What's the difference between gloaming and sundown?

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.

Sundown


Definition:

  • (n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.
  • (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pattern of correlations indicated that both rate of cognitive decline and initial sundowning behavior were significantly correlated with initial perceived caregiver stress.
  • (2) Disturbances of sleep and the sleep-wake rhythm are a common clinical observation in AD, as is "sundowning," the onset or exacerbation of delirium during the evening or night.
  • (3) Among the 89 subjects, 11 were found to be sundowners, a prevalence rate of one in eight in the facility.
  • (4) This began to change later in the 1880s – George Henry's Sundown or River Landscape by Moonlight (1887) takes Monet's Impression of 15 years before and transfers it from Le Havre to the Clyde.
  • (5) A celebratory rally had been planned to take place outside the palace after sundown.
  • (6) Numerous theories have been advanced in attempting to account for sundowning.
  • (7) All patients had sundowning behavior and sleep disturbances.
  • (8) Further, we describe the prevalence, possible causes, and treatment of sundowning.
  • (9) Hundreds gathered on Friday at sundown for a peaceful prayer vigil and march.
  • (10) Lost in the pleasant absorption of that silence,” Novo recounts, “of the panorama of rooftops sprinkled here and there with the yellowing treetops at sundown,” he suddenly felt Emilio approaching from behind.
  • (11) There’s always a swimsuit in the boot of the car and people are always planning where to go for sundowners.
  • (12) The Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder took aim from more than 70 yards and the ball sailed over N’dy Assembé’s head into the net without touching the ground for his third international goal.
  • (13) This association may be specific to sundowning behavior because there was no relation between the rate of change of perceived stress and morning agitation.
  • (14) Kral and Wolanin and Phillips have argued for a more psychogenic account, by stating that psychosocial stressors may, in concert with impaired cognitive functioning, account for sundowning.
  • (15) Muslim Brotherhood sources said more surprise marches were likely after sundown on Tuesday night.
  • (16) Among physiologic factors, odor of urine, being awakened frequently on the evening shift, and fewer medical diagnoses were significantly associated with sundowning.
  • (17) And no one would dare say that they would cut the water of Egypt," said Abdel Arabi, 39, who sat on a tour boat watching sundown's rays glint off the Nile as birds swooped in for the evening's final catch.
  • (18) To investigate the relations among the initial perceived stress of Alzheimer patients' caregivers, the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behaviors, and patients' rate of cognitive decline.
  • (19) Caregivers' initial perceived stress and the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behavior, and rate of cognitive decline.
  • (20) Infections obtained in sentinel larvae placed in the ponds for 3 hr intervals indicated that C. punctatus infected larvae around sundown.

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