nightfall

How To Use nightfall In A Sentence

• An hour later, after nightfall, he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come.
• It was the long wait for nightfall that built up the tension. Bomber
• If something happened at a luncheon or garden party it was bound to be all over the town by nightfall, thanks to gossipmongers like Lady Miller and her ilk.
• Tom was the only man who dared run the bar in the dark, and that last time, between nightfall and the dawn, with a southeaster breezing up, he had sailed his schooner in and out again. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
• I had planned to just play for an hour or two, but events soon conspired to keep me in Connecticut until nightfall.
• 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, light-handed, heavy-hearted. The White Silence
• Staggering home to the tent after nightfall he would have been sure, sooner or later, to fall into a dry shicer and break his neck, or into a wet one and be drowned. Australia Felix
• Howsomever, the wind breezed up a little on the second day, and by nightfall it blew pretty freshish, with a heavyish sea on. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
• We first visited the village of Sand Beach, and returned at nightfall to the breakwater, which is five miles distant from the former; here the yacht was cabled to the dock. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
• In the last flush of the setting sun, impalas and wildebeest pull tighter together and drift toward deep cover before nightfall.