Word Finder - sunset

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The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.

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The changes in color of the sky at sunset.

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The final period of the life of a person or thing.

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one's sunset years

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Having a set termination date.

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The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

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The region where the sun sets; the west.

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To phase out.

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We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

After sunset the wind had dropped.

With the sunset came a chilled breeze.

She sat on the bed and watched the sunset through the window.

I used to start them in the open land also, where they had come out of the woods at sunset to "bud" the wild apple trees.

At sunset, too, after a warm day, if the air is still, the cooling of the earth by radiation cools the lower layers, and sound carries excellently over a level surface.

The transition from blue to orange or red at sunset is usually through green, but exceptional conditions may easily disturb the normal state of things.

Night is that part of the natural day of twenty-four hours during which the sun is below the horizon, the dark part of the day from sunset to sunrise.

Tomorrow, we'll come here just before sunset.

He silently chastised himself for even caring that some guy named Cleary had spent a few weeks in Scranton and now was traveling off in the sunset in a blue-white-or-lavender motor home.

The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?

By the Lights on Vehicles Act 1907, all vehicles on highways in England and Wales must display to the front a white light during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.

I was talking about the sunset.

Polymitarcys virgo, which, though not found in England, occurs in many parts of Europe (and is common at Paris), emerges from the water soon after sunset, and continues for several hours in such myriads as to resemble snow showers, putting out lights, and causing inconvenience to man, and annoyance to horses by entering their nostrils.

We know that the rites at Mozdalifa were originally connected with a holy hill bearing the name of the god Quzah (the Edomite Koze) whose bow is the rainbow, and there is reason to think that the ifadas from Arafa and Quzah, which were not made as now after sunset and before sunrise, but when the sun rested on the tops of the mountains, were ceremonies of farewell and salutation to the sun-god.

The brilliant colouring which is so conspicuous in an Athenian sunset is due to the same cause.

She crossed to the window and stood watching another majestic sunset.

But a little bird which sings at sunset wakened Night, she snapped up Maui, and men die.

Something about his tone made her glance up and she caught him watching her instead of the sunset.

Prevent mosquito bites by staying inside during the peak hours, from sunset to sunrise, when mosquitoes are likely to be out.

The sole precaution taken was to confine themselves between sunset and sunrise to their mosquitoproof dwelling.

The glow and the glamour of the Crusades disappear save for the pathetic sunset splendours of St Louis, as Dandolo dies, and gallant Villehardouin drops his pen.

They are milked once a day about sunset by the women (the men milk the camels), and a large proportion of the milk is made into samn, clarified butter, or marisi, dried curd.

In later Christian times the Paschal month was calculated from the astronomical new moon; in earlier Jewish times all months were reckoned to begin at the first sunset when the new moon was visible, which in the most favourable circumstances would be some hours, and in the most unfavourable three days, later than the astronomical new moon.

Other versions of the Death-myth in Polynesia relate that Maui stole a march on Night as she slept, and would have passed right through her to destroy her, but a little bird which sings at sunset woke her, she destroyed Maui, and men lost immortality.

It should be noticed that clocks, on which Tycho Brahe depended very little, were used at Cassel for finding the difference of right ascension between Venus and the sun before sunset; Tycho preferred observing the angular distance between the sun and Venus when the latter was visible in the daytime.

In criminal law the day formerly commenced at sunrise and extended to sunset, but by the Larceny Act 1861 the day is that period between six in the morning and nine in the evening.

We decided to stay till sunset for the evening flight and were rewarded with eighty Philippine cockatoos flying into the roost tree.

Those colored suns are exactly in the same place they were when we came, and if there is no sunset there can be no night.

You can watch the woman who brings sunshine into every room fade away like the sunset.

Maybe drink a manhattan at sunset on the Top of the Mark?

His protest, it is needless to say, was unavailing, and all who respect his memory must regret that the sunset of life failed to give him that insight into the future which is poetically ascribed to it.

The arrival of Buell enabled the Federals to take the offensive next morning along the whole line, and by sunset on the 7th, after another sanguinary battle, Beauregard was in full retreat.

In the early ages of Rome, and even down to the middle of the 5th century after the foundation of the city, no other divisions of the day were known than sunrise, sunset, and midday, which was marked by the arrival of the sun between the Rostra and a place called Graecostasis, where ambassadors from Greece and other countries used to stand.

Sunset brought on the Jewish sabbath, but the next evening the women brought spices to anoint the body, and at sunrise on the third day they arrived at the tomb, and saw that the stone was rolled away.

A little before sunset a procession is formed at the house of the bridegroom, and proceeds with a band of music, amid great pomp and ceremony, to the house of the bride's father.

He relates the rise and persecution of a prophet and preacher, the catastrophe of a falling mountain and submergence of a great city, followed by a general inundation, and the claim of the prophet to have foretold these disasters; adding physical descriptions of the Euphrates river and the marvellous effects of sunset light on the Taurus range.

About the time when he was writing The Mask of Pandora, he could see "in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold," and hear "the waves of the distracted sea piteously calling and lamenting" his lost friend.

Under it the state bought liquors, graded them in accordance with a chemical analysis, and sold them to consumers in packages of not less than one half-pint; the dispensaries were open from sunrise to sunset, no sales were made to minors or drunkards, and no liquor was drunk on the premises; there was a state dispensary commissioner and a state board of control; and the profits were divided between the state, the counties and the municipalities, the share of the state being devoted to educational purposes.

Solar and lunar myths usually account for the observed phenomena of eclipse, waning and waxing, sunset, spots on the moon, and so forth by various mythical adventures of the animated heavenly beings.

Take a romantic, sunset, horseback ride together, and stop for some wine and cheese under a tree.

For many couples, nothing is more romantic than sunset over a white sand beach.

Consider proposing on bended knee on a beach or in a favorite nostalgic place - perhaps the scene of a first date or kiss - at sunset or under the stars.

When most couples think of romantic proposals, they think of candlelit dinners, sunset beaches, or other elaborate arrangements.

The property is designed so that you can swim with dolphins in the morning, ride to lunch on a gondola, and watch the sunset while dining at a traditional luau in the evening.

They included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard's home in Ohio.

The 90s gave birth to a large list of one-time hit makers who soared to the top of the charts and then kept soaring right off into the sunset.

In this time period, the new day began at sunset, which would have been October 31.

No one probably would have ever guessed that a reality show based on a tanning salon would be a success, but producers definitely found a hit in Sunset Tan.

While Peachaboo was technically considered a light orange hue, the metallic base changed the polish into soft, glowy shades of rose, copper and sunset.

Challenge your teenager to beat you up the mountainside to catch the sunset over the harbor.