dusk
Example Sentences
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I wait a long time with my face upturned toward the sky, and when at last I give up, dusk is settling over the mountains.
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“A black cloud billowed fast from the south, a thousand feet above the trees. It quickly pulled overhead, and the day grew dim like approaching dusk. It had to be the mountain.”
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Ahead of him, emerging from the wood in the dusk like a cluster of ambulant stars, came a herd of unicorns.
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We sit, alone together, as the soft dusk light streams through the stained glass windows.
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Just before dusk, we reach a small town called La Mora.
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