday the wild weather, fine to see from the shelter of our billet, brought me apprehensions for to-night's departure, but when I woke the sky was the purest and starriest that one could dream of!

From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by Chevrillon, André




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