sunsetting
- noun
- /ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ/
- Crowley's vision of the gradual sunsetting of the industrial age, there and in several other of his books, is, to my mind, one of the best and most evocative.
So we're going to have a little sunset tea time.
- So we're going to have a little sunset tea time.
- We're suggesting that it the Serpent Mound's alignment to the summer solstice sunset is just slightly off.
- My computer is set to go into night mode, so at sunrise the blue light comes back on, and at sunset the blue light turns off.
- He's going to enjoy the beautiful sunsets seashores.
- And I noticed more recently while working on this book that all of this was sensory sunsets, somersaults, ice cream, you name it.
Examples
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We watched the beautiful colors in the sky during the sunsetting as the day turned into night.
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At the beach, families gathered to witness the sunsetting over the ocean, creating a breathtaking view.
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And where this all leads is to the sunsetting of the Utility User Tax.
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Please create a budget that reflects a sunsetting UUT.
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If I start my day in silence and with a nice sunset, then every little thing is gonna be alright and nothing can bring me down that day.
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My computer is set to go into night mode, so at sunrise the blue light comes back on, and at sunset the blue light turns off.
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The sunsetting of the AWB showed the complete impotence of modern gun control advocates at the federal level.
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The issue is that the satellites fly in low orbits, and around sunset and sunrise they reflect light very efficiently.
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When Yahoo! purchased it and half-announced its sunsetting, the community cried foul.
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This is clearly less enthusiastic than how the mountains drip with sunset, but it's key insight, namely that an event of enormous proportion happens daily.
Synonyms
The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon and daylight fades
The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon
The time in the evening when it becomes dark and night begins
Soft light in the sky just before sunrise or after sunset
The soft light after sunset before it becomes dark
The time of day when the sun goes below the horizon
The time after the sun goes down when the sky is partly light
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Sunsetting comes from sun + setting, where setting means 'going down' and it is the same idea as sunset. So, as a noun sunsetting means the time when the sun goes down and daylight ends.