How do you use Twilight in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dusky or light, plus the exact meaning.
Twilight meaning
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
Synonyms of Twilight
Using Twilight
- The main meaning on this page is: The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. | The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness. | Any faint light through which something is seen.
- Useful related words include: dusky, light, time of day, hour.
- In the example corpus, twilight often appears in combinations such as: the twilight, twilight zone, twilight of.
Context around Twilight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Twilight
- In this selection, "twilight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nisbet, robert, bibliography, zone, buffy and tone stand out and add context to how "twilight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a translation twilight of the and bibliography twilight zone credits. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "twilight" sits close to words such as antics, commuter and cosmetics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with twilight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Loid Forger, also known as Twilight, is the central character of the series. (13 words)
In " Twilight ", Buffy mysteriously obtains super powers and discovers that Twilight is in fact Angel. (15 words)
Bears often emerge at dawn or twilight rather than in the middle of the day. (15 words)
But writing in his latest Diddly Squat book, Mr Clarkson explains how running a restaurant would be "fun" as he reaches the twilight years of his life - or as he put it "as the clock ticks down to zero". (39 words)
In partnership with The Forum, The Twilight Event, taking place between 4pm and 8.30pm on Friday February 10, is to showcase what the new market venue could offer in the future as part of a major transformation scheme. (39 words)
As much as Wright’s body of work has lived in more comedic waters, it’s a shame he didn’t get a crack at filming — or just participating in the lost Romero film Twilight of the Dead. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Among those who raised these issues were Robert Nisbet (Twilight of Authority), Nisbet, Robert, Twilight of Authority.
Bibliography Twilight Zone credits The following is a list of episodes Beaumont penned for The Twilight Zone (an asterisk indicates that the episode was credited to Beaumont, but ghostwritten by Jerry Sohl ).
In " Twilight ", Buffy mysteriously obtains super powers and discovers that Twilight is in fact Angel.
The acapella jazz group The Manhattan Transfer had a disco hit with the 1979 "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" theme.
The noun røk(k)r means "twilight" (from a verb røkkva "to grow dark"), suggesting a translation "twilight of the gods".
As much as Wright’s body of work has lived in more comedic waters, it’s a shame he didn’t get a crack at filming — or just participating in the lost Romero film Twilight of the Dead.
Bears often emerge at dawn or twilight rather than in the middle of the day.
But writing in his latest Diddly Squat book, Mr Clarkson explains how running a restaurant would be "fun" as he reaches the twilight years of his life - or as he put it "as the clock ticks down to zero".
Charlie Brooker's award-winning sci-fi series Black Mirror is like a new generation’s version of The Twilight Zone (which recently returned to television), but with a modern, technology-driven twist.
Crunchyroll's Spy x Family Season 2, "The Fearsome Luxury Cruise Ship," shows us more rounded versions of both Yor and Twilight.
Fans of both Harry Potter and Twilight have noted that characters like Ginny and Bella changed drastically from the book and were made to be more demure and focused on boys.
Hal Jordan suffered a tragedy that led him to destroy the Green Lantern Corps and become the reality-bending villain Parallax during "Emerald Twilight" (by Ron Marz, Bill Willingham, Fred Haynes, and Darryl Banks).
He reflects: 'I'm in the twilight of my career and very close to retirement.
If you recall, I used “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer as a modern purple prose-style writer.
In partnership with The Forum, The Twilight Event, taking place between 4pm and 8.30pm on Friday February 10, is to showcase what the new market venue could offer in the future as part of a major transformation scheme.
In the morning twilight May 17, the moon will conceal — occult — Jupiter for nearly 30 minutes.
It feels as though we’re entering the Ford Fiesta’s twilight period, with the much-loved supermini set to finish production this year.
It makes sense that there are more than a few cricket-based songs out there, and Harper’s elegiac ode to a player in the twilight of their career stands out.
Josh Peck Recalls That He Was Amazingly “Close” To The Edward Role In ‘Twilight’deadline.
Loid Forger, also known as Twilight, is the central character of the series.
Common combinations with twilight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the twilight 83×
- twilight zone 34×
- twilight of 33×
- twilight years 12×
- and twilight 7×
- twilight is 5×
- as twilight 5×
- of twilight 4×
- twilight payment 4×
- in twilight 3×