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How to use sundown in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Sundown means sunset. Example: “We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.”

Examples of sundown by meaning

nounSunset.

  • We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.

verbTo experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or...

  • "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101

More sentences with sundown

  • But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.From the entry but
  • If a whistle blower popped up, they'd be epsteined by sundown.2023 April 25, Ben Verified - ✅, “Re:OT. Tucker Carlson Gone”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), archived from the original on 29 Sep 2024. From the entry epstein
  • After sundown, we continued to Boudhanath Stupa in the east of Kathmandu.2020 January 5, PATTARAWADEE SAENGMANEE, “Awakening from the quaking”, in Bangkok Post, archived from the original on 27 May 2022. From the entry Gyangtse
  • Dan and I loved to sit on our little backyard deck after sundown.2012, Bonnie Rough, Carrier. From the entry fruitsicle
  • VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures. From the entry Nagasaki
  • He had always been a home body, insisting on being home by sundown.2000, Roberta Zybach Yarbrough, A Trek in the Desert. Finding a Path Through Grief, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry homebody
  • Robinsons) and the hottest sundown cruising in town for the 40-and-under professional crowd.1979 November, Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 11. From the entry Mrs. Robinson
  • It was sundown when they found the Rocky Goose hullside up, but it was sunrise before they found Willard.2014, Nancy Parsons, The Ghost Ties a Double Knot, Lulu.com, page 34. From the entry hullside
  • A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 73. From the entry camp
  • Salubricious musings with mirthless guilt his soul churned to a woodpecker's rat-a-tat “on a distant tree at sundown.2013, Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination - Page 92. From the entry blitheless
  • At sundown the night watchman came on duty.2011, Maurice Harvey, Into the Great Unknown: Adventures in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia, Bloomington, Ill.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry watchnight
  • After loading we re-iced the iceboxes from a supplier in town, tarped down and cleaned up for a sundown departure.2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 113. From the entry re-ice
  • However, according to old-timers, there is a time-honored tradition extending back at least two generations that "this is a sundown town."1960, The National Conference and the reports of the State Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, page 330. From the entry sundown town
  • Beattie is a sundown town for tramps since the fire.1946 August 8, J. D. Stosz, “Jay Dee's Column”, in The Marysville Advocate, Marysville, Kansas, via Newspapers.com, page 11. From the entry sundown town
  • By sundown the heat of the day faded and the first slow night breeze moved over the Black Sea to Konstantinoupolis, its light touch heralding the coming darkness.1987, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, chapter 7, in A Flame in Byzantium, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN. From the entry Konstantinoupolis
  • In the buildup to the big night—the mass spawning always occurs after sundown—the corals begin to “set,” which might be thought of as the scleractinian version of going into labor.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 7, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company. From the entry scleractinian

Meaning of sundown

  1. noun Sunset.
  2. noun A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
  3. verb To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.

Full definition of sundown

Questions about sundown in a sentence

How do you use sundown in a sentence?
Sundown is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.”
What is a short sentence with sundown?
“We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.”
What does sundown mean?
Sundown means sunset.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sundown (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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