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Recent Examples of twilit
Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.
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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
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The wine selection highlights a broad curation of some of the region’s best wines, including from the Lagrein grape with its dusky dark fruit and full bodied structure.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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The pork comes with a roll of corn tortillas, half a lime, onions piqued with vinegar and heat, and fiery green and dusky red salsas to create your own tacos, along with the best chicharrones.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Amazingly, not one species included in the dataset showed an exclusively crepuscular pattern of dawn and dusk activity, as defined in the study, despite many animals being characterized as such in prior research.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2025
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Use that as a guide to cut wedges in the shape of crepuscular rays of sunlight, with the rinds as the base (see photo below).—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While clear skies prevailed for last year’s Xfinity Series race, the Cup Series race was once again shortened when rain delays forced officials to call the race after 58 laps as darkness fell on the unlit street course.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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Those around him did not know the weed sprayer was filled with gasoline, or that the nearby black container with a yellow top held at least 14 unlit Molotov cocktails: wine bottles and Ball jars filled with gas, red rags tucked into them as fuses.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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Active adventures include zip-lining through the jungle, scaling giant ficus trees, or venturing out into the pitch-black night to search for nocturnal animals with a wildlife guide.—
Sarah Bruning,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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In the pitch-black, storm-lashed hours before dawn Friday, surging floodwaters unexpectedly ravaged the region, including a campsite filled with sleeping children.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Even in those earliest of gloomy days, oxygen — the element O — was all over the place, bound up in molecules like water vapor and quartz and carbon dioxide.—
Laura Poppick,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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But if your yard isn’t particularly shady or a sunny day suddenly turns gloomy, being outside isn’t quite as comfortable.—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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However, while circumstances were smooth-sailing at the start, things quickly took a somber turn on July 2, 1937.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
People.com,
2 July 2025
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His overjoyed demeanor starkly contrasted with his somber appearance in court just a day before when jurors said they were deadlocked on one of the five counts.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
2 July 2025
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“Twilit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twilit. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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