Examples of half-light in a Sentence
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Start with a stripe down the middle, then mow in a figure eight to get that half-dark, half-light tuxedo look, or, my preferred method, loop around like a Zamboni until you're done.
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CBS News,
1 May 2026
Antarctica in mid-winter is bathed in a dusky half-light or shrouded in darkness, with the sun's orbit ensuring the warming rays no longer reach the icy landmass.
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Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
The play has a beautiful opening, in which a singer played by Georgia Heers appears in a hazy cone of half-light behind a golden curtain.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun.
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Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 May 2024
The courtyard of the Four Seasons Washington DC is hot in the late July half-light.
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Nick Remsen,
Vogue,
23 Aug. 2023
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CBS News,
1 May 2026
Antarctica in mid-winter is bathed in a dusky half-light or shrouded in darkness, with the sun's orbit ensuring the warming rays no longer reach the icy landmass.
—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
The play has a beautiful opening, in which a singer played by Georgia Heers appears in a hazy cone of half-light behind a golden curtain.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun.
—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 May 2024
The courtyard of the Four Seasons Washington DC is hot in the late July half-light.
—
Nick Remsen,
Vogue,
23 Aug. 2023
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“Half-light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half-light. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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