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

Houses, tucked in the hillside in the foreground of the painting, emerge from the shadows of the gloaming.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2020

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