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How to use sunset in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Sunset means the moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon. Example: “The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.”

Examples of sunset by meaning

nounThe final period of the life of a person or thing.

  • one's sunset years

nounA set termination date.

  • The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

verbTo phase out.

  • We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
  • Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist
  • Here’s what you need to know about Amazon’s decision to sunset its older e-readers and tablets, and what that means for you.2026 April 9, “Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore. Here’s What to Do.”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

More sentences with sunset

  • Marc went to the park with his girlfriend and watched the sunset with her.From the entry girlfriend
  • We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.From the entry picturesque
  • We have the great watchmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.From the entry watchmaker
  • If we're gonna make it by sunset, we'd better hit the road.From the entry hit the road
  • The backlight from the sunset cast the pier and the crowd in silhouette.From the entry backlight
  • Mom can act a bit squirrelly sometimes, and I swear it's usually worse after sunset.From the entry squirrelly
  • We have the great clockmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.From the entry clockmaker
  • Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.From the entry plough
  • They decided to amble along the beach at sunset.From the entry amble
  • The ageless pyramids stood prominently against the sunset.From the entry ageless
  • An armada of insects attacked us every day at sunset.From the entry armada
  • It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset.From the entry get going
  • We went for a walk along the beach, watched the sunset, and then capped it all off with a lovely meal.From the entry cap it all off
  • Locals think southwestern sunsets are the most beautiful.From the entry southwestern
  • The acrophase of the metabolic process ran from shortly mid-morning until sunset, with the peak amplitude recorded in mid-afternoon.From the entry acrophase
  • The sunsets in Hawaii are gorgeous.From the entry gorgeous
  • A sunset clause in this act says the tax exemption will expire on the thirtieth day after the effective date of the act.From the entry sunset clause
  • A griddler begs between the sunset and evening prayers and might sing if his voice is good.2021, Al-Jahiz, Avarice & The Avaricious. From the entry griddler
  • It may be mature but it's not a sunset industry, and arguably not one sector.2007, Philip Jenks, Stephen Eckett, The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry sunset industry
  • The curtains were wide open, and the rich orangey sunset drowned everything in evening colour.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 95. From the entry orangey
  • So, there he goes, riding off into the golden sunset of history.2005 July 24, Paul Oerjuerge, “Armstrong untouchable to the end”, in The Sun, San Bernardino, USA, retrieved 18 Oct 2010. From the entry champeen
  • The watch also offers sunrise and sunset times, and equation of time.2005, Caroline Childers, Grand Complications: High Quality Watchmaking, page 317. From the entry moonphase
  • The blade had been inches from showing Moe a Harlem sunset.2004 February 1, Desdemona, “{ASSM} Rough Cut: Chap 1 by Desdmona (crime drama)”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet). From the entry Harlem sunset
  • I walk around the house, billowy clouds reflecting a rose-gold sunset.1998, Douglas Hobbie, This Time Last Year, page 125. From the entry rose gold
  • It would seem therefore that the rubber tree need no longer be considered as a "sunset crop"1995, The Planter - Volume 71, Issues 826-837, page 297. From the entry sunset crop
  • The image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs.1977, Susan Sontag, “The Heroism of Vision”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 77. From the entry surfeit
  • This wasn't some punk carving Harlem sunsets on a drugstore attendant.1976, Frank Ormsby, “War Memorial”, in Seamus Heaney, editor, Soundings, volume 3, page 15. From the entry Harlem sunset
  • Sunset Crescent Drive curved leisurely north from Sunset Boulevard, well beyond the Bel-Air Country Club golf-course.1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 37. From the entry leisurely
  • A time switch with astronomical adjustment switches the warning signs on at sunset.1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Traffic Lights at Crossings on Manx Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 361. From the entry time switch
  • Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no.…. From the entry auroral
  • 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
  • Tulloch's ingenuous face seemed to have caught the rubicundity of the distant sunset.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry rubicundity
  • Not into the sunset but into the sunrising did he love to sail some goodly black-hulled ship.1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard. From the entry sunrising
  • Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like a superconflagration.1917, Perley Poore Sheehan, Those who walk in darkness, New York G.H. Doran Co, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry superconflagration
  • It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!. From the entry nasturtium

Meaning of sunset

  1. noun The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
  2. noun The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
  3. noun The final period of the life of a person or thing.

Full definition of sunset

Questions about sunset in a sentence

How do you use sunset in a sentence?
Sunset is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.”
What is a short sentence with sunset?
“one's sunset years”
What does sunset mean?
Sunset means the moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunset (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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