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Example sentences for "last night"

  • He told her so last night, and she told me this morning.

  • Lapham frowned into his coffee with sulky dignity, and said, without looking up, "I wonder what that fellow wanted here last night?

  • Last night at sundown, sayest thou, and it is not yet dawn?

  • I left Incubu wounded, but leading the advance against Sorais last night at sundown; therefore let thy heart have rest.

  • All day we watched and waited, but nothing happened, and at last night fell, and a thousand watch-fires twinkled brightly on the slopes, to wane and die one by one like the stars they resembled.

  • Last night I was on the threshold of hell.

  • It's well people don't really rise from their grave, or, last night, she might have witnessed a repulsive scene!

  • He is clearly on the verge of madness: he was so last night at least.

  • T isn't a letter, for to-day's mail hasn't come and she was all right last night.

  • Last night, Ruth," he began, "my father came to me in a dream.

  • Last night we took Irais and Minora, and drove the three lonely miles in a sleigh.

  • You haven't got that like Mag Sinton had it last night," she announced.

  • I came nearer feeling sorry for her last night than I have yet.

  • Last night's odours had in a measure prepared her for what she would see, but not quite.

  • Last night I went to sleep on mother's arm, the moths all secured, love and college, certainties.

  • Last night I sent off a messenger to Madrid for a fresh supply, which I expect will arrive in a day or two.

  • But you did your duty, and I can be grateful to you for sparing me this morning, hard as you were upon me last night.

  • The creature did it regularly as he breathed; you did it last night, and you have been doing it to-day, as if the air cut you to the quick.

  • Last night, no: I discard all mention of last night.

  • Last night he had proposed to De Craye to take Miss Middleton for a ride the next afternoon.

  • Last night he gave me reasons for thinking you would do wisely to confide in Mrs. Mountstuart.

  • Last night at Stirling, over his beer, he held forth upon the dimples on Miss Dunbar's pink elbows, and asked me if her hair were all her own.

  • The prince told us last night," turning to Miss Vance, "the old legends about his castle.

  • Last night in her white, delicate beauty she had not seemed real--she was far off, like an angel coming down into his depths of misery.

  • The Conservative member for the county got in last night and we rejoiced greatly, as the moral effect will help Harry Cust greatly.

  • Last night I slept in a hut with a woman and her three daughters all over fifteen and they sat up and watched me prepare for bed with great interest.

  • What, you're a cabalist; I know you stayed at Millamant's last night after I went.

  • You had the tyranny to deny me last night, though you knew I came to impart a secret to you that concerned my love.

  • Last night I got leave to sling my cot under the main hatchway, as my cabin must have killed me from suffocation when shut up.

  • Last night we got all right, and spread out immense studding-sails.

  • The packet came in last night, but just in time to save the fine of 50l.

  • Last night a dance took place in a house next door to this, and a party of boers attempted to go in, but were repulsed by a sortie of the young men within.

  • Looks as if it hadn't been slept in last night.

  • You had been where you were last night--somewheres downtown, for I saw you get off the car.

  • He told me that--twice, he told me, last night.

  • Last night, however, he had not left the chateau, his mind being disturbed by a presentiment that some new crime would be attempted.

  • Last night I was again obliged to give him morphine--the only drug that gives him any relief.

  • This morning, walking round the chateau, I found two distinct sets of footprints, made at the same time, last night.

  • Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see!

  • Last night I dreamed a dream; and in my vision Beheld Onias, our High-Priest of old, Who holding up his hands prayed for the Jews.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "last night" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    country code; deal with; gray paper; last book; last consented; last effort; last evening; last held; last journey; last letters; last look; last obliged; last said; last speech; last succeeded; last summer; last voyage; last week; last will; last will and testament; last winter; last word; last words; last years; right living; show myself