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Gloam


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
  • (v. i.) To be sullen or morose.
  • (n.) The twilight; gloaming.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
  • (2) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
  • (3) I’d arrived a bit late for its golden age (my adventures in the medium took place somewhere between sunset and the gloaming of that particular period), but it was enjoyable enough.
  • (4) I can just see him in the gloaming, sat in his make-believe producer's chair, fantasising about presiding over a set of Hollywood stars at his beck and call.
  • (5) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
  • (6) Out walking after dinner, I stumbled across a group of around 100 women who, in the gloaming, filled a square with exquisitely choreographed dancing, arms making great sweeps of the sky, moving as one, like a flock of murmurating birds.
  • (7) You're struck by their ability to shift their sound completely between songs – from the crushing bass-heavy riff of Myxamatosis to These Are My Twisted Words's spindly, thin, cyclical guitars to the unsettling electronic abstraction of The Gloaming.
  • (8) No sudden appearances from David Starkey, looming out of the historical gloaming like the ghost of a cantankerous 1930s dinner lady.
  • (9) For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.
  • (10) Updated at 1.38am BST 1.21am BST Wandering the town 12.59am BST This is the gloaming We've entered the American "witching hour", the time between work and everything else.
  • (11) While David retreats into an ever-deepening huff ("Nothing makes me happy these days"), relentlessly perky overspender Jackie stumbles through the financial gloaming like a woman who has been hit over the head with a dollar-shaped frying pan.
  • (12) I always feel strongly that line in The Gloaming: 'You are murderers – we are not the same as you'.
  • (13) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
  • (14) The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening.
  • (15) A few years after the boycott it was snowing outside the Royal Albert Hall for an evening tournament in December and Pilic emerged from the picturesque car-park gloaming in a great long leather coat and carrying his rackets like rifles.

Gloaming


Definition:

  • (n.) Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
  • (n.) Sullenness; melancholy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
  • (2) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
  • (3) I’d arrived a bit late for its golden age (my adventures in the medium took place somewhere between sunset and the gloaming of that particular period), but it was enjoyable enough.
  • (4) I can just see him in the gloaming, sat in his make-believe producer's chair, fantasising about presiding over a set of Hollywood stars at his beck and call.
  • (5) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
  • (6) Out walking after dinner, I stumbled across a group of around 100 women who, in the gloaming, filled a square with exquisitely choreographed dancing, arms making great sweeps of the sky, moving as one, like a flock of murmurating birds.
  • (7) You're struck by their ability to shift their sound completely between songs – from the crushing bass-heavy riff of Myxamatosis to These Are My Twisted Words's spindly, thin, cyclical guitars to the unsettling electronic abstraction of The Gloaming.
  • (8) No sudden appearances from David Starkey, looming out of the historical gloaming like the ghost of a cantankerous 1930s dinner lady.
  • (9) For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.
  • (10) Updated at 1.38am BST 1.21am BST Wandering the town 12.59am BST This is the gloaming We've entered the American "witching hour", the time between work and everything else.
  • (11) While David retreats into an ever-deepening huff ("Nothing makes me happy these days"), relentlessly perky overspender Jackie stumbles through the financial gloaming like a woman who has been hit over the head with a dollar-shaped frying pan.
  • (12) I always feel strongly that line in The Gloaming: 'You are murderers – we are not the same as you'.
  • (13) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
  • (14) The Champs Élysées in the gloaming: a dream venue for a romantic evening.
  • (15) A few years after the boycott it was snowing outside the Royal Albert Hall for an evening tournament in December and Pilic emerged from the picturesque car-park gloaming in a great long leather coat and carrying his rackets like rifles.

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