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
He has returned to better understand his son, who left his home state of Kentucky as a young man for a life his family could never fathom and conveniently kept in a half-light.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2019
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
I creep out onto the landing and tiptoe down the stairs in the half-light.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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