How to Use crepuscular in a Sentence

crepuscular

adjective
  • Those are called crepuscular rays - one of my all-time favorite terms.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2012
  • That is only one of the questions that hover in the humid, crepuscular air.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • The encounter happened around dusk, when crepuscular creatures like brown bears tend to be more active.
    — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There is more twilight than frenzy in these crepuscular chapters.
    — James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • The animals are crepuscular, tending to be most active at dawn and dusk as well as after dark.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2017
  • In the wild, red pandas are solitary, tree-dwelling and crepuscular − active at dusk and dawn − the release said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2023
  • The rabbits are crepuscular—most active in early morning and at dusk.
    — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Kleinman said copperheads are crepuscular and most active at dusk and dawn, but they can be found active during the day.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • The effect, known as crepuscular rays, is caused by scattering of the sun’s rays by smoke, haze or other particles.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The rooms are small and claustrophobic, sometimes crepuscular, and the flow awkward.
    — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Smith, who at 36 has reached the crepuscular stage of his career, was emotional following the game.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Lighting by Michael Boll is penitentiary bright by day and crepuscular at night.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Tour by van into sections of the forest where crepuscular and nocturnal creatures are most active.
    — The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The crepuscular lighting was a prelude to Pugh’s raucous after-party in the same venue later that night.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2018
  • There’s a crepuscular somberness, a feeling of looking back on the perfect day, knowing bliss won’t last forever.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Treehugger says rabbits, skunks, possums are among crepuscular species.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • These stony shelters are called by many different names, like rock shelters, rockhouses, crepuscular caves and bluff shelters.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Many creatures are crepuscular — most active at dusk and dawn — including some species of butterflies, bees, deer, rabbits, even house cats.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • Under plans proposed for the Utah parks, tour groups can forget about flying over Bryce when the hoodoos are bathed in the crepuscular glow of dusk or dawn.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And his use of color — bold reds, crepuscular blues, hopeful yellows — is impossible to forget.
    — Ernesto Lechner, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Even if there are shadows of danger in the slow, crepuscular central section, the atmosphere is one of white nights in Leningrad, of brightness in the dark.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • And, as the Nixon story shows, Hoover’s crepuscular hold over Presidents was tenacious.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, all versions of the game include a variety of visual toggles, including Sun flares, heat hazes, screen dirt, and crepuscular rays.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The shipyard was still for the day, and only the occasional police helicopter overhead broke the lush crepuscular silence.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The wolf ignites a crepuscular uncertainty about what’s fact and what’s fable, about how to differentiate between bared teeth and lolling tongue.
    — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • His color palettes, which can range from brilliant orange and blue to crepuscular pinks and purples, seem to evoke land, sky and light in its myriad reflective and refractive states.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Yet Sebald also published crepuscular poems and prose in the student newspaper.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The star attractions are Goya’s etchings, displayed in a large, crepuscular room that protects these delicate artworks from light damage.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Image The lighting, uncredited, is crepuscular, outlining the strange forms that slither, shiver and creep in from the wings.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 July 2018

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