How to Use twilight in a Sentence

twilight

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  • The sun set and twilight fell.
  • In twilight, the bear comes face-to-face with a pack of wolves.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Standing in the twilight as the cows grazed on dirty hay, the air felt still and silent.
    — Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • What happens when twilight is in the middle of the day?
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Games, a twilight hike and s’mores around the campfire are planned.
    — Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • But even the sure-bet shows are iffy in this fearful maybe-twilight of the virus.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • That night, Jupiter will be the brightest thing at twilight.
    — Marisol Chávez, Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Early risers can catch the moon and Venus in the morning twilight of Sept. 11 and 12.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • So, are the tech leviathans entering the twilight at last?
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Raman, on the other hand, was at the twilight of his career when the show closed.
    — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Music started and beat on into the twilight; the shadows stretched from the roots of the trees.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The Sheep Meadow at twilight: silvery light, wet leaves on the grass.
    — EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • That opens the door to some high-profile players in the twilight of their career.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2024
  • This is when the sky will appear as if in civil twilight.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The 55-year-old Daly rode in a golf cart because of a balky knee and is well into the twilight of a career.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • All the colors in the collection can be found during twilight in the sky.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Rorem’s twilight, like that of his peers, was a modest and quiet one.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • But while humans are stuck in the dark, reindeer have evolved to be able to see in the mid-winter twilight.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Now Jupiter and Saturn are difficult to see in the glare of twilight.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • For the best chance to see all five planets in the night sky at once, look to the southeast horizon in the morning twilight.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The world Scorsese recreates is an Old West in its twilight.
    — David Klion, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2023
  • There is also the challenge of tracking balls in the lights and in the twilight and those hit into no-man’s land.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
  • As the twilight deepens the sixth planet Saturn will emerge about 4° above it.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Phifer’s favorite hour here is twilight, when the frame is distilled down to light, dark, sound and time.
    — Scott Frances, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The sky darkens to a twilight blue, with sunset oranges at the horizon.
    — Katie Peek, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
  • By the time the project is complete, Mr. Shelley will be further along in the twilight of his career.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2021
  • At the start of the month, Jupiter will shine brightly in the night sky above the horizon as morning twilight begins at 5:42 a.m.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Civil twilight is the time when the center of the sun’s disk is six degrees below the horizon.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Some of the women honored in the exhibit are in the twilight of their careers.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 23 May 2021
  • The details vary depending on your location, but out in the western U.S. and Canada the moon will already be among the Pleiades stars soon after the sun has set and the twilight sky darkens.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025

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