nightscape
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The show’s title painting, oddly, verges on the cloying with its prairie dogs popping up in a moonlit nightscape.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2016
With that closing, Washington’s nightscape became more barren.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015
At every moment, her pale skin glows and her dilated pupils flit over the nightscape in serene rapture.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014
Look around the corner, however, and a 20th century Surrealist painting —Remedios Varo’s magical nightscape, “Portrait of Dr. Ignacio Chavez,” from 1957 — comes into view.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2011
There is a short street in Walworth Road—East Street—which is as perfect as any nightscape ever conceived by any artist.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
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