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How to use starry in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective

Starry means having stars visible. Example: “Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.”

Examples of starry by meaning

adjectiveHaving stars visible.

  • Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.

adjectiveResembling or shaped like a star.

  • An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.1904, Flora and Sylva, volume 2, page 90

adjectiveFull of stars or celebrities.

  • Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.

More sentences with starry

  • Give me your starry rock, your aniseed spogs, your pink sugar mice.2025 February 18, Lili Wilkinson, Deep Is the Fen, Random House, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry spog
  • The Queen of the Night is backlighted by a skyful of starry dots.2007 April 11, Bernard Holland, “The Flute Is Awfully Nice, Tamino, but Check Out That Astral Sketchbook”, in New York Times. From the entry skyful
  • The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.1933, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 32, in Pat of Silver Bush, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. From the entry afoam
  • All cuddle buddied up on a cold and starry night.2020 April 1, LeAnzar Stockley, “Introduction – #RelationshipGoals”, in Relationship Ready: Moving from #RelationshipGoals to a Wise…. From the entry cuddle buddy
  • How does it feel to have such a starry name?2005, Ali Smith, The Accidental, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry Astrid
  • What about the starriest view through a telescope?2000, Fred Schaaf, Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence: Part C, Academic Presser, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry ultraconcentration
  • The story of The Merry Widow became uniquer and uniquer, the further it progressed in its starry orbit.1970, Bernard Grun, Gold and silver: the life and times of Franz Lehár, page 127. From the entry uniquer
  • Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.1916, Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, New York: Macmillan, verse 273, p. 77. From the entry afterglow
  • Starry Knight made a shepherd’s pie.2011, Karen Poth, Princess Petunia’s Sweet Apple Pie (VeggieTales), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry black forest
  • Starry food is fun to make.2001, Jennie Walters, Caz’s Birthday Blues (Party Girls), London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry open
  • Rounding out the memeably starry cast are Janelle Monae, Kate Hudson, Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daniel Craig, reprising his role as detective Benoit Blanc.2022 December 25, Christi Carras, “[Madelyn] Cline a certified Netflix star with series, film […]”, in Daily News, Jersey City, N.J.…. From the entry memeably

Meaning of starry

  1. adjective Having stars visible.
  2. adjective Resembling or shaped like a star.
  3. adjective Full of stars or celebrities.

Full definition of starry

Questions about starry in a sentence

How do you use starry in a sentence?
Starry is used as an adjective. For example: “Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.”
What is a short sentence with starry?
“Starry Knight made a shepherd’s pie.”
What does starry mean?
Starry means having stars visible.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: starry (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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