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Example sentences for "twilit"

Lexicographically close words:
twiggy; twigs; twil; twilight; twilights; twill; twilled; twin; twinckling; twine
  1. Uplands, where the harvesters Pause in the swathe, shading their eyes, to watch Or barge or schooner stealing up from sea: Themselves in twilight, she a twilit ghost Parting the twilit woods.

  2. Her mind was like Cannon Street Station--a dreadful twilit terminus into which all the horror and misery of Belgium poured and was congested.

  3. Duco's forehead clouded over; but the prince did not perceive it, in the twilit studio.

  4. Her thought had wandered to that grim, dark future when the twilit forests would close about her, and the strong tones of this man's voice would never again be able to reach her.

  5. The man stood just within the shelter of the twilit forests.

  6. She stood looking after the girl as she went out into the twilit street.

  7. I ain't skeered ef Honey'll go with me," returned the boy doubtfully, as he interrogated the twilit spaces beyond the open cabin door.

  8. George Gilbert did not particularly care whether or not there was any tea to be procured at Camberwell, but he looked forward with a faint thrill of pleasure to the thought of a stroll with Isabel in the twilit garden.

  9. And then he walked to the window and looked out into the twilit garden, above which the faint summer moon had newly arisen.

  10. There was a sharp report followed by a swift rush of scampering hoofs amongst the brittle pine cones and needles which carpeted the twilit woods.

  11. As night came on Elvine remained alone in her twilit bedroom.

  12. After that, as the twilit woods were swallowed up in the darkness of night, Audie vanished into the tent, and was seen no more.

  13. The Indian turned slowly round and stared out into the twilit woods.

  14. But it soon gained impetus, and the twilit shadows of the primordial forest quickly swallowed it up.

  15. The girls walked silently down the red, twilit road.

  16. In the chilly twilit kitchen the green-lined silver-basket lay on the table in front of the window, placed there by a thoughtful and conscientious Mrs. Tams.

  17. His only memories of his mother, who had died so young, were of an angelic being in a long white gown, who stood in the twilit doorway of his bedroom.

  18. The twilit beach was empty and the waves had grown less.

  19. Our way lies through great, empty, pillared halls which curve above us like twilit cathedrals.

  20. I sought her amid the tobacco smoke and the cheap applause of popular assemblies and on the vanity fair of the professional social patron; in the brilliance of glittering feasts I sought her and in the twilit silence of domestic comfort.

  21. The sound is like a bell," a far, faery chime in a twilit forest.

  22. But we must beware of each step in these twilit recesses, for the fays of Brittany are not as those of other lands.

  23. White thro' the heath and the swart fir woods White 'neath the twilit skies.

  24. He has the same twilit atmosphere, peopled with elusive dream-footed figures, that make no more noise than the wings of an owl.

  25. It is a poem in the metre and manner of Gray, with the same silver tones of twilit peace--heartrending by contrast with the Continental scene.

  26. O burning galaxy of buttercups, And drone of bees above the pouting rose,-- O twilit lovers stilled with reverie And footprints of them swerving on the sand And darkness of them clasped against the sky!

  27. Not sad my season of the red And russet orchards gaily spread From Cholesbury to Cooming, Nor sad when twilit valley trees Are ships becalmed on misty seas, And beetles go abooming.

  28. So in this twilit world of yours do we of Audela appear to be but men and women.

  29. The twilit brown and yellow trees were still as paintings.

  30. At Moyne, too, dinner has come to an end, and, tempted by the beauty of the quiet evening, the two old ladies and the children have strolled into the twilit garden.

  31. As the old horses jog steadily along the twilit road, they converse in quite a lively fashion of all they have heard and noticed, and laugh demurely over many a small joke.

  32. Not Illar, but Thag himself had warped the walls of space to enfold the twilit world, and nothing but Thag's living power could have held it so bent to segregate the little, terror-ridden land inviolate.

  33. She laughed then, sweetly and scornfully, a laugh that echoed uneasily in his mind long after the sound of it had died upon the twilit air.

  34. She shone with a burning clarity, the only vivid thing in the whole twilit world.

  35. And when the baying of the remotest dragon had faintly joined in the tumult, a window opened far up among the clouds below the twilit gables, and a woman screamed, and far away in Hell her father heard her and knew that her doom was come.

  36. They would have been left to wander like disconsolate little ghosts through that lonely and twilit No-Man's Land of barren love and unwanted babes.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twilit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.