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Meanings of dusky in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "twilight"
Examples for "twilight"
1
It was early in the twilight; for now the sun set late.
2
It was half-dark; the morning saal lay in a hot sultry twilight.
3
It was already twilight when we reached the scene of our problem.
4
The twilight was falling rapidly; the shadows were blotting out the landscape.
5
The valleys beyond the wood and the twilight on them in summer.
1
The twilit garden was now brighter than the interior of the house.
2
Transcendent, above the shadowed, twilit earth was the rosy snow of ecstasy.
3
There was something about the remark that nagged at the twilit brain.
4
The town was quiet and couples were wandering the twilit, cobbled streets.
5
She offered it to him in the twilit room like an enraptured handmaid.
Usage of dusky in anglès
1
The air was dusky; the cold, in spite of the fire, intolerable.
2
Wider the door swung and several dusky faces appeared in the opening.
3
He scowled threateningly as he eyed the dusky figure in the doorway.
4
But in the gloom his dusky hue was only the more accentuated.
5
Look at that great honey-colored moon that hangs in the dusky air.
6
Good ones, if you didn't mind being called full of dusky good-nature.
7
Through the window he saw the dusky forms gathering about the door.
8
Look at that great, honey-coloured moon that hangs in the dusky air.
9
They must have fought in the shade of their own dusky deeds.
10
These dusky spots are easily recognised in good photographs of the moon.
11
On all sides the college buildings gloomed in dusky whiteness of architecture.
12
The room was so dusky that Walpurga looked around in superstitious fear.
13
The hot blood under dusky skin held its own in her cheeks.
14
A great engine shrouded with greasy canvas lay in the dusky room.
15
She opened the church, and we went inside the dusky ancient place.
16
It was evening; dusky shadows merged all objects into a common drab.
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Dusky through the time
Dusky across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common