nocturnal

1 Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, flying squirrels, and our friends the salamanders exist in admirable numbers, though you don’t often see them, as most are nocturnal or wary of people.

2 He became celebrated for his nocturnal shots of his native Buenos Aires, as well as his Bauhaus-influenced images of everyday objects, such as intricately coiled balls of twine.

3 The baroque curves and nocturnal colours of this painting tear open the curtains of desire.

4 Like nocturnal doubts, they don't seem to expect an answer, and are offered up to the void more in hope than expectation – and that hope soon dissolves.

5 That shyness, and the fact that many owls are nocturnal, have made them objects of fear and wonder to humans for thousands of years.

6 After a night of attracting nocturnal pollinators, they wither and drop.

7 The frisky “Bloop, Bleep!” and the galloping boogie-woogie “Rumble, Rumble, Rumble,” she explained, described Loesser’s nocturnal frustration at the sounds of dripping faucets and an upstairs piano player.

8 “Also, it is nighttime and crows are not nocturnal.”

9 The combination of being nocturnal and being bombarded with sight and sound kept me wide-awake.

10 In addition to attracting new nocturnal visitors, “The Spoon River Project” may help cultivate the cemetery’s lesser-known literary side.

11 The anglepoise lamps that light his nocturnal labours give him the twilight colours of Rembrandt's kindly brush.

12 She watches the shadows that the passing traffic throws onto their ceiling, listens to a truck wailing in the distance like a solitary, nocturnal beast.

13 He handled the fragments of “Fem” with geometric brightness, a Mondrian painting in sound, but his turn to its more reflective, nocturnal conclusion was entirely persuasive.

14 Wong’s paintings of nocturnal landscapes and interiors “explore the infinite tones, moods and luminosities of the color blue,” and reveal a “visionary fusion of form and feeling,” Smith wrote.

15 This year's offering is a nocturnal love story set in Venice.

16 History books show the lightning has played a significant role in Venezuelan history, helping thwart at least two nocturnal invasions of the country.

17 a nocturnal visit

夜访

18 The room has a nocturnal theatricality; sitting at the counter with darkness behind you facing the spotlighted kitchen can feel like attending an extremely elegant campfire.

19 The old man braves a nocturnal phantasmagoria of three-hooved horses, zombies with leafy heads, a demoness toting souls in an oxcart.

20 He misses Sterling Library, where he studies every night after dinner, and the nocturnal schedule of which he is now a part.

1 夜行性的

night

2 每夜

nightly nights

3 夜的

night nightly nighty

4 夜间

nights nighttime nighttide by night night at night overnight night-time night commode

5 夜间发生的

nightly night

6 夜间活动

moonlighting

7 夜景

nightscape

8 夜开的

nyctanthous

9 夜

night nightly nighty dark sleep night commode dim

10 夜间的

overnight

11 夜曲

nocturne

12 夜间开花的

noctiflorous