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Fool hems in one inexperienced driver in the half-dark
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twilit
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the twilit gray of the sea EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He hurried into the deserted twilit street, ignoring the twinge in his knee. ▪ I kept looking at my watch as we drew through twilit streets. ▪ Outside the open kitchen ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (en-simple past of: twilight ) vb. (en-simple past of: twilight ) Etymology 2 illuminate by or as if by twilight. alt. (past participle of twilight English) v (past participle of twilight English)
Usage examples of twilit.
What meeter place could there be for dreaming than the twilit banks of Tweed?
The seas still swarmed with serpentine monsters of the saurian type, and the firmer lands were peopled by huge animals, mastodons, bears, giant tapirs, mylodons, deinotheriums, and a score of other species too strange for them to recognise by any Earthly likeness, which roamed in great herds through the vast twilit forests and over boundless plains covered with grey-blue vegetation.
Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.
Shards of memory remain: a flash of swords in a twilit alleyway in the remilitarized zone.
After zigging through a bombproof furlong of roof, he was dropping into a large twilit cave.
Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.
It was gray cold and dead from horizon to horizon under the gray dead clouds-not the soft comfortable gray of twilit illusions, of unstark colors blurring like consolation or complacency into each other, but rather the gray of disconsolation and dismay, paradoxically dull and raw, numb and poignant, a gray like the ashen remains of color and sap and blood and bone.
Night at Athena Station, the corridors a twilit gloom, a modern fairytale setting: Gonzales the quester, transformed by the half-gravity, wandered through the gently curving passages seeking an uncertain object.
Not Hoffman nor Huysmans could conceive a scene more wildly incredible, more frenetically repellent, or more Gothically grotesque than the than the twilit grotto through which we seven staggered.
Not Hoffman nor Huysmans could conceive a scene more wildly incredible, more frenetically repellent, or more Gothically grotesque than the twilit grotto through which we seven staggered.
Yet to look at him now, in the twilit living room, gliding like a large bird in an updraft toward the sweating shakerful of booze, smiling out of his fat vortex ring's centre, you'd think all was flat calm, gold, serene.
She felt as if she were floating upward, far above the dark branches of the forest, up into the gray twilit skies toward the great expanse of white ice.
The blood-red nearer sun imparted a purplish cast to the afternoon sky, while the icy-white primary -- too distant to add much heat or light -- hovered like an illuminated hole in the twilit heavens.