gloaming
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Synonyms & Antonyms for gloaming
Synonyms
black, blackness, candlelight, dark, darkness, dusk, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra
Antonyms
blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness
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For now, Nadal has a 24-15 edge in head-to-head matches, and Federer has a 2-1 edge at Wimbledon, having defeated Nadal in the 2006 and 2007 finals before losing in the gloaming in 2008. — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, "A Long-Awaited Wimbledon Rematch: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal," 10 July 2019 Now, in the gloaming of Friday evening, the Northern Irishman was inching towards the cut mark, one nail-biting, stomach-churning birdie at a time. — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, "Emotional Rory McIlroy feels 'love' in dramatic late Open bid," 19 July 2019 In the gloaming, these white jumpsuits, moving irregularly amid the deep green of the manicured grounds, brought to mind an avant-garde film about a lunatic asylum: the inmates, in their hospital gowns, out for a constitutional. — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, "Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National," 14 June 2019 For a time, the cardinal intermittently pierced the dark silence of the gloaming with its calls, but then went silent. — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A cardinal's song, or a spiritual experience?," 5 July 2018 The fans at the panel’s sides were making a faint whinging sound, still blowing as the last of the solar power worked in the gloaming light. — Ryan Bradley, WIRED, "Can Humans Survive on Water Vapor Alone?," 8 Mar. 2018 Lawrence Taylor, Anderson and many others reached the gloaming of their careers. — David J. Neal, miamiherald, "Super Bowl history game-by-game, from Packers to Patriots | Miami Herald," 30 Jan. 2018 There was a soft breeze in the gloaming; the heat was finally off the day. — Andrew Mccarthy, New York Times, "Up Close With the Tribes of Ethiopia’s Imperiled Omo Valley," 30 Oct. 2017 During a special teams segment at the end of practice Sammy Baugh, a quarterback with the Redskins from 1937 through ’52 but also a record-setting punter, boots a high spiral into the gloaming. — Tim Layden, SI.com, "The MMQB All-Time Draft: The Ultimate Football Fantasy," 19 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gloaming.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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