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1. dusk
noun. ['ˈdʌsk'] the time of day immediately following sunset.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- dosk (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Dusk
- brusque
- bruske
- tusk
- rusk
- muske
- musk
- lusk
- kuske
- husk
- cusk
- buske
- busk
How do you pronounce dusk?
Pronounce dusk as dəsk.
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UK - How to pronounce dusk in British English
Sentences with dusk
1. Noun, singular or mass
The only way to reset the sensor is to wait until dusk and pass in front of the sensor.
2. Adjective
The park is open to visitors free of charge from dawn until dusk each day.
3. Noun, plural
You may need to wait until dusk to perform some of these steps, depending on your flood lights.
4. Verb, base form
The park, open from dawn to dusk, gives you a glimpse of an old Indian village.
Quotes about dusk
1. Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
2. Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
3. In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
