sunset
IPA: sˈʌnsɛt
noun
- The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
- The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
- (figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
- (attributively) A set termination date.
- The region where the sun sets; the west.
verb
- (business, politics, transitive) To phase out.
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Examples of "sunset" in Sentences
- Time zones exist so that the sunrise and sunset is somewhat regular throughout the world.
- Now we're sixty, and the sunset is neither russet nor gold, but the shadows of dead trees are lovely tonight.
- The light of sunset is reflected in the Liffey, giving everything around me a crimson glow as night begins to creep up the eastern sky.
- Sure, driving off into the sunset is a bit schmaltzy but I lke all the rest of it far more than the cliche of jumping on a grenade to save everyone.
- I have heard people say the sunset is a lonely time, when fears come out, and apprehensions creep over them ... and all their troubles come trooping home.
- One evening, when work was over, we found him walking the forecastle, taking what he called his sunset food shaker, in a more than usually thoughtful mood.
- The sun has just set beneath the shadows of the buildings around me, although the light of sunset is reflected in the river, giving everything around me a crimson glow as night begins to creep into the eastern sky.
- Yes | No | Report from faze631 wrote 2 weeks 6 days ago if you bring one thing bring a back track. finding your way back to camp after venturing out into the woods racing the sunset is not fun. they sell the bushnell backtrack almost everywhere cabelas, bass pro, sports authority dicks modells probably even kmart
- August 29th, 2009 11: 41 pm ET how fitting it was for him to be buried at night and it rain during his funeral this morning. it was very symbolic. the meaning behind the rain was that the state of massachusetts raining tears of sadness for losing a native son. the meaning of the burial not happening until sunset is it being the end of that generation of political service.
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