sunup
Example Sentences
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When I explained this to a Muslim friend, he replied that it “kinda sounds like diet Ramadan”—which demands that Muslims go without food or drink from sunup to sundown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Before sunup on Jan. 8, as the Eaton fire roared across the San Gabriel Mountains, a blaze of texts and calls lit up my phone with a ferocity of their own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Once-near-empty streets are lined with cars from sunup to sundown, parked by true-crime addicts, serial killer aficionados and some people obsessed specifically with the Gilgo Beach murders.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
I grew up on the blacktop — where we teens and preteens pounded basketballs from sunup till the lights at the park went dark.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2023
Around sunup, she flies off and leaves her eggs.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
