SUNSET in a Sentence

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This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUNSET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sunset
 n.  daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  I had been to see Miss Westenra, whom I found much better, and had just returned, and was standing at our own gate looking at the sunset, when once more I heard him yelling.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Stop; there may be a clue after all, if we can find why to-day his paroxysms came on at high noon and at sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  I shall be at hand all the night from sunset till after the sunrise, and if there be aught that may be learned I shall learn it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  We must sterilise all the imported earth between sunrise and sunset; we shall thus catch the Count at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  The time is coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  She has not been so calm, within my seeing, since the sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  I thought at the time that it was the softness of the red sunset on her face, but somehow now I think it has a deeper meaning.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  See, and the sun is just rose, and all day to sunset is to us.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Our best hope is to come on him when in the box between sunrise and sunset; for then he can make no struggle, and we may deal with him as we should.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  I am sure that there is something on her mind which the time of exact sunset will reveal.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs. Harker a little before the time of sunset.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear.
2  Do not praise a day before sunset.
3  The changing vivid colours of the sunset fascinated the eye.
4  Your sunset, my face,who onethird years.
5  At the end of the movie, the hero rides off into the sunset.
6  A bright moving object appeared in the sky at sunset.
7  Though the sunset fell, love eternity.
8  The tugboat will tow the barge away before sunset.
9  When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise and sunset.
10  The sloth is at its busiest at sunset, using the word busy here in a most relaxed sense.
11  As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the Sun, and not the center; this slightly increases the duration of "day" relative to "night."
12  Rochester followed me, and when we reached the wicket, he said-- "Turn back: on so lovely a night it is a shame to sit in the house; and surely no one can wish to go to bed while sunset is thus at meeting with moonrise.