All 10 Uses
twilight
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Ceremony, by Silko
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- Twilight was giving way to darkness.
Chpt All *twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness (in this case, just after sunset; though in other usage, it could be just before sunrise)
- He walked down floors that smelled of old wax and disinfectant, watching the outlines of his feet; as he walked, the days and seasons disappeared into a twilight at the corner of his eyes, a twilight he could catch only with a sudden motion, jerking his head to one side for a glimpse of green leaves pressed against the bars on the window.†
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- He walked down floors that smelled of old wax and disinfectant, watching the outlines of his feet; as he walked, the days and seasons disappeared into a twilight at the corner of his eyes, a twilight he could catch only with a sudden motion, jerking his head to one side for a glimpse of green leaves pressed against the bars on the window.†
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- Their medicine drained memory out of his thin arms and replaced it with a twilight cloud behind his eyes.†
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- If they had not dressed him and led him to the car, he would still be there, drifting along the north wall, invisible in the gray twilight.†
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- The sun was down, and the twilight chill sucked the last of the deer's life away—the eyes were dull and sunken; it was gone.†
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- Tayo was aware of how dim the room was then with no light except the faint twilight still coming in the windows.†
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- He walked to Cubero in the twilight, looking up occasionally at the mountain, where the peaks were caught in the sunset.†
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- "Look," Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight.†
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- At twilight the earth was darker than the sky, and it was difficult to see if any of Romero's sheep or goats were grazing along the edge of the pavement.†
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Definitions:
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(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
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(2)
(twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, twilight can refer to