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

Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

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

His voice echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin