How to Use crepuscular in a Sentence

crepuscular

adjective

• This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
• He’s after a crepuscular world where the creepy creatures of the night are just coming out.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Mar. 2020
• Those are called crepuscular rays - one of my all-time favorite terms.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2012
• That is only one of the questions that hover in the humid, crepuscular air.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Under plans proposed for the Utah parks, tour groups can forget about flying over Bryce when the hoodoos are bathed in the crepuscular glow of dusk or dawn.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
• Even if there are shadows of danger in the slow, crepuscular central section, the atmosphere is one of white nights in Leningrad, of brightness in the dark.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2020
• The animals are crepuscular, tending to be most active at dawn and dusk as well as after dark.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2017
• The crepuscular lighting was a prelude to Pugh’s raucous after-party in the same venue later that night.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2018
• The rabbits are crepuscular—most active in early morning and at dusk.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• The rooms are small and claustrophobic, sometimes crepuscular, and the flow awkward.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• And, as the Nixon story shows, Hoover’s crepuscular hold over Presidents was tenacious.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• In fact, all versions of the game include a variety of visual toggles, including Sun flares, heat hazes, screen dirt, and crepuscular rays.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
• Lighting by Michael Boll is penitentiary bright by day and crepuscular at night.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Image The lighting, uncredited, is crepuscular, outlining the strange forms that slither, shiver and creep in from the wings.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The combination of the color of the coat, the isolation of the girl and the crepuscular woods brings to mind Little Red Riding Hood, an association that settles in your mind like an unformed thought.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• There is more twilight than frenzy in these crepuscular chapters.
  — James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• The shipyard was still for the day, and only the occasional police helicopter overhead broke the lush crepuscular silence.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
• Many creatures are crepuscular — most active at dusk and dawn — including some species of butterflies, bees, deer, rabbits, even house cats.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• Tour by van into sections of the forest where crepuscular and nocturnal creatures are most active.
  — The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2017
• His color palettes, which can range from brilliant orange and blue to crepuscular pinks and purples, seem to evoke land, sky and light in its myriad reflective and refractive states.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• The wolf ignites a crepuscular uncertainty about what’s fact and what’s fable, about how to differentiate between bared teeth and lolling tongue.
  — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• These stony shelters are called by many different names, like rock shelters, rockhouses, crepuscular caves and bluff shelters.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• With the crepuscular light dissipating with tropical swiftness, about to add darkness to the dripping damp, Saleska and Silva Campos took stock.
  — Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2017
• The presence of god rays (or crepuscular rays, to use a more technical and less religious term) in virtual reality is an artifact from the use of Fresnel lenses in most headsets.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2022
• But the crepuscular look extends to daytime exteriors, with their watery, reduced light.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
• Into the crepuscular realm of social media, for example.
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Yet Sebald also published crepuscular poems and prose in the student newspaper.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• Of those species that are not fully nocturnal, a large number are crepuscular, a word that has exactly the right sound to describe the creeping and partially hidden character of activity that takes place at twilight.
  — Christopher Preston, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
• Its Grand Guignol flourishes were attention-grabbing, yes, but what knocked some of us out was Fincher’s visual style, with its crepuscular lighting, immaculate staging and tableaus.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• Three exquisite crepuscular prints of the Flatiron Building, by Edward Steichen, from 1904, heralded that breakthrough.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024