Sentence examples for dusk settling from inspiring English sources

Despite the inevitable modern sense of incongruity (Henry, while decrying "enslavement" by the English king, was himself a true slaveholder), shivers coursed down my spine when Cotton reached a crescendo, practically shouting into the dusk settling upon the city, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" It isn't all about magnolias.

With dusk settling on the green swells and white tablets of Arlington, and insects clicking in the trees, the joint casket team carried the coffin up the thick grass to a grave dug early Saturday morning, 80 inches long and 32 inches wide.

If you can get past the sound of a man who grew up in Wimbledon singing like he spent his youth in Wyoming, the title track is a beautiful song that succeeds in conjuring up the kind of atmosphere that the album's twilight-skyline sleeve suggest they wanted to evoke: its guitars fall languidly over an insistent rhythmic pulse; it sounds appealingly like dusk settling on a city.

As dusk settles I check into my hotel, the art-themed Maison du Frêne.

Dusk settled over the courtyard, and by eight it was dark.

She was sitting on the roof again, as a cold dusk settled, the sky tinged green.

A ROSY dusk settles on the Johor Strait, separating Singapore from Malaysia.

As dusk settled in, a huge wall of smoke and clouds hung ominously over Black Forest.

By the time dusk settled over Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, the final outcome had virtually been settled.

In fact, as dusk settles on Key West, it seems as if the chickens are everywhere.

Crickets chirped loudly as a pinkish dusk settled on the dusty landscape outside.