half-light
Example Sentences
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It was impossible to tell what was happening just offshore in the half-light.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
In “Resurrection,” Rebecca Hall speaks for seven minutes, in the hushed half-light of an office after hours, to an intern she has been mentoring.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
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
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
They stood looking at each other in the half-light, Faber and Montag, as if each did not believe in the other's existence.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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