Wondering how to use Dusk in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as twilight or hour.
Dusk meaning
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Synonyms of Dusk
Using Dusk
- The main meaning on this page is: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
- Useful related words include: twilight, time of day, hour, crepuscle.
- In the example corpus, dusk often appears in combinations such as: at dusk, to dusk, dusk and.
Context around Dusk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dusk
- In this selection, "dusk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, noon, ancient, sun, night, dawn and makes stand out and add context to how "dusk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a noon dusk night another and ancient dusk the parties. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dusk" sits close to words such as airplanes, brigadier and calorie, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dusk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fireworks will go off at dusk. (6 words)
Avoid hiking at dusk, dawn, or at night. (8 words)
Dusk fades to night, and Picard fades into history. (9 words)
As we exited the field at dusk, a red-tailed hawk that had likely spotted the grouse for dinner from his high perch but was no doubt interrupted by our sudden presence in his field of prey simply glided away in the opposite direction. (44 words)
Macías said that she and Chapa had previously thought about the possibility of a bear encounter — they are not unknown in the park, though usually the bears come out more toward dawn or dusk, not midday — and they had come up with a plan. (44 words)
In between are a noon, dusk, night, another dusk, and another noon, during which a nameless protagonist (played by Alsharif’s friend Diego Marcon) traverses a house in Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, a French castle, and the Italian city of Matera. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
In between are a noon, dusk, night, another dusk, and another noon, during which a nameless protagonist (played by Alsharif’s friend Diego Marcon) traverses a house in Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, a French castle, and the Italian city of Matera.
A great-horned owl, perhaps, hooting outside your window after dusk.
Ancient Dusk… the Parties signed the contract on the ninth of this month.
And when it came to sun dusk, we switched to the night mode.
As I am writing this, I am in a wild place where Venus lights the way at dusk and dawn and Scorpio is clear and bright in the night sky.
As we exited the field at dusk, a red-tailed hawk that had likely spotted the grouse for dinner from his high perch but was no doubt interrupted by our sudden presence in his field of prey simply glided away in the opposite direction.
Avoid hiking at dusk, dawn, or at night.
A word of advice: this is not the place you want to visit if you have a craving to be pampered or waited upon from dawn till dusk.
Be especially alert in the evenings; farmers are returning from the fields and dusk makes farm vehicles more difficult to see.
Bolting across the roads the deer have thrown many unsuspecting motorcyclists, who take to the roads at dawn or dusk, off their motorbikes.
During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, usually having a predawn meal before the fast begin.
Dusk fades to night, and Picard fades into history.
Dusk gave way to darkness as my boyfriend and I drove up the narrow brushy highway past Prince George, B.C., toward our home in Whitehorse.
Fireworks were fired off on Sunday at dusk over the lake.
Fireworks will go off at dusk.
He was killed neither by Man or animal; was killed at dusk which was neither night nor day; and was throttled when he was raised off the ground.
His mentor was famous for utilizing scenes connected to dawn, dusk, and nightfall.
In a semi-staged reading of “At Dusk”, “Thomas”, “Penny Dreadful” and “Drought” at Margarita Georgiadis’ and Max Cullen’s Picture House Gallery in Gunning during 2021, Nixon was joined by Christopher Carroll, Heather Keens and Holly Ross.
Lights from the airport shine as dusk falls in Rifle, Colorado.
Macías said that she and Chapa had previously thought about the possibility of a bear encounter — they are not unknown in the park, though usually the bears come out more toward dawn or dusk, not midday — and they had come up with a plan.
Common combinations with dusk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- at dusk 63×
- to dusk 12×
- dusk and 11×
- and dusk 11×
- dusk to 10×
- from dusk 9×
- dusk the 7×
- as dusk 7×
- the dusk 7×
- dusk on 7×