twilit
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of twilit
First recorded in 1865–70; twi(light) + lit 1
Example Sentences
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Moving through it feels uncannily like entering one of his moody, twilit paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The second, audible less frequently until 1990’s “Vineland,” sounds looser, freer, warmer, more improvisational, more curious about love and family, increasingly wistful, all but twilit with rue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
It was a twilit space in which my thoughts moved like half-remembered dreams.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
No one in Camp Stroke, of course, foresaw the atypical, twilit times into which this album would arrive.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2020
Alice came up the twilit trail with a basket of sweet wild strawberries from Mrs. Strawberry’s field.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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