nightfall

Example Sentences

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Come nightfall, capturing the lightning bugs during the few hours they appear each evening takes stamina and perseverance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

In it, a husband and wife adopt a cat, Sheila, who develops an unnerving disposition come nightfall.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

By nightfall, the country would begin to learn the outcome.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

In the weeks that followed its capture, the streets emptied out at nightfall and the buzz evaporated from the bars that had once offered some respite in a region scarred by three decades of conflict.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

So Ged and Vetch made no long stay, but set forth again before nightfall, going always south and east.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin