Sentence examples for light dies from inspiring English sources

When the flower dies, the light dies, too.

He fished past dusk, when light dies and bats flit over the water.

As in "The Dunciad," "light dies be before thy uncreating word / Thy hand, great Anarch!

And the laughs keep coming, even as the light dies, her face turns grey and her eyes dull like a corpse's.

Pope's Dunciad ends with these lines: Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.

To represent Pope, Bloom picks the famous, uncompromising, gorgeous and apocalyptic conclusion to the four-book "Dunciad": Lo! thy dread Empire, chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.

The light died earlier each day: it was October.

The light died in the little girl's eye, and wonder fled from the world.

Those afternoons the light died quickly and we talked nearly non-stop, race-walking into the wind.

Then the light died and rain pushed in from the west as I hurried to take shelter in Dunge Wood.

As the light died over Roland Garros, the Swiss moved with the precision of his country's clocks.