sunsetting

/ (ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ) /

noun

mainly US and Canadian the act or an instance of applying a sunset clause

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Words nearby sunsetting

sunseeker, sunset, sunset clause, sunset law, sunset state, sunsetting, sunshade, sunshine, sunshine law, sunshine state, sunsick

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Example sentences from the Web for sunsetting

But the Federal Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit is in danger of sunsetting at the end of this year.
Mitt Romney's Iowa Problem|Daniel Gross|November 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
No matter what the anguish that it cost thee, from sunrise to sunsetting thou hast held Despair at bay.
The Jester's Sword|Annie Fellows Johnston
Bum-boats selling goods before sunrising and after sunsetting are very hardly dealt with.
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.|Anonymous
She lighted a lamp, got the almanac, and hunted out the exact time of sunsetting.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906|Lucy Maud Montgomery

Being at Blarehead baptising the shepherds child, I came off at sunsetting, or a very little after.
Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland|J. Maxwell Wood
And they rode all that day, and about the time of the sunsetting came to the side of a lake, where was a great dun.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI|Robert Louis Stevenson

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