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sunset

Definition for sunset

noun as in fall of sun below horizon

Strongest matches

dusk, nightfall, sundown, twilight

Strong matches

eve, evening, eventide, gloaming

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Example Sentences

We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.

“We shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.

But in 2013, the Van Gogh Museum finally overcame its reservations and authenticated Sunset at Montmajour.

“On the whole I kind of quite like my films without watching them every night like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard,” he said.

“One club I worked at, Sunset Strip, they caught a 15-year-old girl trying to audition,” Sharky recalled.

In dry weather, they are now to be watered with lukewarm water softly showered upon them, between sunset and twilight.

Every evening, at sunset, the gates were closed, and during the night no one was allowed to pass through in either direction.

The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.

He heard himself speaking in an even tone about the view, the river, the gold of the coming sunset.

"I tell you," he said, and turned his head to look wistfully up at the eastern coulée-rim, all tinted with the blazing sunset.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sunset, such as: dusk, nightfall, sundown, twilight, eve, and evening.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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