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

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

For now, Huggins had to get home, so she ran out to her car once more and pulled out from the post office, her yellow blinker dissolving into the gloaming.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2018

Only a glimpse, as through a tall window, could be seen of the great valley in the gloaming below.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien