How to use dusk in a sentence

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• The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.From the entry relucent
• At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.From the entry befall
• As dusk fell a storm got up.From the entry get up
• Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!From the entry good morning
• We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.From the entry observer
• It came on to snow after dusk.From the entry come on to
• At dusk in Sea Park Apartments, you will hear John sweeping the street and carpark downstairs.2023, Elroi Yee, “The apartments with no entrance”, in TheFourth. From the entry lor
• Their small supple forms slipped busily along the floor at dusk, continually perfecting their burrows.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 442. From the entry muskrat
• A containership was passing in the far distance, a dark rectangle in the dusk.2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 247. From the entry containership
• Near dusk, he arrived at a small settlement that served as a holiday village for Adelaidians.2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 83. From the entry Adelaidian
• But such readings are performed at dawn or dusk, in half-light.2011, Richard Kearney, Kascha Semonovitch, Phenomenologies of the Stranger, page 3. From the entry demitone
• It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football.2011, Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be, page 133. From the entry kerby
• By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph. From the entry murmurate
• “Sundowner′s syndrome” refers to changes in mood and behavior that begin near dusk.2007 February 7, Dennis Fiely, “Dark Ages: For the elderly fighting mental or physical problems, life takes a frightening turn when…. From the entry sundowner
• The bell pealed 20 times, clanging into the dusk as Mr.2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry peal
• This is the battle that I had witnessed for myself, in the voggy dusk.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45. From the entry voggy
• A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings. From the entry wanderstar
• A small crowd was there, and even though it was dusk, they recognized the car and applauded.1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213. From the entry Vladivostok
• Then the old scourge of dusk swooped down upon the warderless hoard.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40. From the entry shrieking
• There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270. From the entry deepen
• Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?1927, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 1, in Emily’s Quest, New York: Bantam, published 1983, page 9. From the entry afterglow
• "Stand-to" at dusk for about an hour, work all night, "stand-to" for an hour before dawn.1915, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, (1929), Penguin Modern Classics 1960, p. 86. From the entry stand-to
• No one on the streets from dusk to dawn.2013, Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law (The Dagger and the Coin; book three), Orbit, →ISBN, page 317. From the entry portmaster
• From dusk to sun-up and from forest to suburban garden, this medium-sized owl emphatically calls for "more pork."2008, David Stirling, “Belly Up in the Kauri Trees”, in Birds, Beasts and a Bike under the Southern Cross, Victoria, B.C.: Agio Publishing…. From the entry morepork
• The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk.1994, Arthur Johnson, “Chinese Arithmetic”, in Tony Grima, editor, Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry scarf
• Moth lacewings, family Ithonidae, are dull-coloured and resemble moths; they have mass flights at dusk in summer and autumn.1971, John Child, John E. B. Currey, Australia's insects, page 32. From the entry moth lacewing
• We visited the first of these towards dusk one evening.1952, Wilfred G. Burchett, China's Feet Unbound, Melbourne, Australia: World Unity Publications, →OCLC, →OL, page 173. From the entry Peng-pu
• Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated.1914, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Dusk”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC, pages…. From the entry to one's mind
• The barn was dim and shadowy in the dusk of the October evening — "very Hallowe'eny," as Max said.1913, Mormon Church, The Children's Friend. From the entry Hallowe'eny
• It was dusk by the time Yandi reappeared, carrying a calabash of parboiled rice and a peanut and chili sauce on his head.2015, Michael [D.] Jackson, “Petra’s Letter”, in Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia…. From the entry calabash
• Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry soul-crushing
• I drove out there around dusk.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11. From the entry gristmill
• If a pallid countenance lost in a dusk brings sorrow upon us, we know that in its place a stream blushedly flows!2006, Miloš Crnjanski (translated), “Sumatra”, in Serbian Literary Magazine, number 1, Belgrade: Serbian Writers Association, →ISSN…. From the entry blushedly
• Was it the effect of the bulletproof glaze on the windows, or had dusk really turned the sky a sheer, sugary violet?2001, Mary O’Connell, “Saint Dymphna”, in Living with Saints, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry long john
• It was nearly dusk when Wallace, swacked on power and assorted chemicals, staggered out of the Hilton Inn parking lot to his rental car.1998, Gary Cartwright, Dirty Dealing, page 159. From the entry swacked
• On toward dusk some little gypsy boys whittled gigs from river-birch limbs and went to a backwater and gigged frogs until they had a basketful.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 122. From the entry gig
• The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.1954, William Golding, chapter 3, in Lord of the Flies, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry festoon
• At dusk I ate them greedily.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck. From the entry ship's biscuit

Meaning of dusk

1. adjective Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
2. noun The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
3. noun A darkish colour.

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Questions about dusk in a sentence

How do you use dusk in a sentence?

Dusk is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.”

What is a short sentence with dusk?

“At dusk I ate them greedily.”

What does dusk mean?

Dusk means tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.