half-light

Example Sentences

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Even in the half-light, the words You'll Never Walk Alone, the Rodgers and Hammerstein song forever linked with Liverpool Football Club, were unmistakable.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

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

Cody stayed behind, but she and Michael kicked out in the frigid water, and in the half-light, Renee could see the shore around her wreathed in smoke, and orange flashes of flame.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2020

The blackbird flew off his shoulder and vanished in midair, and there was the angel again, sulking in the half-light.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman