Example sentences for: twilight

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

  • crepuscular Has always evoked for me images of muscles or funereal trimmings or infected tissue, instead of twilight or evening.

  • Twilight

  • This from Reuters: "Druids danced, Muslims prayed, Hindus bathed, and Europeans stopped work and took to the streets as an eerie twilight followed by darkness covered their capitals at about noon."

  • A faith in magic, in the spirit world, became his aesthetic: He denounced naturalism, fought George Bernard Shaw's "mechanistic" vision (he once had a dream in which Shaw appeared, clicking like a sewing-machine and smiling insanely), and proposed a poetry of dream and Celtic twilight that would shun the hustle of the world.

  • After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.


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