half-light
Example Sentences
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Statues of Charlie Brown, Lucy and the ever-gleeful Snoopy stood amid redwoods in the half-light beyond the old Kress building.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022
The room where the picture was taken is the "Eighteenth Century Room" and the photo has a rather painterly quality, with its rich red and gold colours, the King portrayed in half-light and half-shadow.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2022
The time period is that mystical half-light of history when Scandinavia was little more than scattered Norse villages; when wisdom was woven with superstition much as the land is interlaced with fjords.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
A heavy boxing bag swung with barely perceptible creaks, keeping time in the half-light of the dusty old garage.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
He was looking past the rim of half-light that came from the cabin window and pushed back the darkness in a circle that lost itself around the ends of the cabin.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
