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How to use nightfall in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Nightfall means the close of the day; the coming of night. Example: “The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.”

More sentences with nightfall

  • The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.From the entry sod
  • We should clap together a shelter before nightfall.From the entry clap
  • We were tucking out until nightfall.From the entry tuck out
  • After nightfall on Sunday, the upscale residential neighbourhood of Whampoa became a flashpoint between protesters and police.2019 December 2, Holmes Chan, “‘Don’t forget our original intentions’: Thousands protest in Kowloon, as Hong Kong police fire tear gas”…. From the entry Whampoa
  • By nightfall the whole Sidi Rezegh Ridge was in German occupation.2011, David Fraser, And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry preempt
  • Since nightfall he's bracing himself for the hallucinations he knows are soon to come.2011, Nicole Pickens, Fictitious Tales for the Children of God, page 40. From the entry ghost bullet
  • Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down. From the entry gregarious
  • Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café. From the entry hie
  • Nightfall also awakened the neighborhood orchestra of crickets.2024 April 21, Borden Applegate, “Jacksonville Beach retiree: Memories of frogs, fireflies and a natural world now vanished”, in The…. From the entry orchestra
  • The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled.2006, Pamela Kaufman, The Prince of Poison. From the entry roilsome
  • James Baptist Church, which was swamped long before nightfall.1989, Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, page 771. From the entry foretide
  • He's making a balls-out run for Motor City by nightfall.1976, CBer's Handy Atlas/Dictionary, page 9, column 2. From the entry balls-out
  • Toward nightfall her valet de chambre brought in a letter that he announced portentously came from the grande duchesse of Berg and Cleves.1973, Elizabeth Mayhew, My Son Charles, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1976, page 183. From the entry valet de chambre
  • Sammy Squirrel slept inside the tortoise's house until nightfall and then he came out and, skippity-hippity, away he went to Owl's Barn.1955, Time & Tide, volume 36, page 1582. From the entry hippity
  • Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman. From the entry smoky black
  • Running short after a couple of chaotic days in the field, Hamer hoped to have the batteries by nightfall, when the company would need them the most.2017, Warren K. Wilkins, Nine Days in May, page 261. From the entry in the field
  • Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose,all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.2013, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf, →ISBN. From the entry light-handed
  • Late one afternoon the skipper said he thought that we should have a breeze before nightfall, and the helmsman—an elderly Finnishman—ventured to feel sure that we should.1902 April, J. E. Patterson, “Anecdotes of Sea Superstitions”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly…. From the entry Finnishman

Meaning of nightfall

  1. noun The close of the day; the coming of night.
  2. noun Nocturnal emission.

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Questions about nightfall in a sentence

How do you use nightfall in a sentence?
Nightfall is used as a noun. For example: “The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.”
What is a short sentence with nightfall?
“We were tucking out until nightfall.”
What does nightfall mean?
Nightfall means the close of the day; the coming of night.

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