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How to use gloaming in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gloaming? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
Small numbers of red deer are also here, especially in the gloaming, grazing high among the pines.
It's the gloaming twilight of it, the soft seduction of lost hopes, the valiant wit, the heroic jig.
To his left, in the gloaming, was a man staring straight at the crowd like a secret serviceman looking for assassins.
Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground.
But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 yards away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop.
But that great-come-and-get-it day-is still shimmering in the mists of the gloaming.
As the light faded, a couple of younger prospects emerged with luminous promise in the gloaming.
And yesterday Ruby Walsh appeared in the gloaming at Leopardstown, riding over racecourse fences for the first time since breaking a leg at Down Royal in November.
When they had red up the house, the Auld Licht lassies sat in the gloaming at their doors on three-legged stools, patiently knitting stockings.
There had been the sound of slow footsteps coming through the gloaming, Now a faint blur of face could be discerned and the black, black tresses of a Tibetan woman.
Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
It was by this time the mirkest of the gloaming, for they had purposely tarried on the journey that they might enter Edinburgh at dusk.
Moons, both crescent and full, provide a thin light in the gloaming.
In the end, neither George Washington nor Bernardini could light up the gloaming here last night, though the 23rd Breeders' Cup Classic revealed a true champion none the less.
I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
Examples from Classical Literature
For there was a gloaming when Donnacha bn came back alone, in his sailing boat.
When the sun was fairly down, we slipped back to the hotel in the charitable gloaming, and went to bed again.
You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming.
It was in the gloaming, and the little sitting-room was warm and cosy.
Lasst Midsummer Day aa was on t' Shanmoor road, i' t' gloaming.
The goats have gathered round me as I sit musing in the gloaming.
It uplifted his soul, like soft music in the gloaming, or a woman's face.
Man, hurry home before the gloaming betrays you to the dark.
She twisted a piece of paper into a spill, and put an end to the gloaming.
There was no mistaking who it was waiting there in the gloaming.
But he forgot that later as they rode home through the gloaming.
A pretty girl at time o' gloaming Hath whispered me to go and meet her Without the city gate.
Through the gloaming another boy was loping in, on a spotted pony.
At length, in the first gloaming of the night, we heard a trumpet sound, and looking back from among the heather, saw the troop beginning to collect.
With a hitch of his broad Bokhariot belt the Pathan swaggered off into the gloaming, and the lama came down from his clouds so far as to look at the broad back.
All this Alleyne listened to, until the dark keep of Twynham towered above them in the gloaming, and they saw the red sun lying athwart the rippling Avon.
Gloaming had stolen into the valley when dite Deuchars, of Tilliedrum, rose to his feet and deliberately spat upon the coffin.
Gloaming had stolen into the valley when dite Deuchars of Tilliedrum rose to his feet and deliberately spat upon the coffin.
In doing so they saw off stiff competition from Bellowhead, The Furrow Collective and The Gloaming to take the award.
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