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twilight

(= fall) the time of day immediately following sunset he loved the twilight they finished before the fall of night the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth a condition of decline following successes in the twilight of the empire (= dusky, twilit) lighted by or as if by twilight The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn — Henry Fielding the twilight glow of the sky a boat on a twilit river

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Simple sentences

We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.
They arrived at twilight.
I love twilight.
Tom's blinks became longer and longer as he entered the twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep.
Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.
There was eternal twilight in the place.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
At twilight, snow looks blue.
At twilight, snow looks deep blue.

Movie subtitles

Twilight, yes.
A song my mother once sang to me long, long ago, rocking me to sleep as she sang in the twilight.
Twilight.
Oh, the lazy days. the warm, still, country twilight. the high, soft Negro laughter from the quarters. the golden warmth and security of those days.
Don't ever shave it off, Mr. Twilight, somebody might think you were alive.
Just you and I, alone in the waning twilight.
We were going to enjoy the waning twilight.
The twilight of the pyramids are right.
And in the elegant melancholy of twilight, as the candles flutter and make your eyes dance, he will tell you he loves you.
In the twilight he will tell you he loves you.
And in the elegant melancholy of twilight, he will tell you he loves you.
Add their clouds and dust, it amounts to no more than our twilight.
A strange twilight world opened up before me, and I felt as the first man to set foot on another planet, an intruder in this mystic garden of the deep.
We live in the twilight of our world, Horemheb.
Danced together in the winter twilight?
Oh, the lazy days the warm, still, country twilight the high, soft Negro laughter from the quarters the golden warmth and security of those days.
The twilight's beautiful.
A strange twilight world opened up before me and I felt as the first man to set foot on another planet, an intruder in this mystic garden of the deep.
Sidney lives so much in moral twilight, that when I said you were coming here, he predicted disaster.
She made a call from the Twilight Room and came right back here.
No, you were at the Twilight Room.
Three things are the diapason of this town: The cathedral bells, The seminarists walking in the promenade in groups of three at twilight, and walking through Main Street.
What is this twilight. this half-world of the mind that you profess to know so much about?
Twilight's beginning. but with it comes understanding. that lights the way like a dark lantern. and keeps you from going astray.
Yet still when the blazing sun hangs low. when the wind dies away and the sea foam sleeps. and twilight touches the wandering earth. I turn home.
Her life is only beginning, mine is at twilight.
Well, yes. There's the twilight bark.
The twilight bark?
Now it's up to us dogs and the twilight bark.
It's hard to say. It's like twilight.
Tonight a presentation so special and unique, that for the first time in the five years we've been presenting The Twilight Zone, we're offering a film shot in France by others.

News and current affairs

India's political boldness in seeking peace with Pakistan in their half-century twilight struggle for Kashmir may soon be matched by economic moves equally as daring.
These are difficult days for NATO, as Gates, in the twilight of his illustrious tenure, has pointed out.
The Berlusconi era is approaching its twilight, yet his sun is unwilling to set.
As NATO enters its twilight years, the US should encourage the EU to grow into its global responsibilities.
The presidency of the EU would mark the twilight of her career.
And it is the French, the avatars of Enlightenment and the Rights of Man, who have stepped in to provide a patina of legitimacy to his political twilight.
The world must get used to a twilight security environment of sudden and peripheral emergencies.
As a result, a subjective twilight is lowering over the European project. That is tragic, because many unique and even historic opportunities are not being seized.
Moreover, Robinson, born in 1944, is a twentieth-century person. The presidency of the EU would mark the twilight of her career.
The first option may not be feasible for very much longer in the twilight days of Pax America.
Twilight of the Chancellor?
North Korea, always the least predictable of totalitarian communist states, remains in a twilight world.
As a result, a subjective twilight is lowering over the European project.

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