dusky
adjective
somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
duskily
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a word derived from
dusky.
Example Sentences
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Peterson’s production — duskily lighted by Peter Maradudin on a quickly metamorphosing set by Myung Hee Cho and featuring a coordinated ensemble that grasps the feeling underlying the drama — has a discreet efficiency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
The Cajun men in undershirts cluster around Duke as he moves across a duskily lit softball field, praising his courage.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when all care is ended, when night is duskily stealing over the earth, he and his bride will sit down alone in their cottage door, in the red light of the western clouds.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
He found himself in a long and rather narrow room, with a high ceiling, duskily lighted by three wide windows that were thickly webbed and dusted, like ancestral bottles of fine crusty Port.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
At last, in fifteen or twenty minutes—certainly less than half an hour—the mad pace was slowed as the destination hove duskily into sight.
From Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish
