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twilight
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twilight as in:  pink clouds in a twilight sky

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    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
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    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
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    In the twilight Roy and Beatrice crept along, darting from one rusted hulk to the next.  (source)
    twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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    The last stains of sunset had melted away, and the twilight died, too,  (source)
    twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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    Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.†  (source)
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    With his downward course the tower of the church rose into the evening sky in a manner of inquiry as to why he had come; and no living person in the twilighted town seemed to notice him, still less to expect him.†  (source)
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    In the deepening twilight, the firelight illuminates our faces.  (source)
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    Laila likes Murree's cool, foggy mornings and its dazzling twilights, the dark brilliance of the sky at night; the green of the pines and the soft brown of the squirrels darting up and down the sturdy tree trunks; the sudden downpours that send shoppers in the Mall scrambling for awning cover.†  (source)
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    I went out the back door into the twilight.  (source)
    twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
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    Instead, she just sat on the side porch during those long summer twilights, smoking cigarettes and staring off into the side yard.†  (source)
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    It was so dark it was almost a silhouette; as he watched, the ship's running lights came on, brilliant in the dark purple twilight.  (source)
    twilight = light from the sky between daylight and darkness
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    But I see what it is, you are not from these parts, you don't know what our twilights can do.†  (source)
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    We rode a long time in the glow of it, everything silent except for the crickets and the frogs who were revving up for twilight.  (source)
    twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
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twilight as in:  the twilight of her career

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He ruled in the twilight of the empire.
twilight = a condition of decline following successes
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    She was more considerate in the twilight of her career.
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    I seem to be in a strange, continual twilight.  (source)
    twilight = a period of low energy following a more energetic time
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    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.  (source)
    twilight = elderly years
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    I have no time for worry in this twilight of my life.  (source)
    twilight = time of decline towards the end
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    He'd served the Army for nineteen years; he'd fought in two wars; he'd been passed over for promotion to lieutenant colonel, and—at a time when all the good "field grade" officers were in Washington or Vietnam—he'd ended up as a ROTC professor for his twilight tour of duty.  (source)
    twilight = a period of decline
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    But what I desire to know is this: When the twilight of the Nephilim comes, will the Courts stand with or against me?  (source)
    twilight = decline or fall
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    She never refused the favor, just as she never refused the countless men who sought her out, even in the twilight of her maturity, without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure.  (source)
    twilight = elderly years
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    The town was caught in the lingering twilight of a prior time, a way of life less typical of the Depression than of the Belle Epoque.  (source)
    twilight = time of decline following prior growth
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    The old king, however, who knew nothing of his sons' animosity, was very happy in the twilight of his reign and spent his days quietly walking and contemplating in the royal gardens.  (source)
    twilight = later and less energetic years
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    First I had to prove myself in places where I was not part of the landscape, but after just a little over six months in that crowded, frenetic newsroom in New York, and a couple more in the dark, miserable twilight of Haiti, I was as close to home as I would perhaps ever be.  (source)
    twilight = a condition of decline
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    ...the twilight of his own habitual stupor.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    twilight = a condition of decline following successes
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    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,  (source)
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rare meaning

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    He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.  (source)
    twilight = (figurative) the end-of-the-day before falling asleep
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    Or even Twilight.  (source)
    Twilight = the name of a novel and movie
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