Dusk
noun
The time of day when daylight is almost gone and evening is coming.
They began to walk home at dusk.
Often appears as...
- at dusk
- till dusk
adjective
Having a dark, subdued or muted color.
She was wearing a dusk blue dress.
Often appears as...
- dusk light
- dusk hour
noun
The time of day when daylight is almost gone and evening is coming.
They began to walk home at dusk.
Often appears as...
- at dusk
- till dusk
adjective
Having a dark, subdued or muted color.
She was wearing a dusk blue dress.
Often appears as...
- dusk light
- dusk hour
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine the sky transitioning from light to dark to grasp 'dusk' effectively.
As the sky turned orange, we realized dusk was upon us.
Pro Tip 2/3Evening Activities
'Dusk' often signifies time for activities like romantic walks or heading home.
We decided to start the campfire at dusk.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Transition
'Dusk' indicates a natural change, not an exact time, and can last minutes to an hour.
Dusk settled slowly, softening the landscape.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine the sky transitioning from light to dark to grasp 'dusk' effectively.
As the sky turned orange, we realized dusk was upon us.
Pro Tip 2/3Evening Activities
'Dusk' often signifies time for activities like romantic walks or heading home.
We decided to start the campfire at dusk.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Transition
'Dusk' indicates a natural change, not an exact time, and can last minutes to an hour.
Dusk settled slowly, softening the landscape.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine the sky transitioning from light to dark to grasp 'dusk' effectively.
As the sky turned orange, we realized dusk was upon us.
Pro Tip 2/3Evening Activities
'Dusk' often signifies time for activities like romantic walks or heading home.
We decided to start the campfire at dusk.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Transition
'Dusk' indicates a natural change, not an exact time, and can last minutes to an hour.
Dusk settled slowly, softening the landscape.
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Video examples
Humboldt Squid Search PIPE...
it's kind of dusk time the sun's going down and then we starting coming closer and closer up to the surface to feed so they're just going to trawl around see if they can pull something in and when they do you'll see our first squid I have so much respect for these fishermen dragging you up squid with just a line a
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Stunning Photos of the...
and I spent over a week in the water, wading waist-deep, 9-hour shifts from dawn until dusk, to get one image that I thought might communicate this. And here's the day that it finally After setting up the platform, I look off and I see a kite coming over the cattails.
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The reality constructed...
opening and as they went along some during them some laughed at them the afternoon had rushed into the dusk as the crowd grew so that they had to breathe outside the day breathing from yesterday's deposit of darkness one gift of whistling from a demon's mouth
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A day in the life of an...
For this tumor there is no treatment, medicine or spell. All the texts give the same do nothing. After delivering the bad news, Peseshet goes outside. She lingers on the steps of the House of Life, admiring the city at dusk. In spite of all her hard work,
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A lesson in turning...
Could he be a potential ally? I never had thought he feels as trapped as the chickens. So we had been sitting there for hours and the midday turned into afternoon, turned into dusk, turned into darkness, and he suddenly said,
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How One Penguin Started...
time at dusk, I think is one of the most fantastic wildlife spectacles I ever seen, because you have penguins everywhere. Absolutely splendid! I like to describe that moment like an epiphany moment and I just knew
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Great White Shark...
Almost one in four of all fatal great white attacks happen here. In other parts of the world, the most dangerous time to enter the water is at dawn or dusk, the times when white sharks typically hunt.
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The Jersey Shore Shark...
Because due in part to this camouflage, sharks often hunt at two particular times of day. DAN Sharks will be more actively hunting during dawn and dusk. As a result, experts the world over advise
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Nature's Mighty Power:...
dusk and dawn in search of good grazing but there's a limit to their range and they must turn around and head back to water before the sun rises life on earth is powered by the sun
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Susan Lim: Transplant...
conflict ranging from extreme sorrow and doubt at dawn to celebratory joy at engrafting the gift of life at dusk. In my team, the lives of one or two of my colleagues
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Humboldt Squid Search PIPE...
it's kind of dusk time the sun's going down and then we starting coming closer and closer up to the surface to feed so they're just going to trawl around see if they can pull something in and when they do you'll see our first squid I have so much respect for these fishermen dragging you up squid with just a line a
Video examples
Stunning Photos of the...
and I spent over a week in the water, wading waist-deep, 9-hour shifts from dawn until dusk, to get one image that I thought might communicate this. And here's the day that it finally After setting up the platform, I look off and I see a kite coming over the cattails.
Video examples
The reality constructed...
opening and as they went along some during them some laughed at them the afternoon had rushed into the dusk as the crowd grew so that they had to breathe outside the day breathing from yesterday's deposit of darkness one gift of whistling from a demon's mouth
Video examples
A day in the life of an...
For this tumor there is no treatment, medicine or spell. All the texts give the same do nothing. After delivering the bad news, Peseshet goes outside. She lingers on the steps of the House of Life, admiring the city at dusk. In spite of all her hard work,
Video examples
A lesson in turning...
Could he be a potential ally? I never had thought he feels as trapped as the chickens. So we had been sitting there for hours and the midday turned into afternoon, turned into dusk, turned into darkness, and he suddenly said,
Video examples
How One Penguin Started...
time at dusk, I think is one of the most fantastic wildlife spectacles I ever seen, because you have penguins everywhere. Absolutely splendid! I like to describe that moment like an epiphany moment and I just knew
Video examples
Great White Shark...
Almost one in four of all fatal great white attacks happen here. In other parts of the world, the most dangerous time to enter the water is at dawn or dusk, the times when white sharks typically hunt.
Video examples
The Jersey Shore Shark...
Because due in part to this camouflage, sharks often hunt at two particular times of day. DAN Sharks will be more actively hunting during dawn and dusk. As a result, experts the world over advise
Video examples
Nature's Mighty Power:...
dusk and dawn in search of good grazing but there's a limit to their range and they must turn around and head back to water before the sun rises life on earth is powered by the sun
Video examples
Susan Lim: Transplant...
conflict ranging from extreme sorrow and doubt at dawn to celebratory joy at engrafting the gift of life at dusk. In my team, the lives of one or two of my colleagues
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Quote examples
Daphne Bavelier
Scientist
People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can make all the difference when driving at dusk, or in fog, in being able, for instance, to see a dog crossing the road in twilight.
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David Attenborough
British Journalist
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
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Kay Granger
American Politician
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
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Emma Thompson
English Actress
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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Haniel Long
American Author
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?
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Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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D. J. Cotrona
American Actor
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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William Arthur Ward
American Writer
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
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Alexandre Desplat
French Composer
I just write from dawn to dusk.
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Daphne Bavelier
Scientist
People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can make all the difference when driving at dusk, or in fog, in being able, for instance, to see a dog crossing the road in twilight.
Quote examples
David Attenborough
British Journalist
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
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Kay Granger
American Politician
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
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Emma Thompson
English Actress
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Quote examples
Haniel Long
American Author
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?
Quote examples
Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Quote examples
D. J. Cotrona
American Actor
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
Quote examples
Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Quote examples
William Arthur Ward
American Writer
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
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Alexandre Desplat
French Composer
I just write from dawn to dusk.
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