All 5 Uses
twilight
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(Auto-generated)
- ...and the sky's orange and ash grey at twilight,
Part 1 *twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Waiting, his eyes were dark as twilight, with shadows under the eyes from the time, his mother said, he had almost died when he was three and still remembered.†
Part 1
- 'Why — ' Jim examined his friend, curiously, twilight in his face 'no one can tell you.†
Part 1
- Then, in the crowds, he moved to the carnival ground, stayed out of tents, stayed free of rides, observed, watched the sun go down, and just at twilight, surveyed the cold glass waters of the Mirror Maze and saw just enough on the shore to pull him back before he drowned.†
Part 2
- Fear itself was proof here, and he had seen enough fear in his fife to know it, like the smell from a butcher's shop in summer twilight.†
Part 2
Definitions:
-
(1)
(twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time
-
(2)
(twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
-
(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to