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Meanings of twilight in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dusky"
Examples for "dusky"
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.
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 twilight in English
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.
6
It was really natural; the sunset was gone, here was grey twilight.
7
But the softness is there; everything in this twilight temple is soft.
8
The owl hooted at night, and the whippoorwill called in the twilight.
9
They crept up the hill in the twilight, and entered the cottage.
10
Mid-winter gripped the dead world; and the twilight air was deathly chill.
11
Gradually the twilight fell; strange shadows leaped and died on the wall.
12
Often in the twilight she sat by him in this silent communion.
13
Grant Herman sat in his studio in the gathering twilight thinking gloomily.
14
About twilight they encamped in a slight depression in the mountain side.
15
In the deepening, misty twilight, there was something awful in the spot.
16
I estimate that we have about twenty minutes of real twilight left.
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Translations for twilight
Portuguese
Twilight through the time
Twilight across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common