twilight
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As twilight settled on a hillside by the river near the eastern Ukrainian front, two soldiers exchanged wedding vows during a Slavic ritual honouring ancestors and fallen warriors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Age suggests Salah is entering the twilight of his career, but there is evidence he still has plenty to offer.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Tiny Spanish village gets ready for rare double twilight.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
So if James wanted to spend his twilight chasing an elusive fifth championship, the single smartest thing he could do was take a pay cut to join a ready-made contender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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One of the knocks on LIV was that so many of its big names were in the twilights of their careers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
And so many kids spend their twilights there still hoping and shooting and trying again until the night falls.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
Our sunsets may hang on in the sky like a painting dangling from a nail, not for us the lingering twilights, the “heures bleues” of elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
Harris won a Tony Award — her fifth — for a performance that Kerr called a “generous, spiny, proud, bemusedly defiant, subtly yielding evocation of Emily Dickinson’s mornings, twilights, and sometimes busy midnights.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2019
The waning summer was stimulating his imagination with warm noons and gusty twilights; Chator's gossip broke the spell.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
Vocabulary lists containing twilight
Words from the 4th of July Songbook
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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