Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "crepuscular"

Lexicographically close words:
crepes; crepitant; crepitation; crepitus; crept; cres; crescendo; crescent; crescentic; crescents
  1. When my eyes unclosed the chamber of the moonstone walls was filled with a silvery, crepuscular light.

  2. Fainter, more crepuscular became the light, yet never losing its crystalline quality.

  3. And Ezra Pound, who began his career as an exemplar of virility,[Footnote: See The Revolt against the Crepuscular Spirit in Modern Poetry.

  4. The Christmas holidays were bright and frosty, with a red morning glow from the east, the daylight waxy in the sun, and with long blue, crepuscular evenings.

  5. His eyes shone with quiet, greenish lights; from outside, the thin crepuscular light crept into the room through little crevices.

  6. But the rays died away immediately, leaving a blue crepuscular gloom, in which Kseniya Ippolytovna's figure grew dim, forlorn, and decrepit.

  7. From its behaviour on the ground, also in flying, when it appears dazed with the light, I have no doubt that it is altogether nocturnal or crepuscular in its habits.

  8. It is strictly crepuscular or nocturnal, never voluntarily taking wing by daylight.

  9. Many species of Hesperidæ are also stated to be of crepuscular habits by this same observer.

  10. But the tree which has the greatest charm to northern eyes is the cold grey-green ilex, whose clear crepuscular shade drops against a Roman sun a veil impenetrable, yet not oppressive.

  11. These crepuscular chambers at Vincigliata are a mystery and a challenge; they seem the mere propounding of an answerless riddle.

  12. Crepuscular and nocturnal Lepidoptera, comprising most of the Heterocera, the Sphingidae, Bombycids, Noctuids, etc.

  13. These Petrels are chiefly crepuscular or nocturnal in their habits, and during the daytime not a bird will be seen.

  14. With the chapadao we said good-by to the curious, gregarious, and crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which we found so abundant along the line of the telegraph wire.

  15. In this neighborhood there were multitudes of the big, gregarious, crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which I have before mentioned.

  16. One understands pessimism in sorely-tried France; one comprehends it also in the insupportable narrowness of social life in the crepuscular North, with its cloudy gray skies and its scourge of alcoholism.

  17. This one word awakens all the crepuscular moods which the body of romantic poets and authors have bequeathed as a residuum in the soul of the contemporary reader.

  18. For the rabbit is usually a crepuscular animal, feeding soon after sunset or on moonlight nights.

  19. The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain at dawn--or was it, perchance, at the coming of the night?

  20. Now "final darkness," as we usually understand it, refers to something having no resemblance whatever to the characteristics of the crepuscular zone.

  21. It was rather laughable to hear a cadet, who was expounding the theory of twilight, say, pointing to his figure on the blackboard: "If a spectator should cross this limit of the crepuscular zone he would enter into final darkness.

  22. A suspicion of crepuscular dampness was filtering through the breeze, or rather the tepid breeze of daytime was changing into the moist breeze which invades the city at nightfall.

  23. It had got to be late by this time, and the lonely castel looked crepuscular and mysterious.

  24. A pretty phenomenon observed chiefly in the late afternoon and early morning consists of beams of light radiating from the sun, known technically as crepuscular rays.

  25. The sun popularly said to be "drawing water" when crepuscular rays extend down from it toward the horizon.

  26. A sailor's name for crepuscular rays extending downward from the sun.

  27. The continuation of the crepuscular rays converging toward a point in the sky opposite to the sun.

  28. About their present habits, however, especially their crepuscular habits, there is yet much to learn.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crepuscular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dusk; dusky; evening; evensong; twilight; vesper