Twilight

//ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt//

"Twilight" in a Sentence (19 examples)

We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.

There was eternal twilight in the place.

The twilight came on.

The twilight merged into darkness.

It's getting more and more shadowy, soon it will be twilight.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The tree stands motionless, clothed in twilight, thickly bedecked with dewdrops.

We all know you go to the cinema to watch "Twilight" because of its "brilliant script" and not because of its actors.

They arrived at twilight.

I love twilight.

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Near-synonym: half-light

I could just make out her face in the twilight.

It was twilight by the time I got back home.

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

Two women, Eusabio’s wife and sister, looked on from the deep twilight of the hut.

The twilight of one's life

, Book IV, Chapter XIV The twilight […] of probability.

“They have not enough heart,” said Edith, with a smile. The very twilight of a smile: so singularly were its light and darkness blended.

twilight zone

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