How to Use twilight in a Sentence

twilight

noun
  • The sun set and twilight fell.
  • Is this the twilight of the breakups?
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The hour of twilight grew denser.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In twilight, the bear comes face-to-face with a pack of wolves.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The twilights of these long-term deals might be bitter.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • This is twilight music, played at the edge of grief and grace.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
  • There are two other types of twilight.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And port and a good cigar in the twilight and quiet to smoke it in.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • Games, a twilight hike and s’mores around the campfire are planned.
    — Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • There are twilight and evening rates available.
    — Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But even the sure-bet shows are iffy in this fearful maybe-twilight of the virus.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Standing in the twilight as the cows grazed on dirty hay, the air felt still and silent.
    — Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Slowly, like ghosts from the twilight, the field emerged just past the top of the stretch.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 19 May 2018
  • One of the best shows of the year is this week in the evening twilight in the western sky.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • The four-course meals with a view take place at twilight and are paired with wine and spirits.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Saturn should be bright enough to see around twilight in the southeast sky.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • Yet today, in the twilight of the decade, the picture is cheerier.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Rorem’s twilight, like that of his peers, was a modest and quiet one.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The trees, the meadow, the valley, the hills, the twilight, all of it.
    — Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • And which league would best suit the now 34-year-old in the twilight of his career?
    — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Or the twilight of Chicago as a place that still holds secrets?
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Mars languishes low in morning twilight for the fifth month in a row.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 May 2026
  • That opens the door to some high-profile players in the twilight of their career.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2024
  • Raman, on the other hand, was at the twilight of his career when the show closed.
    — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Both are nearly 70 years old and in the twilight of their careers.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But twilight has its own advantages.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • The film sounds earnest and touching in a minor, twilight-of-the-’60s way.
    — chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • Adding to the litany of shabbiness is the fact that the company is in its twilight.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • All the colors in the collection can be found during twilight in the sky.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • But while humans are stuck in the dark, reindeer have evolved to be able to see in the mid-winter twilight.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023

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