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crepuscular

adjective

Definition of crepuscular

as in twilit

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Recent Examples of crepuscular Everything was bathed in a crepuscular, dreamlike Mediterranean light. — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026 Smith, who at 36 has reached the crepuscular stage of his career, was emotional following the game. — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025 And his use of color — bold reds, crepuscular blues, hopeful yellows — is impossible to forget. — Ernesto Lechner, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025 As crepuscular animals, felines are most active at dawn and dusk, which their ancestors used to their advantage to hunt in the wild, according to an article from the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crepuscular

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Adjective

Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.

— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
Zegler is the true find, a marvelous singer and a radiant persona, and Spielberg and Kaminski film her like a bright flare in a twilit ocean; her sheer presence papers over some of the more facile aspects of Maria’s characterization.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021

Definition of twilit

Adjective

When the summer heat creeps to unbearable temperatures, pre-dawn and post-dusk become the most appealing times to run.

— Outside Online, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2022
Mylar space blankets draped across their shoulders glistened a surreal golden hue as the vessel’s blinding strobe lights illuminated the post-dusk spectacle.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2021

Definition of dusk

Adjective

New yellows move between musky and citrusy, while additions to the cooler end of the spectrum include restorative greens, meditative blues and purples ranging from dusky to glamorous.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
In these pieces, which are coated in a palette of bright reds, dusky purples, black, and burl, their provenance becomes even murkier.

— Jill Singer, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of dusky

Adjective

This trend has been pretty pervasive among designer bags recently, with shoppers buying new Prada and Chanel bags with darkened leather to give them a used look, or sourcing vintage Celine bags with obvious signs of wear.

— Irene Richardson, InStyle, 2 July 2026
She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of darkened

Adjective

Such black holes would be extremely hard to spot and thus might account for some or all of the universe’s dark matter—an invisible, lightless something that seems to act like gravitational glue, binding together galaxies and galaxy clusters.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
Oh, and the grief was almost a person of its own, darkening the minds of some of the characters as much as any lightless corridor could darken a space.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of lightless

Adjective

Even worse, the wing screens — the big digital screens mounted at the base of the F50’s wingsail — were fizzling out with the excess water torrenting out of the gloomy Sassnitz sky.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Leaving the gloomy depths of Greg’s childhood unexplored may be for the best.

— T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of gloomy

Adjective

All parents struggle in some way to adjust to life as empty nesters, but Charlie leaves his mom and dad in a somber, reflective state that casts a heavy pall over an episode that drifts toward the turgid.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
The clubhouse was somewhat somber Friday afternoon, with players still feeling shaken up after witnessing one of the scariest collisions many had ever seen on a baseball field.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

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