How To Use Half-light In A Sentence
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She stood in front of me in the half-light of the bedroom.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
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The definitive upscale society animal: a baggily handsome, cigar-wielding martini aficionado who only seems to exist in the half-light of wittily conceived, beautifully styled cocktail lounges.
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Even in the half-light I can see that the sets are easily head-high.
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She stood in the doorway, looking at the boy, who was lying in the strange half-light of the dawn, then turned and went down the stairs.
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A powerful half-page photo showed gaunt, desperate-looking London dockers queuing at the dock gate in a dim half-light.
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And as the heavens open once again, Travis take to the stage, almost sombre in the evening's half-light.
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In the half-light it was like a scene from The Omen.
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It was deserted but in the half-light I could just make out an object on the grand pinewood table and, moving closer, discerned it to be a small wooden chest with the lid flung open.
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The landscape's detail was reduced to shapes in half-light, but the child was still speaking with all the insistence a four-year-old possesses, reiterating that demand.
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I could only think of the wretched cows swaying along in queasy, jolting half-light, then suddenly a lurch and a terrific violence as the world turned upside down.
Bird Cloud
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It's marked by a tender, fragile, carefully contained beauty, strung together like dewdrops on a spiderweb in the dusky half-light the title suggests.
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And then deliberately the whole universe turned faintly gray, and the smaller stars faded in the lucence of dawn, and the brief, weird world of half-light came into being.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde
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When the rain gentled, it was like softly flowing tears that seemed to be steaming in the half-light, falling on dimly glowing skin and turning to nothing more than morning mist.
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Ovid's delightful short poem about a rendezvous with the imaginary ‘Corinna’ in the evocative half-light of the afternoon has inspired many poets.
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At the top of the stairwell were two great wooden doors, possibly with some sort of carving on them, though it was hard to see in the dim half-light cast by the torches, which hung in brackets along the walls.
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These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
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In the half-light his mind tricks would work more effectively, since the dusk was conducive to belief more than was high noon.
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Her face looked puffy and tear-stained but I couldn't really be sure in the half-light.
THE EXECUTION
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It was impossible to see far in the soft sleet, the half-light.
BEHINDLINGS
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The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.
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Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings.
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The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks; the wood doubled over the prestissimo riffs, the wood enjoying the sea's sport.
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE
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Something thudded softly against the prow of our boat as we pulled upstream, and in the half-light before dawn it was difficult to tell what it was.
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The sun was setting, so only the half-light of dusk illuminated the clearing.
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Turn-of-the-last-decade indie-disco par excellence; you can almost see the Robert Smith hairdos bobbing along in the half-light.
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The sun had vanished and dusk had taken over the countryside, casting villages, fields and woods in eerie purple half-light.
LOST SUMMER
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In northern climates in the winter before the twentieth century people lived between the nocturnal dark and a dismal grey half-light which they called daylight, not seeing the sun often for weeks together.
The Shape of Things to Come
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The underground chamber is actually a large cave, half-light reflecting off a channel of water in the centre of the cave.
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Yet still, read aloud, to an undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in silence, by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story.
The Tapestried Chamber
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I made my play and sat back, watching him in the half-light.
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Creative theatrical effect helped the presentation as each artist emerged from the gloom of a darkened stage to be lit in the ghostly half-light, and to the warm enthusiastic reception from the patrons.
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In the dim half-light of evening, I was unable to tell whether it was Mary or her sister.
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In the dim half-light of evening, I was unable to tell whether it was Mary or her sister.
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Oaxaca the sun had set just a few hours ago and the city was cloaked in the blue half-light of dusk.
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He smiled, and though his eyes had been replaced long ago by visual sensors that glowed dimly red in the half-light, I imagined that I could yet detect a spark of that charismatic man who had won the hearts of thousands even as he brought about their destruction.
Lo, a fic. « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Jess could just see his gestures in the half-light coming from her uncurtained windows.
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In the dim half-light of evening, I was unable to tell whether it was Mary or her sister.
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The quest brings her back to a dilapidated cabin in Dawson's North End; down river to cook at a tourist camp, or out on the river to play her camera on a fishing operation in the half-light of a Dawson summer night.
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They pass the time in a hazy half-light, drifting from one ill-defined moment to the next in works deeply suspicious of form and language.
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The sun had vanished and dusk had taken over the countryside, casting villages, fields and woods in eerie purple half-light.
LOST SUMMER
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It was the grey half-light before dawn and Astaevia could only just see where she was going.
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I tiptoed back to my rooms in the misty half-light and prepared for bed as the town began to stir.
Exit the Actress
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In the half-light from the single landing bulb, he took what seemed to Constance an age to open it.
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But when I am alone in the half-light of the canyon. All existence seems to fade to a being with my soul and memories.
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Many watercolour papers have granular surfaces which help provide variations of light and half-light.
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It's not especially easy to set up a 15 ft match rod in the dark, especially when your eyes refuse either to focus in half-light, or at distances closer than 2 feet.
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I stood in the half-light of the glowing canopy of stars, mesmerized.
Night and the spell that gave me peace
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In the gloom of the van's interior she appeared somehow different, the dim half-light having softened her features considerably.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds.
Wildwood
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These countries, even though they may have armies which can be packed into one parade ground, give many medals and ribbons, not to speak of stars, to junior officers, so that even in half-light, they glitter.
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Throughout a close-up that stays with Edmund for a painful duration of seconds, his face, cast in half-light, looks older, harder and hollower.
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Chris followed Frad out into the half-light of the warehouse, which seemed brilliant after the stuffy inkiness of the hole, and thence into the intolerable brilliance of late-afternoon sunlight.
Cities In Flight
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The boy is sitting above him, the tip of his cigarette flickering amber in the half-light, exhaling softly in clouds of white smoke(sentence dictionary), a strangely comforting presence.
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In the half-light in a crucial ward in Orpington they delivered ‘Good Morning!’
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In the half-light his face was as still as a wax mannequins, his eyes unblinking, his expression stony.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection
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It wasn't yet dawn, and the forest was filled with mist and gray-blue light; crepuscle, the mysterious half-light that comes at both ends of the day, when the small secret things come out to feed.
Drums of Autumn
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In the half-light it is dull and beige - hardly the stuff of postcards - but by the end of my run, much of it will be gleaming yellow in the early morning sun.
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The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings!
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If you've ever woken up in a state of fear and dread in the half-light hour before sunrise, then you know what depression is.
Andrew Solomon - An interview with author
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In the half-light from the single landing bulb, he took what seemed to Constance an age to open it.
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These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
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This permits easier acquisition of the sight in daylight, half-light and low-light conditions.
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We lay there in the half-light and the quiet, breathing.
Shortcut Man
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The counselor spoke her name, and she looked up, her eyes red in the half-light.
