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Example sentences for "twilight"

Lexicographically close words:
twig; twigged; twiggy; twigs; twil; twilights; twilit; twill; twilled; twin
  1. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis.

  2. Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

  3. Some one had been seen to enter the office in the twilight who could not be identified with Brown; whom, indeed, even Philip, with his boyish interest in the novelty of the proceedings, vaguely perceived to be another man.

  4. They had left the garden behind in its blaze of flowers, and strayed off into the subdued twilight of the copse, where everything was in a half tone of greenness and shadow and waning light.

  5. Slowly the twilight crept down as the sun sank behind the high towers of Holdernesse Hall.

  6. It was already twilight when we reached the scene of our problem.

  7. Not a light shone, not a sound or a sign of life came from these little houses, whose shells close daily at twilight over the life within, weary with the day's work.

  8. Once, when the two cubs that hunted together were hard pinched with hunger, they found Old Tomah in the twilight and followed him stealthily.

  9. At twilight he would steal back and hunt quietly, just long enough to get his game, and then trot away again, leaving the cover as unharried as if there were not a wolf in the whole neighborhood.

  10. But when late twilight comes, there comes also the punctual wildness.

  11. In the dismal twilight our fingers were now busied with black-and-silver "in memoriam" badges, to be worn as a last tribute to some dead member of a coterie who would follow him to the grave under the emblem that had united them.

  12. In the blending of twilight and gaslight the room became mysterious, a shadowy corridor.

  13. It was late, the sun had set and only the twilight remained for my search before night would be upon me and I would be driven to some charity refuge.

  14. She had seen it rise and fall, disappear and loom up again; until at last in the twilight she had challenged it with a fire and the answer had led her to--him.

  15. The solemn twilight turned to night, a star glowed in the east; and then, on the high point above the mouth of the canyon, there leapt up a brighter glow.

  16. The short period of twilight was giving place to intense darkness, for there was no moon and the stars were obscured by opaque clouds.

  17. By dint of hard work, these preparations were completed before the short twilight gave place to intense darkness.

  18. And I thought of the airs of bargemen, Who tunefully recline, As they float by Ehrenbreitstein, In the twilight of the Rhine.

  19. After a long life of public exhibition, and the glare of excitement which inevitably attends upon it, to withdraw into the sober twilight of private life is a great trial, and I fear he finds it so.

  20. An exquisite dim twilight brooded over the wide water and the pine-walled shore.

  21. In the motionless twilight each cone gave a perpendicular thread of smoke to the thin cloud that hung low over the flat.

  22. She vanished like a beautiful dream in the twilight of the moon's illumination that in the shrubs on the shore mingled with the shadowed mirror of the waters.

  23. As the evening's twilight had crept in, Blanden with Doctor Kuhl sat upon the balcony of the castle, looking over the lake.

  24. It was like a secret understanding between us not to disturb our mutual incognito, and thus even to envelop the circumstances of our lives in the same charm of twilight as that which hovered over the enchanted island.

  25. He did not die in the night, He did not die in the day, But in the morning twilight His spirit pass'd away, When neither sun nor moon was bright, And the trees were merely grey.

  26. But mixed with twilight in the chamber burned The flickering candles, and those dreary folk, Unlike to sleepers, from their trance awoke, But nought of what had happed meanwhile they knew.

  27. He did not strike one blow, For the recreants came behind, In a place where the hornbeams grow, A path right hard to find, For the hornbeam boughs swing so, That the twilight makes it blind.

  28. But the ring of light on the ceiling above Marise's concealed lamp, resembling a faint, round moon in a twilight sky, hypnotised him.

  29. I warned you fairly that I'd not stand out of Severance's way," Garth reminded her, his face so grey and grim in the twilight that the girl remembered how she had thought it looked carved from rock.

  30. And the breeze, that on the Coast Wakened softly at the morn, Is on snowy prairies lost When the twilight pales forlorn; Sweet Chinook!

  31. The panorama which unfolded itself before our eyes, as we sped along through the quiet twilight that was deepening into starry night, was wonderfully beautiful, entrancing and expressive.

  32. Time is a shadow that will vanish with the twilight of humanity; but Silence is a part of the eternal.

  33. By the time he had joined his companion on the summit, the day had almost dawned; for the morning twilight is of short duration on the head waters of the Southern Platte.

  34. The sun had already sunk low over the ridge of the Rocky Mountains, and it was twilight within the little valley.

  35. The horses were as tired as the men, and before the chase was over the twilight was gray in the sage and it became necessary to halt at once and make camp where they were.

  36. X When night comes down with the long twilight there sounds a strange, almost awesome quawk in the dusk over the fields.

  37. The cooler twilight was falling, but, mingling with it, rose and thickened and spread the choking dust from their feet that soon covered them and shut out all but the dark wall of the herd from sight.

  38. The twilight fell, overlaying this severe desert picture with a blue light, which deepened over the forest.

  39. Possibly he was chasing the last gleams of those brighter days which had disappeared without return, or possibly, as he looked, the days of fear and pain emerged from the twilight of the distant past.

  40. To complete the misfortune, twilight set in with the gale.

  41. The man's eyes opened slowly, and glittered wickedly out from the twilight of their caverns; he frowned a black frown; he lifted his lean hand and waved us peremptorily away.

  42. But as I have said, a day came when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face; another day came when I ceased altogether to note them.

  43. The Great Basses are what is left of this city; the golden twilight seen there of an evening is the reflection of the brazen roofs of the submerged city.

  44. The twilight seen on hill tops is the sunshine in which the female Rakshis dry their paddy.

  45. The Month of Marriage wooed them in every sunny morning, in every twilight fading under the torch of the lovers' star.

  46. The twilight deepened in the wood, and Roger, stretching and shaking himself, called the lovers to themselves.

  47. Deane's house in Kennett Square, he now beheld a dim twilight chaos, wherein more and more of the distance was blotted out.

  48. A few dull orange streaks in the overcast sky, behind them, denoted sunset, and a raw, gloomy twilight crept up from the east.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twilight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aurora; dawn; day; daylight; daytime; dimness; dusk; dusky; evening; evensong; eventide; gloaming; glow; murk; night; shine; sunbeam; sunlight; sunset; sunshine; twilight; vesper