as in dusky
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of twilit
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
Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.
—New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
Robert Macfarlane’s writings exist in a liminal, twilit place where language and landscape dissolve into one another.
—Tobias Carroll, Longreads, 20 June 2019
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
Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.
—New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
Robert Macfarlane’s writings exist in a liminal, twilit place where language and landscape dissolve into one another.
—Tobias Carroll, Longreads, 20 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twilit
Adjective
-
The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
-
Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
-
Photograph Of The Year Winners Anti crepuscular rays at Cono de Arita in La Puna, Argentina create an atmospheric optical phenomenon that appears as beams of light converging towards a point opposite the sun in the sky.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
-
Responding to this, predators have also adopted crepuscular schedules since that is when their prey is more active.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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
Adjective
-
For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them.—
Sidney Stevens,
Treehugger,
14 Mar. 2025
-
Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.—
Jay Katsir,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
-
Its 19th-century spire lit up like a matchstick against the darkling sky, its tip cracking and plunging through the ceiling.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
-
Potential remedies for an unlit Mundelein intersection — about which an area resident raised concerns to the Lake County Board — remain unclear, with the state and village disputing who is even responsible for overhead lighting there.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
-
Once stationary, deactivate all lights except the hazard flashers, engage the emergency brake, and release the brake pedal to ensure your tail lights remain unlit, minimizing the chance of other drivers colliding with your stationary vehicle.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
-
But Caught Stealing’s pitch-black, pulpy mode reveals the drawbacks of prioritizing style over all else.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
-
Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
-
Canva Sans Variable Canva Sans Variable Recent surveys of consumer sentiment seem to echo these gloomy results.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
-
Meanwhile, analysts at EY-Parthenon sounded gloomier about the housing market in a report that also came out on Tuesday, predicting that home prices will turn negative on an annual basis by year-end due to low demand and rising inventories.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Twilit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twilit. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share