gloaming

Example Sentences

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I’m more of an evening than a morning person, so this arrangement makes viewing Mercury easier for me, and I’m always delighted when I can catch it in the gloaming.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023

This golden-hour gloaming lends the show a dreamy, fairy-tale quality.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

Here’s to their eternal gloaming on the brightest Seattle summer days, to their pull tabs and to their stink of late-night desperation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

The players can barely be seen but can somehow see each other, and they run plays crisply through the gloaming without a stumble.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2019

In front of him lights sprang out in the gloaming; dogs barked; feet came running.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien