Sentence examples for failing light from inspiring English sources

"failing light" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual decrease in the amount of light, often towards the end of the day. Example: As the sun set behind the horizon, the failing light cast long shadows across the empty field.

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The failing light energized us, and we rallied.

In failing light Watkins's company was almost completely surrounded.

Sulfurs, tiny yellow mayflies, began emerging in the failing light.

In the failing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances".

It was a ghostly assembly, an effect no doubt enhanced by the failing light.

Finally, in failing light, we roused a flock of night herons from a densely vegetated marsh.

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They complain of faulty toilets, failing light-bulbs and mosquitos.

All those gathered around for support are reminded that in a life together, learning to cope with the problems and complications bound to ensue (failing lights, melting ice swans, smashed cakes, stained dresses) is far more important to a successful marriage than is one flawlessly executed party.

We look back up to heaven--as you might expect, after peering into the failing light--and find--as you might expect--that it is empty.

Chapter upon chapter about the failing of light is hardly the stuff of headlines.

That all-important members of Warren Gatland's Wales are failing to light up France can be seen as a worry – or by the Wales coach perhaps with delight.

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