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
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
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
The last of the gloaming had become night.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.