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
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
In Gates’s telling, the Black church, too, shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth — as it is in heaven.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021
His eyes pierce the gloaming to trace a sinking drive struck by Houston’s Alex Bregman.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2019
Then the bows of three boats began to materialize out of the gloaming, just beyond the railroad bridge.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.