English example sentences with "solstice"

We'll have to celebrate the winter solstice.

The pagan nations of antiquity always had a tendency to worship the sun, under different names, as the giver of light and life. And their festivals in its honor took place near the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the sun in December begins its upward course, thrilling men with the first distant promise of spring.

After the summer solstice, the days gradually begin to get shorter.

Winter solstice is coming.

Happy Solstice!

People in the Northern Hemisphere are in for a once-in-a-millennium treat on December 21 — the winter solstice and the longest night of the year — when Jupiter and Saturn will meet in a “great conjunction,” the closest they will be seen in the sky together for nearly 800 years.

How was your Solstice?

Winter Solstice is 21st December.

Winter Solstice is 21 December.

Today is the winter solstice.

Today is the summer solstice.

Happy Summer Solstice!

The winter solstice is approaching.

The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.

The winter solstice is usually either December 21st or 22nd. However, it sometimes is either December 20th or 23rd.

The winter solstice comes just before Christmas.

What's a solstice?

The summer solstice takes place every year around June 21 of the Gregorian calendar.

Tomorrow's the winter solstice.

Tomorrow's the summer solstice.

As crowds converged on Stonehenge last week for the summer solstice, a new study based on 10 years of archaeological investigations revealed the ancient monument was built to unify all of the people of Britain.

It's a terrible winter-like start to summer this longest-daylight Summer Solstice Day of the 20th of June of 2025. Ugh! It was raining like cats and dogs this morning, with much cloudiness in the afternoon. I still know "reinos" in pinkish Volapük (it's raining). I had to wear my blue boots and bring my black umbrella. I've been to Tim Hortons café several times: Sausage Farmer's Wrap, Earl Grey Tea with oat milk, Lemon Poppyseed Muffin, etc. It was likely my 49th visit this year to the "Clam Temple"—the St. Albans Road's Roman Catholic church. I'm an Esperantist-Lojbanist. I'm a Syncretist, spiritually. Several people at church were wearing beige, which, I think, symbolizes Chabacano, Philippine Creole Spanish. I just enjoy sitting quietly in the nave and the adoration chapel, both mostly empty. Ah, the void... I tried to reach for a big heart-shaped leaf from the Empress Tree, "Kiri" in Japanese, but it was too high up.

On the winter solstice we have a hot bath with yuzu citrus fruits in it.