often attributive
1
: the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust
also
: a time of twilight
2
a
: an intermediate state that is not clearly defined
lived in the twilight of neutrality—
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b
: a period of decline
Examples of twilight in a Sentence
The sun set and twilight fell.
stumbled around the twilight of the shuttered room, unable to see where she was going
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With Season 5 rolling out in three waves, beginning with Volume 1 (Episodes 1-4) on Nov. 26, followed by Volume 2 (Episodes 5-7) on Christmas and the Finale (Episode 8) on New Year’s Eve, the actor is savoring the twilight of a show that defined him.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
All the while, the Turkish top flight has built a reputation for attracting stars in their twilight years or bringing in talents looking to relaunch their careers after finding themselves at a dead end with their previous employers.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
The Lakers are set to start building around Doncic, as fellow superstar LeBron James is in the twilight years of his career.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
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Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
All the while, the Turkish top flight has built a reputation for attracting stars in their twilight years or bringing in talents looking to relaunch their careers after finding themselves at a dead end with their previous employers.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
The Lakers are set to start building around Doncic, as fellow superstar LeBron James is in the twilight years of his career.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for twilight
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“Twilight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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twilight
noun
twi·light
ˈtwī-ˌlīt 
: the period or the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night
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