Maana ya kamusi ya neno "skylight" ni mwanya kwenye paa au dari, ambayo kwa kawaida huwa na glasi au iliyotengenezwa kwa nyenzo zinazoangazia, ili kuruhusu mwanga kuingia ndani ya jengo kutoka juu. Inaweza pia kurejelea uwazi sawa katika sitaha ya meli.
1. At the kitchen end of the room the ceiling ends and a large skylight encloses what was once an open space in the roof.
2. A burst of sunshine streams through the skylight and brightens the living room.
3. It is in the form of a half orange, of enormous dimensions, and well lighted, though no light penetrates it save that which is admitted by a window, or rather round skylight, at the top and it was from this that the emperor examined the building.
4. That night, the sound of the water dripping from the bedroom skylight onto our plastic bed sheet kept me awake.
5. I listened to the rain on the bedroom skylight and wondered what had happened.
6. What I wanted was to soak away my aches in a hot tub, a White Russian or several beside me, and then sleep until noon and wake with the sun beating down on me full-force through the skylight.
7. At first I mistook the room for a greenhouse, but then I saw the stone walls, and the single skylight overhead that showed the pink of an early dawn sky.
8. He stood as she neared the booth, moving into the bright sunlight that streamed in through the skylight above, drawing the attention of everyone within viewing distance in the restaurant.
9. A pane of the skylight had, apparently, just been blown in.
10. Above us, moonlight shone through the blue glass of a skylight.