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Example sentences for "night after"

  • Night after night, she lay awake waiting till the light rustling of the meadow grass told her he was there: on moonlit nights a quick brushing sound; in the thick blackness a sound like a slow shearing as he felt his way.

  • Jerrold knew that she was not a brave woman like Anne or Colin's wife, Queenie; it was out of her love for him that she had drawn the courage that made her face, night after night, the horror of her torment alone.

  • Night after night, between eleven and midnight, he came to her.

  • Night after night he had gnawed at his steel chain.

  • Night after night he had watched the stars, and the moon, and had listened for Gray Wolf's call, while the big Dane lay sleeping.

  • Where do the bodies come from that are fished up, bloated and disfigured, night after night, by the harbor police, in haunts of the docks and from the slime of the Hudson?

  • I used to listen to them, night after night, when the pain kept me awake!

  • Pallas and Aphrodite haunted that old garret; out on Waterloo Bridge, night after night, I saw Selene and all her nymphs; and when my heart sank low, the fairies of Scotland sang me lullabies!

  • Night after night he had ridden towards Huntersfield, only to turn back before he reached the lower gate.

  • Night after night he sat in his room up-stairs in the old Schoolhouse, and wrote on "The Trumpeter Swan.

  • Day after day, night after night, his plane had hung, poised like an eagle, above the enemy.

  • Night after night, through many a month of pain.

  • But the child would come back night after night, though the earth lay heavy upon her--night after night, through long distances of Time and Space.

  • Carmen became alarmed;--she feared that the nervous and delicate child might die in one of those moaning dreams out of which she had to arouse her, night after night.

  • And when I picked them up and collected my senses, I thought, "I cannot tell mother to-night after all, Hal will stay with us.

  • Night after night my tear-stained pillow told my sorrow mutely, and day after day I sighed.

  • Night after night, moreover, the great castle clock, which went perfectly well all day long, struck at wrong hours, and was found all wrong in the morning.

  • I dreamed about cutis oenea half the night after I came to see you.

  • Up late at night after he came, reading Scott's Commentary.

  • Work or company sometimes led him to sit up late, and this he could do night after night.

  • Night after night--day after day I plead with God to provide for those three.

  • I'll do it to-night after I go home, but not before.

  • Night after night I've lived with you in our little cottage, only to wake and find it a damnable mockery, with nothing but the dull grind of life before me.

  • Night after night I found the scene rivet my attention and keep me awake in bed with all manner of quaint imaginations.

  • Night after night he returned to the battle, but with no permanent success.

  • Night after night he came pale and worn from the conflict, found his grandmother and Shargar composed, and in the quietness of despair sat down beside them to his Latin version.

  • Night after night he returned to the parlour cold to the very heart.

  • Night after night in some drinking room in some part of London or other is a beery audience told-- "Creeping where no life doth be, A rare old plant is the lively flea.

  • From that night onwards the cat always sat, night after night, in the same place, and Henry liked its companionship.

  • It was thus that he dragged his feet up the boarding-house stairs to his skylight room, night after night, carrying the two heartless fardels, Hope and Memory.

  • Night after night, and steadily travelling westward, Lutra took short cuts across country from pool to pool.

  • Night after night, the cubs, sometimes under the protection of both their parents, and sometimes under the protection of only the dam, roamed through the by-ways of the countryside.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "night after" 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:
    black flag; country store; eight minutes; far west; hardy annual; high percentage; magnitude stars; melted state; metallic iron; night after; night and; night attack; night before; night comes; night duty; night fell; night home; night school; night when; night work; peace treaty; poor fellows; rustling sound; shows itself; singing bird; white blood