twilit

Example Sentences

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The global pursuit of whales inescapably connotes the romance of nineteenth-century New Bedford and Nantucket: delicately embossed scrimshaw, Melville, oil paintings of stately twilit schooners setting out on the main.

From The New Yorker

So when Priya and me turned our heads, we looked down at the smoky twilit water fuming and roiling phosphorescent white under electric arc lamps, like it was picked out in radium paint.

From The Verge

For a few minutes between the setting of the wintry sun and the rising of the fattened moon, that twilit orange was the only illumination.

From New York Times

The others, at least those I know about, are either still stuck in the narrow twilit world of anorexia, or dead.

From The Guardian

It generously opened its doors, and the back wall of its open-air stage, so we could film Rachel there with a twilit desert backdrop.

From New York Times