wee hours
Example Sentences
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The suspects were stopped by police as they headed in three vehicles in the wee hours of Sunday to the U.K’s Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Open titlist, called the evening “completely insane” and said finding her best tennis in the wee hours of the morning was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Daily Monitor said on X that the newspaper and its fellow outlets were ordered to close "in a crackdown during the wee hours of Sunday".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Earlier, in the wee hours of Sunday, the US space agency published an image taken by the Artemis crew, showing a distant Moon with the Orientale basin visible.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
Along in the wee hours of morning, I fell asleep.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
