How to use twilight in a sentence

Examples of twilight by meaning

More sentences with twilight

• But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again.From the entry twain
• Now that he's entering his twilight years, he's writing his memoirs.From the entry twilight years
• The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.From the entry dawn
• Together with the glow coming from stores, bars, and offices, the streetlamps created a constant twilight.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 306. From the entry nightlessness
• Though twilight balms the west, my fears see something brutal in that nightward star.2007, Wayne Clifford, The Exile's Papers, page 94. From the entry nightward
• But is there not a twilight zone over which both Church and State put forth claims?2006, Charles C Marshall, The Roman Catholic Church in the Modern State. From the entry twilight zone
• The workday began at first light and continued until evening twilight.2003, M. Hill Goodspeed, U.S. Navy: A Complete History. From the entry offcoming
• Civil twilight, which begins or ends when the Sun's centre is 6° below the horizon.1990, J. Whitaker & Sons (contributor), Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1990, page 65. From the entry civil twilight
• There was a faint rose acronical glow high in the room, the beginning of twilight.1987, Shelby Foote, Tournament, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry acronical
• Twilight deepened, and a flicker of star-shells wavered in the sky beyond Béthune.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 260. From the entry star shell
• She had learned to call the slews "pugholes," and to watch for ducks at twilight.1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air, Cosimo Classics, page 66. From the entry pughole
• A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call. From the entry skeeter
• Only the brightest stars are visible during civil twilight.2011, Thomas Hockey, How We See the Sky, A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night, page 74. From the entry civil twilight
• I wondered if we'd just entered the twilight zone.2009, Steve Sisgold, What's Your Body Telling You?: Listening To Your Body's Signals to Stop Anxiety, Erase Self-Doubt and Achieve True…. From the entry twilight zone
• It is twilight - cold, deepening twilight.2008, David Szalay, London and the South-East. From the entry gelid
• You enter the twilight world of ageing auntdom.2001, John Singleton, The Creative Writing Workbook, page 234. From the entry auntdom
• And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction.1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in…. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
• Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue.1971, Nicolas Freeling, The Lovely Ladies, Harper & Row, page 87. From the entry Madonna blue
• We talked of indifferent things, and watched the juggler who was tossing torches in the Stadium, for twilight was falling.1956, Mary Renault, “Chapter 28”, in The Last of the Wine, New York: Modern Library, page 374. From the entry indifferent
• Twilight began to dusken the quiet of the house.1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine, page 123. From the entry dusken
• The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War, Casemate Publishers…. From the entry blackouts
• Europe in the Twenties and especially the Thirties entered a twilight zone between the afterlife of one war and the looming anticipation of another.2005, Tony Judt, Postwar, New York: Penguin, Introduction, p. 4. From the entry afterlife
• The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry tump
• We were in the twilight world now, walking where no man had ever walked before, and we felt ourselves to be golden.1967, Worlds of If, volume 17, number 3, page 52. From the entry unache
• It was twilight in the streets.1947, Frank Waters, chapter 10, in The Yogi of Cockroach Court, Chicago: Sage Books, published 1972, page 225. From the entry acherontic
• It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon.1918, May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven. From the entry unrisen
• The sunlight streamed down on them through the smoke-hole overhead, but spread only a dim twilight through the remoter recesses of the vast subterranean chamber.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 234. From the entry smoke-hole
• Though the dusk of twilight was hardly yet apparent, lights were beginning to spangle the city like pop-corn bursting in a deep skillet.1906 December, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Compliments of the Season”, in Ainslee’s […], volume XVIII, number 5, New…. From the entry pop-corn
• Born in the digital twilight of MySpace, Facebook, and DeviantArt, Welwitschia Goth tapped into the emo and goths yearning for something both creepy and beautiful at the same time.2025 August 20, Sterling Rhyn, “25+ Welwitschia Goth (whimsical emo) Crochet Patterns to Make”, in Cactus Lady Creation, archived from the…. From the entry Welwitschia Goth
• This is the old Fulton Street Mall in twilight, a chaotic throwback to the era before the sanitization and, yes, mallification of New York City's retail districts.2007 December 23, Andy Newman, “Brooklyn Mall Is Oasis and Anomaly”, in New York Times. From the entry mallification
• Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998. From the entry apace
• The ten minutes of tropical twilight brought its quick melancholy and then the stars and the three-quarter moon blazed down and the sea died to a whisper.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 185. From the entry three-quarter moon
• When twilight came I had vaguely wished some clouds would gather, for an odd timidity about the deep skyey voids above had crept into my soul.1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space. From the entry skyey
• I peered at his rather featureless face through the moony twilight; and then he suddenly rose and paced the path with the impatience of a schoolboy.c. 1915, G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown's Solution. From the entry moony
• They will be in one of a multitude of twilight languages, which seep through the gate that leads from the Realm of Creation to the Physical Realm and vice versa.1987, Laeh Maggie Garfield, Sound Medicine, Berkeley, C.A.: Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry twilight language

Meaning of twilight

1. noun The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
2. noun The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
3. noun Any faint light through which something is seen.

Full definition of twilight

More about twilight

• Meaning of twilight
• Synonyms of twilight
• Plural of twilight
• Twilight in Hindi
• Twilight in Tamil
• Twilight in Marathi
• Twilight in Urdu

Questions about twilight in a sentence

How do you use twilight in a sentence?

Twilight is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “I could just make out her face in the twilight.”

What is a short sentence with twilight?

“The twilight of one's life”

What does twilight mean?

Twilight means the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.