half-light
Example Sentences
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It was impossible to tell what was happening just offshore in the half-light.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2024
Statues of Charlie Brown, Lucy and the ever-gleeful Snoopy stood amid redwoods in the half-light beyond the old Kress building.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022
The time period is that mystical half-light of history when Scandinavia was little more than scattered Norse villages; when wisdom was woven with superstition much as the land is interlaced with fjords.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
Cody stayed behind, but she and Michael kicked out in the frigid water, and in the half-light, Renee could see the shore around her wreathed in smoke, and orange flashes of flame.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2020
And in the half-light of evening the dung carts had come out, attended by half-naked slaves whose task it was to shovel up the steaming piles left by elephants both great and small.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
