first light
Example Sentences
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The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh's Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
The first light also sets an internal timer for melatonin to be produced again 14 hours later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
Nonetheless, we take a page out of Hemingway’s book and leave The Mira “as soon after first light as possible.”
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
What the folklore says is that the vampire must return to its grave before first light.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
The fishing boats that went out from Provincetown went out when night was still dark, so that as the first light brought out the fish they could be there, nets down and ready.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
