What is "semidarkness"

Usage examples of "semidarkness".

Let Bodansky perch in the semidarkness of CIC, giving his orders, making his decisions.

I lay there in the semidarkness for what felt like an eternity, afraid to move, the first moon of the new year filtering through the ivory curtains.

In the semidarkness of the room she made a mental note of the emergency oxygen source, the video monitor that connected them to the bridge, and the shipwide phone.

The streetlights illuminated the edge of the compound, so I could peer through the fence into the semidarkness beyond, looking for anything unusual.

He let Canute lead the way through the semidarkness, away from the fence.

She stared right at Johnston, but the ghillie suit just looked like a clump of something, grass, leaves, or dirt, she couldn't tell in the semidarkness of green light reflecting off the pine trees: There was no man-shape to it, and the outline of the rifle was lost in the clutter well over a hundred meters away from her.

He lay collapsed in semidarkness, eyes blinking grainily, as a deeper texture of his illness languorously revealed itself.

A privacy shield promptly enveloped the cubicle in semidarkness, much as the husher insulated the sound within from the walkway beyond.

The beam brought out, from the semidarkness, the plate metal of the shin guards, the shields protecting the knees, and the trunk that was as smooth and black as the carcass of a whale.

She crept away into the corner behind the curtain, and there on her couch in the semidarkness she lay with strained heart, and a resurging, unconquerable tumult in her mind.

One or two bits of jewelry gleamed in the semidarkness, and a pair of eyeglasses reflected back like tiny headlights.

In her room, she lay in the semidarkness that came when the full moon shone through her window, its orange-yellow light glinting from a row of religious plaques that lined one wall.