SUNSET


Meaning of SUNSET in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sunset industry

sunset industries such as steel

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

spectacular

We ended a perfect day sipping sangria at a cliffside restaurant, relaxing in the spectacular sunset .

From those windows, too, spectacular sunsets spilled into the hospital rooms.

There would be no spectacular sunset this evening, she noted.

I went slowly, and presently found myself walking towards a most spectacular sunset .

In the evening, head for the Santana Restaurant at Lighthouse Beach where you can view spectacular sunsets .

■ NOUN

industry

In such circumstances, an industrial policy that seeks faster and more efficient rationalization of the sunset industry may be advantageous.

This directly challenges the notion of a hard distinction between sunrise industries and sunset industries with the latter doomed inevitably to decline.

■ VERB

ride

A man on horseback, riding into the sunset with his gun.

As he rides away, the sunset gilds his silhouette.

see

I saw it once at sunset .

Through the strips of waving screen he could see sunset in the palmettos, sunset on the flat sand.

watch

We'd go for long walks and eat hot meals and watch the sunset .

We could watch the sunset and see various firefights among the troops below the mountain and the spectacular B-52 strikes.

Or just sit with their arm around the child, watching the sunset .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a purple and orange sunset

The park is open from 8 a.m. to sunset .

We sat and watched the glorious sunset from across the Mekong river.

You may prefer to sit on the terrace sipping a cocktail at sunset .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At sunset , stand with your arms out to each side.

At least if they kept going towards the sunset they were going away from the Ridgery and would arrive somewhere.

Coffee was followed by yet another sunset , the best possible after-dinner entertainment.

Instead, towards sunset , he led us to another village, off the highway and surrounded by paddy fields.

Lovers walked hand in hand towards the sunset .

Music at the fairgrounds begins each Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning and ends about sunset on 11 stages.

Shortly after sunset each night Janir volunteered for bed.

The bats leave the caverns at sunset each day to feed on night-flying insects.

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