How to Use twilight zone in a Sentence

twilight zone

noun
  • He gets lost in the twilight zone of video games.
  • The gray zone is the new twilight zone.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • As far as the law is concerned, though, bum deals are a twilight zone.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Take a stroll through their twisted twilight zone on view through May 6.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The twilight zone is too deep for divers to reach and explore, adding to the allure of this species.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Most dive as far down as the twilight zone, where the dim light from above rapidly dwindles to nothing.
    — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • In the center of one room was a display of spiny king crabs, sea stars, and translucent spot prawns, denizens of the twilight zone.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Others, from the twilight zone, bent their arms completely backward, as if looking up to gauge day or night.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • This twilight zone is home to critical ecosystems like coral reefs that are home to the diverse fish species that maintain them.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 5 June 2018
  • The twilight zone frequency of the city is easy to romanticize.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes trying to get into a goalie’s mind is like traveling into a twilight zone.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2018
  • But in the ocean’s twilight zone, transparency has really taken off.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2022
  • And late autumn is empty too, empty like streets after a war, like a dozen twilight zones where everyone is dead and gone.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Some researchers suggest that there are at least a million undescribed species living in the ocean’s twilight zone.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2022
  • These were cave crickets, chirp-less bugs that feed on daddy longlegs and other insects that gather in the twilight zone.
    — Taras Grescoe, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Not that long ago, the ocean’s twilight zone was considered relatively devoid of life.
    — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Well, the weird twilight zone between Xmas and New Year’s is over, Miley.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2022
  • But to veil their silhouettes, many of the twilight zone’s animals have evolved to become transparent.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Diving to the ocean’s upper twilight zone is a treacherous endeavor.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Within the twilight zone, researchers were surprised to discover that more than half of the unique gene clusters found belonged to fungi.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • On Mercury, the dividing line between day and night, the terminator, is more than just a twilight zone.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Earth will be in a twilight zone and terrible things will likely happen in the form of droughts, wildfires, super-storms, and hurricanes.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The scientists hope this will give them a much more detailed picture about life in the twilight zone — and how to protect this mysterious part of the ocean.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The phytoplankton themselves live above the twilight zone, residing in the sunlit upper ocean.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
  • Super-LumiNova hands are readable in the sea’s twilight zone.
    — Will Palmer, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Then ask yourself if the goals will stand up to the twilight zone (a head nod to the popular, old American TV show).
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • So the top layer of the deep ocean beneath the sunlight layer, which ends at 600 feet, is called the twilight zone or the Mesopelagic.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Mounted high off the floor, the angled thigh cushion shores you up for relaxed control, and for comfort that carries you from an early start to well beyond the twilight zone.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The sea level was low, and weird-looking creatures that normally inhabit the deep twilight zone of the ocean were bobbing near the water's surface.
    — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • The extra-long shower, a weirdly gripping Al Roker segment--don't fall into these twilight zones.
    — Redbook, 5 Sep. 2012

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