twilit

[ twahy-lit ]

adjective

1. lighted by or as by twilight:

   a twilit cathedral.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twilit¹

First recorded in 1865–70; twi(light) + lit ¹

Example Sentences

The majestic white steed in the title piece, “Death of a Rider,” rears up on a twilit beach, letting its rider tumble off like Icarus behind it.

From New York Times

Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.

From Washington Post

In “A Night of Knowing Nothing” by Payal Kapadia, a fictional voice-over narration, chronicling the dissolve of the speaker’s inter-caste relationship, coalesces a series of twilit scenes of college life in India that range from nocturnal revels to protests against an increasingly repressive government.

From New York Times

Soth’s photograph in Wisconsin in 2002 of an illuminated gas pump stand, sited alongside a graveyard and beneath a mountain, could serve as a mordant pendant to Adams’s magnificent, twilit Hopper-esque picture of a similar mountainside facility that bears, with unintentional irony, the advertising banner, “Frontier.”

From New York Times

Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.

From New York Times

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