Example sentences for: sunset

How can you use “sunset” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Unhidden by vegetation, the colors of the rocks — brick red, ochre, green, and purple-brown — are dramatically deepened at sunset and dawn, creating unforgettable views.

  • Bus tours converge on Uluwatu toward sunset, and the romance of the place is somewhat spoiled.

  • Here, the felucca (Nile sailboat) pilots gather, trying to sell an afternoon or sunset trip on their graceful craft, and Nile Cruisers lie several abreast, disgorging their passengers for tours or shopping trips.

  • A few years ago, she chased another rival, singer/songwriter Mary Lou Lord, down Sunset Boulevard after Lord showed up uninvited at the after party for one of her shows.

  • Thus, kick the bucket is listed in the category E29e Pork (because of its presumed etymology, Slaughtered pigs are hung by the heels from the bucket or beam) while go west appears under G12e Sunset, bite the dust (questionably defined as brought low) appears at C10f Winning and losing the battle, buy the farm (which I cannot find in the OED ) is listed under E7a Land (where it is labeled as an Americanism, confuting my understanding that it originated with the R.A.F., early in WWII), and cash in your chips/ checks goes under K77c Roulette (which might be all right for a British English classification, but I think that Americans would expect to find it at K81 Poker ).


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