dark hours
Example Sentences
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Malow said essential workers and students are the most vulnerable to health and sleep problems, and warned that the time shift means people may be waking up to commute in dark hours.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
It would go down in history as the darkest of dark hours.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2022
“In these dark hours, our thoughts are with Ukraine and the innocent women, men and children as they face this unprovoked attack and fear for their lives,” they said on Twitter.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022
In the dark hours past midnight recently, several groups of men set out over the mountain’s jagged, gravel-coated slopes as the lights of El Paso twinkled in the distance.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2021
We arose in the dark, hours before sunrise, when there was barely a smudge of indigo along the eastern sky and the rest of the horizon was still pure pitch.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
