twilight

The shadow cast by the alignment of Sun and Moon creates a strange twilight during which temperatures drop, shadows appear at strange angles and some animals go to sleep.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 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

In part, the bonding occurred because the correspondence of their twilight years permitted both sages to confront and argue out their different notions of the history they had lived and made together.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Because of the longevity of their careers, too many people will remember them mostly in their twilights, which is a shame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

And there have been others who won as role players in the twilights of their careers, such as Gary Payton and Jason Kidd.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 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

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

Thou hast thy crocodiles: on rotten logs Afloat, the turtles swarm and bask: the frogs, When come the pale, cold twilights of the spring, Like distant sleigh-bells through the meadows ring.

From The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers