wee small hours
Example Sentences
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Yet many lights are used in ways — unshielded and shining into the sky, blazing over empty parking lots through the wee small hours — that serve little purpose.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
"On nights you stay in Wellington, you're probably still going to be up at daybreak and then maybe working to the wee small hours."
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2023
Whether you're reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it's 100 seconds to midnight.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2020
The new hourlong documentary “Nightshift” profiles a baker, a janitor and other Angelenos who ply their respective trades well into the wee small hours.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2019
Her father frequently accompanied her to balls, and in the wee small hours of the night, as he became weary, I have often been amused at his summons to depart—"Addie, allons."
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
