sundown

How To Use sundown In A Sentence

• People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
• The hard labor of the farm was mostly done by them, and on the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen "pickaninnies," eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
• Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do. House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• At sunup and sundown, the lagoon becomes a communal meeting place for locals.
• Without the alchemy that each green leaf performs from sunup to sundown during the growing season, life simply could not be.
• The term "sundowning" refers to a state of confusion at the end of the day and into the night, often leading to a state of increased agitation, activity and even borderline demented behavior. BroadwayWorld.com South Carolina Stories
• Isolation, loneliness, and the sheer drudgery of running a pioneer household - from sunup to sundown, without a single day's rest - has worn away at their resolve.
• It turns out that, just as most infants have a crying jag every afternoon before dinner, parents with dementia experience "sundowning," a late afternoon agitation that can get ugly. Karen Ann Coburn: The Visit
• So… after a few quiet sundowners and pleasant advertising industry banter in the foyer, we padded into the concert hall for the show.
• While it may seem to make sense to work cattle after sundown, wait until the cattle have had at least six hours of night cooling before working.