[ US /ˌæftɝˈnun/ ]
NOUN
  1. a conventional expression of greeting or farewell
  2. the part of the day between noon and evening
    he spent a quiet afternoon in the park
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How To Use afternoon In A Sentence

  • A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
  • One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
  • She has determined on going this afternoon.
  • James arrived in midafternoon with former teammate Damon Jones.
  • The snowstorm will last till tomorrow afternoon.
  • And they sing and play oboes and clarinets and violins and cellos and recorders on through the late afternoon in a warm, close auditorium.
  • The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
  • I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time. Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
  • And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
  • Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon.
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