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

Two hours later in the California gloaming, List secured an even better treat for little Ryann List.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2022

The gray gloaming and hallucinatory mists envelop a spare and savage landscape, with the witches shape shifting into three black birds.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2021

There are exceptions, of course, to the rout of big old trees, including the old growth in the gloaming of the Pacific Northwest’s rainforests.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2020

In the gloaming to the east, he can make out a gray line of traffic herded between the edges of the road.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr