You might call it an early night

Usage examples of dusk.

Unless we can wipe them all out before dusk our airfield will be threatened by nightfall.

Next he was on gravel, gaining speed again, spinning up a swirl of dust behind him as he drove on toward the house and barn, their structures now in dusk, the alpenglow abruptly gone, the sun behind the mountains.

Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm?

At dusk he anchored for the night in the tee of one of the larger islands.

Sharpe had made a brief excursion in the dusk and had returned with two clay bottles filled with arrack, and they drank the liquor in the gloom.

That evening, while a dull glow still lingered in the western sky, though the shadows of dusk were fallen on the fort and its surroundings, Major Hester passed the sentry at one of the gates and walked slowly, as though for an aimless stroll, as far as the little French-Canadian church.

By the time everyone was assembled for the long walk down Bekke Farm Road, it was dusk.

Quimbleton, poor bereaved fellow, would sit by me in the dusk and revel with the spirit of his dear comrade.

Ben trooped out at dawn, trooped back again at dusk and never saw Bunion once.

Rafe was out on the terrace, admiring the view in the dusk light and thinking that this place really was a fantasy come true when Isabel emerged from the bure, looking like something out of the Arabian Nights.

If Maisie Traill was to be believed, Albert Caddie could not have murdered Louise Rogers at dusk on Friday the eighth, afterwards driving her car to Basingstoke.

Dusk was deepening into night as a low, sprawling, palisaded building that could only be the caravanserai came into view ahead.

That was an evening of rare beauty, and warm enough already for an early chafer to go blooming in the dusk.

Viviana raged alone among the trees at dusk, bitterness eating out the apple of her heart like codling larvae.

Kearint, a minor tributary of the river Darst, and came to the forty-house town of Havering Slides just as dusk was falling.