DUSK in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for DUSK, such as:

1. As dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.
2. After a long drive we finally hauled into town at dusk.
3. She peered through the gathering dusk down the two lines of ancient trees.
4. Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
5. The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUSK
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dusk
 n.  the darker stage of twilight.
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  And I hear the darkies coming home across the fields at dusk, tired and singing and ready for supper, and the sound of the windlass as the bucket goes down into the cool well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  She peered through the gathering dusk down the two lines of ancient trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  At length Lily withdrew her hand, and moved away a step, so that her white-robed slimness was outlined against the dusk of the branches.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  The conclusions it led him to were fortified, later in the evening, by some of those faint corroborative hints that generate a light of their own in the dusk of a doubting mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
8  A chill of fear passed over Miss Bart: a sense of remembered treachery that was like the gleam of a knife in the dusk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
9  Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The moment it was dusk she pulled down the window-shades, all the shades flush with the sill, but beyond them she felt moist fleering eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Doors no longer moved; curtains were not creeping shadows but lovely dark masses in the dusk; and when Bea came home Carol was singing at the piano which she had not touched for many days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  By dusk, the liquor warehouses, Hebraic clothing-shops, and lodging-houses on lower Hennepin Avenue were smoky, hideous, ill-tempered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  When she dreamed of being a woman of the harem, with great white warm limbs, she awoke to shudder, defenseless in the dusk of her room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.
2  After a long drive we finally hauled into town at dusk.
3  As dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.
4  Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
5  In order to catch them and keep up with the demand I used to wait till dusk and go out and set the sprinkler in the lawn and turn it on for about an hour.
6  The attack happened at dusk, which the report noted was prime alligator hunting time. The report also indicated that during the warm summer months the gator's drive for food would be stronger.