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Example sentences for "after sunset"

  • After sunset, we came to a dry creek, and were compelled to encamp without water.

  • After sunset, the clouds cleared off, but, as the night advanced, gradually collected again.

  • After sunset, we stopt at the right bank for the second time, to obtain more wood for the night.

  • Mobile point lies to the left, where, after sunset, we beheld the light in the light-house.

  • After sunset we saw several fires at a distance, in the plain, which Hamd immediately concluded to be those of the Towara caravan.

  • We proceeded in the direction of Soueida, and in an hour and a quarter from the village stopped, after sunset, at an encampment of the Djebel Haouran Arabs.

  • We arrived, after sunset, in one hour from Kuffer, at an encampment of Arabs Rawafie, immediately at the foot of the Kelab; and there took up our quarters for the night.

  • An elderly man assembled all the inmates, often outside the lodge and generally after sunset, and caused all the adult men and women, who were in the habit of smoking, to sit down in a circle, while he stood in the middle.

  • After sunset or at midnight the mistress of the house, or another female member of the family, walks all round the garden dragging a broom after her.

  • After sunset he puts off his disguise, is paid for his trouble, and carouses with his fellows.

  • In Little Russia the figure of Yarilo was laid in a coffin and carried through the streets after sunset surrounded by drunken women, who kept repeating mournfully, "He is dead!

  • From the description some might suppose that the light is visible immediately after sunset.

  • Being frequently asked about the people of her country, she asserted that the inhabitants, and all they had in that country, were of a green colour; and that they saw no sun, but enjoyed a degree of light like what is after sunset.

  • One evening, after sunset, there came a strange man to the ferry of Sund.

  • The linden or lime tree is the favourite haunt of the Elves and cognate beings; and it is not safe to be near it after sunset.

  • Monday, 18th of February Yesterday, after sunset, the Admiral was sailing round the island, to see where he could anchor and open communications.

  • Friday, 15th of February Last night, after sunset, the sky began to clear toward the west, showing that the wind was inclined to come from that quarter.

  • After sunset, when the air has become somewhat cooled by the refreshing breezes, they sally forth attended by their retainers to take a walk, or proceed to the bazaars to purchase goods, or to sell or to barter away their articles of produce.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after all; after another; after bathing; after debate; after exposure; after looking; after marriage; after partaking; after preaching; after seven; after speaking; after sunset; after taking; after telling; after thee; after them; after two; after waiting; after years; afterwards called; afterwards learnt; feeble health; might venture; moral teaching; organic matters; would amount