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twilit

[ UK /twˈɪlɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lighted by or as if by twilight
    The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn
    the twilight glow of the sky
    a boat on a twilit river

How To Use twilit In A Sentence

  • It was a dim, twilit gloom filled the enormous tunnels, muffling all hints of life within them.
  • He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge.
  • The twilit subterranean chambers carried undertones of the cave sanctuaries.
  • In contrast to the suggestion of its title, ‘Chiaro’ changes the atmosphere to something twilit, as though the listener had strayed from sunlit beaches into a shadowy jungle full of hidden creatures.
  • Outside on the deck, she went immediately to the railing and looked out over the twilit Square.
  • Yesterday I walked down to the pool, via the exquisite twilit waterfront where the sea lay like cool mercury, barely rippling, and small boats mirrored themselves.
  • The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristocrats sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world.
  • Binoculars help reveal background stars in the twilit sky as Venus glides past the top of the ‘teapot’ of the constellation Sagittarius during the first third of the month.
  • Here bright colors jump out from twilit gloom; synthetic pinks and greens jar the eye.
  • Late on the twilit Alaskan summer night, she confronted him on the Juneau Company wharf.
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