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half-light

[haf-lahyt, hahf-] / ˈhæfˌlaɪt, ˈhɑf- /




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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

There is a palpable sadness that emanates from her image of a shell-shocked Lennon standing in the ghostly half-light, but she much preferred another portrait she made in the same session.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2020

Was I jealous of the garnish on Moira’s cocktail, semi-visible in the half-light, possibly several actual blackberries impaled on a little stick?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2018

It was only a dark square in the half-light; there were no lights on, and to a casual traveler on the road, no sign of life.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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