[
UK
/twˈɪlɪt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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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.