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
Somaliland’s half-light existence as an unrecognized state has complicated its pandemic response.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2022
The time period is that mystical half-light of history when Scandinavia was little more than scattered Norse villages; when wisdom was woven with superstition much as the land is interlaced with fjords.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
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
In the half-light of dawn, I plunge my hand deeper into the darkness inside the wall, searching for honey, dreaming, as always, of golden treasures.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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