noun
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A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
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A darkish colour.
verb
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To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
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To make dusk.
adjective
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Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Examples of dusk in a Sentence
The sun had set, and dusk settled over the ocean.
Dusk came and went.
The magic is at its strongest between dusk and midnight.
It was past dusk, and bonfires were springing up down the beach.
Dusk had fallen while she tested the magic and her ability to control it.
It was near dusk, with the sky growing dark in the distance.
Dusk had fallen, and the roar of guns died away.
The balmy spring air was warm, even after dusk fell.
Dusk had caused shadows to darken the forest.
Dusk crept up the canyon as he slowed his pace, searching for a sign in the gathering darkness below.
At dusk the martyrs' remains were collected in a cart and thrown into the Arno.
It wasn't until dusk, when Evelyn had said she'd come back, that she forced herself up.
Dean tried to isolate the sound, looking frantically in all downward directions, trying to see a trace, a telltale puff of smoke in the gathering dusk.
It was already growing dusk when Denisov, Petya, and the esaul rode up to the watchhouse.
She wrapped her arms around her knees and stared into the dusk.
Jackals are nocturnal animals, concealing themselves until dusk in woody jungles and other natural lurking places, and then sallying forth in packs, which sometimes number two hundred individuals, and visiting farmyards, villages and towns in search of food.
Dusk took away much of the intolerable heat, and a stiff breeze dried her sweat.
At last the van came, when it was just growing dusk.
Growing anxious, she turned her attention to the sound of the stream Elise had told her to follow if she didn't make it there by dusk.
He joined Lean and Allin as they dined, listening with forced indifference as they told him that Rissa had left alone with her guard at dusk.
Boat trip out onto Lake Mburo and brief (but successful) search for red-faced barbet before heading to Bwindi - arriving at dusk.
It was growing dusk.
At dusk a message came from Di Robilant that he was sending up a brigade of the VI.
And finally, as dusk fell, to Tyne Cot, the biggest commonwealth cemetery in the World.
The birds were a bit hard to come by there, because it was mid-afternoon, but the activity picked up considerably nearer dusk.
Captain's Wood is open dawn ' til dusk throughout the year.
Far off in the gathering dusk the dinner bell began to sound its regular, mournful note.
Even a body without a heart Can feel this sad beauty; Snipe take wing from the marsh In the autumn dusk.
This is where one can sit at dusk with a glass of wine and feel mellow.
It was getting dusk when Prince Andrew and Pierre drove up to the front entrance of the house at Bald Hills.
Toward dusk the cannonade began to subside.
The lights for the skateboard park should be on from dusk to 10.00pm.
If you are shooting outdoors, make sure you shoot at dawn or dusk when the light is the softest.
To prevent mosquito bites, it pays to cover up whenever outdoors between dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are the most active.
On the evening of that day Christian summoned his captains to a private conference at the palace, the result of which was quickly apparent, for at dusk a band of Danish soldiers, with lanterns and torches, broke into the great hall and carried off several carefully selected persons.
Not only that, the local arboretum where I like to play is closed every evening at 5 instead of staying open till dusk.
In winter codling can be caught at high water near the steps at dusk.
They are generally crepuscular (most active at dusk and dawn) and nocturnal.
Ideal for flying on dark ' muggy ' winter days or as it gets dusk - you see things MUCH BETTER in the gloom!
We first meet them out in the summer dusk on the edge of Haw Bank searching the high field, for what?
As it was virtually dusk the sound became slightly eerie in this light.
In flight at dusk yesterday evening at Chick Hill.
After returning to the hotel I took a last turn around the gardens for an hour before dusk in the hope of finding flycatchers.
Our main interest was to see sandgrouse but we enjoyed the general birding as we waited for dusk to fall.
At dusk they shall smell the fragrance of flowers.
As a result with the sky clearing near dusk there was heavy hoarfrost.
They are often seen flying together at dusk to reach communal roosts to spend the night.
It was empty as dusk descended on the costly glass skyscrapers.
Fog and mist until 10.00 hours, considerable cloud at 3,000 feet with patchy stratus near surface to 11.00 hours, reforming after dusk.
Combine a guided trip with a hunt for spectral tarsier at dusk for value for money.