TWILIGHT in a Sentence

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For TWILIGHT, below is one of 140 sentences:
She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mien of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWILIGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twilight
 n.  light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun; faint light; dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  He gazed blankly about the kitchen, which looked cold and squalid in the rainy winter twilight.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mien of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  They had reached the top of School House Hill and Starkfield lay below them in the twilight.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie, no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Moreover, now that she was away from Tara, she missed it dreadfully, missed the red fields and the springing green cotton and the sweet twilight silences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  And there's the long view down the road to the river, across the cotton fields, and the mist rising from the bottom lands in the twilight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  He had been silent since supper and had sat in the twilight listening to the war talk with a down-twisted mouth, holding the sleeping child against his shoulder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Later, in the long, hot summer twilight, the ambulances came rumbling down the road from the battle field and commissary wagons, covered with muddy canvas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  It might be just after twilight and it might be midnight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  But, as twilight came, they at last entered the final lap of the long journey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  But she loved him so much that, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  The dim gloom of drawn blinds and winter twilight closed about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of the long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence:
1  We went for a walk along the beach at twilight.
2  I couldn't see their faces clearly in the twilight.
3  It was hard to see him clearly in the twilight.
4  I could make out a dark figure in the twilight.
5  His walk soon becomes solitary, leading further and further into a wilderness where twilight is short and the shadows are dense.