twilit

Example Sentences

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Moving through it feels uncannily like entering one of his moody, twilit paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The second, audible less frequently until 1990’s “Vineland,” sounds looser, freer, warmer, more improvisational, more curious about love and family, increasingly wistful, all but twilit with rue.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

Druks, for her part, “paints women with their animal familiars and pagan accouterments, still lifes of twilit tables set with magic objects, all in deep, jeweled colors, full of hidden dream meanings,” Janssen said.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Later, under a twilit sky, we swam in the pool and roasted marshmallows — multiple fire pits are scattered over the property — and ducked into the industrial kitchen to make our own meal.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

There had been no more than five hours’ darkness and that of a pallid, twilit quality which kept him wakeful and restless.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams