gloaming
Example Sentences
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I’m more of an evening than a morning person, so this arrangement makes viewing Mercury easier for me, and I’m always delighted when I can catch it in the gloaming.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
“In Gates’s telling,” noted our reviewer, Jon Meacham, the Black church “shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022
Here’s to their eternal gloaming on the brightest Seattle summer days, to their pull tabs and to their stink of late-night desperation.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
The players can barely be seen but can somehow see each other, and they run plays crisply through the gloaming without a stumble.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2019
The last of the gloaming had become night.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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