wee small hours
Example Sentences
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When the last result was eventually declared in Inverness in the wee small hours, in a counting centre littered with empty pizza boxes, there was not even a crumb of comfort for the party.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
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
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
Few Northern New York folk along the road went to bed until it returned, which was always well into the wee small hours of Monday morning.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward
