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    Use "gloaming" in a sentence

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    gloaming


    1. Now the gloaming was electric with tension and worry, for news of the empty fishing boats had spread by word of mouth to every last living soul in the great metropolis


    2. Some of them carried lanterns that flickered in the gloaming


    3. The bride who was given away by her father, the M'Conifer of the Glands, looked exquisitely charming in a creation carried out in green mercerised silk, moulded on an underslip of gloaming grey, sashed with a yoke of broad emerald and finished with a triple flounce of darkerhued fringe, the scheme being relieved by bretelles and hip insertions of acorn bronze


    4. In the gloaming to the east, he can make out a gray line of traffic herded between the edges of the road


    5. Then the bows of three boats began to materialize out of the gloaming, just beyond the railroad bridge


    6. Honest Marion Sapples worked like a Trojan to the gloaming, but the light latheron never came back; at last, seeing no other help for it, she got one of the other women at the washing-house to go to Mrs Girdwood and to let her know what had happened, and how the best part of the washing would, unless help was sent, be obliged to lie out all night


    7. Their gloaming hair was twined with flowers; green and white gems glinted on their collars and their belts; and their faces and their songs were filled with mirth


    8. They dwelt most often by the edges of the woods, from which they could escape at times to hunt, or to ride and run over the open lands by moonlight or starlight; and after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk


    9. As we stood in the gloaming in this fairy glen, I noticed the same pinkish glow that I’d sometimes seen emanating from Kathleen now shining faintly around this child


    10. He had been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about the streets in the gloaming

    11. While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance


    12. " Many a lamp awaits the gloaming, and brightens the faces of a miserable crowd vanquished by the immortal illness and the sin of ages, of men by the sides of their puny accomplices pregnant with the miserable fruit with which the world will perish


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    Synonyms for "gloaming"

    crepuscle crepuscule dusk evenfall fall gloam gloaming nightfall twilight

    "gloaming" definitions

    the time of day immediately following sunset