Sample sentences for TWILIGHT - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
pink clouds in a twilight sky

Definition

the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time

twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness

I awakened to a twilight sky, but did not know if the sun was setting or rising.

twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness

Due to its orbit, Mercury can only be viewed near the western horizon after sunset or the eastern horizon before sunrise—usually in twilight.

twilight = the light from the sky when the sun is just below the horizon

I don't know whether it is morning or evening, I lie in the pale cradle of the twilight,
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness

twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness

when we ran out of the trees I could see the twilight again, that quality of light as if time really had stopped for a while, with the sun hanging just under the horizon,
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

twilight = between daylight and darkness

It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness

By the time I reached the mountains, it was deep twilight, the trees like shadows of themselves.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness

The sunset faded to twilight before anything further happened.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

twilight = the time of day immediately following sunset

2 —as in:
the twilight of her career

Definition

a condition of decline following successes

twilight = a condition of decline following successes

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god self,
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

twilight = a condition of decline following successes

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

twilight = a condition of decline following successes

This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

twilight = elderly years

twilight = a condition of decline

Less commonly:

Much more rarely, twilight can refer to

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