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  • noun Plural form of sunset.

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Examples

  • Happening to remark, in looking up at the clouds, which were still bright in the west, that "what had struck me in Italian sunsets was that peculiar rosy hue --" I had hardly pronounced the word "rosy," when Lord Byron, clapping his hand on my mouth, said, with a laugh,

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • Our common senses tell us that the sun rises and the sunsets, that is, that the sun moves while we in Kansas or Moscow or Nairobi remain in our place.

    Dark Energy 2009

  • Right on the western edge of the island, the sunsets are amazing and the views of Concep are impressive.

    Ometepe « Wanderings 2006

  • The sunsets were a magnificent palette of rainbow hues.

    Joan Borysenko: Avoiding Your Own Personal Energy Crisis 2008

  • We shall like that, I am sure, and we shall have many talks, and try to straighten out this matter of dreams -- and of sunsets, which is really very important, and not in the least to be ignored.

    Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

  • On Thursday NELP updated that analysis to include 800,000 people receiving Extended Benefits in 24 states where the program "sunsets" the instant federal funding is cut off.

    Two Million Jobless To Lose Benefits By January Unless Congress Acts The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On Thursday NELP updated that analysis to include 800,000 people receiving Extended Benefits in 24 states where the program "sunsets" the instant federal funding is cut off.

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 28TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On Thursday NELP updated that analysis to include 800,000 people receiving Extended Benefits in 24 states where the program "sunsets" the instant federal funding is cut off.

    Two Million Jobless To Lose Benefits By January Unless Congress Acts The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On Thursday NELP updated that analysis to include 800,000 people receiving Extended Benefits in 24 states where the program "sunsets" the instant federal funding is cut off.

    Two Million Jobless To Lose Benefits By January Unless Congress Acts The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On Thursday NELP updated that analysis to include 800,000 people receiving Extended Benefits in 24 states where the program "sunsets" the instant federal funding is cut off.

    HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 28TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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