nightfall

Example Sentences

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Those who do come in start earlier alongside him but leave before nightfall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 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

Just after nightfall we finally come to another settlement, another one with docks on the river, another one abandoned.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness