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Example sentences for "the evening"

  • The Fire Later on in the evening a traveler's horse was brought in by the second hostler, and while he was cleaning him a young man with a pipe in his mouth lounged into the stable to gossip.

  • The Golden Rule Two or three weeks after this, as we came into the yard rather late in the evening, Polly came running across the road with the lantern (she always brought it to him if it was not very wet).

  • I had now most of the evening work, as I was well accustomed to standing, and Jerry was also more afraid of Hotspur taking cold.

  • On the evening of the New Year we had to take two gentlemen to a house in one of the West End Squares.

  • As soon as I was old enough to eat grass my mother used to go out to work in the daytime, and come back in the evening.

  • At last, at five o'clock in the evening, loaded with our riches, we quitted the shore, and half an hour after we hailed the Nautilus.

  • At six o'clock in the evening we had regained the shore; our boat was moored to the usual place.

  • The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having taken half a dozen cutlets, destined to furnish us with a grilled repast in the evening.

  • The collision of the frigate with the cetacean had occurred about eleven o'clock in the evening before.

  • At ten minutes to eleven in the evening, the electric light reappeared three miles to windward of the frigate, as pure, as intense as during the preceding night.

  • The evening is drawing on, mother," she said.

  • Somebody has asked me to meet him, either on the Budmouth Road at noon today, or in the evening at Mr. Farfrae's.

  • Though he examined and inquired, and walked hither and thither day after day, no such characters as those he described had anywhere been seen since the evening of the fair.

  • At half past eight in the evening we stepped into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen--one hundred and forty-six miles.

  • That lofty green eminence and its quaint coronet form quite a striking picture, you may be sure, in the flush of the evening sun.

  • All summer long the tourists flock to that church about six o'clock in the evening, and pay their franc, and listen to the noise.

  • Then you take the train for New York in the evening, and the steamer for San Francisco next morning?

  • This was done--about half past ten in the evening.

  • Each little family group had had its say and exchanged its domestic gossip earlier in the evening.

  • But they ate and they drank when they regained Edna's little dining-room--which was comparatively early in the evening.

  • She took from the back of her chair a white silken scarf, with which she had covered her shoulders in the early part of the evening.

  • The principal chain of the Vindhias was crossed by eight in the evening, and another halt was made on the northern slope, in a ruined bungalow.

  • Last Friday at eight o'clock in the evening, Monsieur Fogg came home from his club, and three-quarters of an hour afterwards we were off.

  • In the evening he called at a carter's, a man from his village, to spend the night at his house.

  • He was given bread everywhere, and sometimes he was asked to sit down to the evening meal.

  • The train left at seven in the evening, giving him time for an early dinner before leaving.

  • He had seen in the evening before he went to bed a knife and an axe.

  • Isabella smiled incredulously and talked the rest of the evening to James.

  • Mrs. Walker's party took place on the evening of the third day, and, in spite of the frigidity of his last interview with the hostess, Winterbourne was among the guests.

  • He sits with them in the garden in the evening.

  • She sat with him in the adjoining room, in the embrasure of the window, for the rest of the evening.

  • The evening came, and the dressing-bell for dinner rang, before Mr. Franklin returned from Frizinghall.

  • My head was as red as a lobster; but, in other respects, I was as nicely dressed for the ceremonies of the evening as a man need be.

  • He accepted my mistress's invitation, from the Wednesday of the birthday to the evening of Friday--when his duties to the Ladies' Charities would oblige him to return to town.

  • It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extremely merry all day long.

  • Her spirits still continued very high; but there was a flutter in them which prevented their giving much pleasure to her sister, and this agitation increased as the evening drew on.

  • The promise was readily given, and Willoughby's behaviour during the whole of the evening declared at once his affection and happiness.

  • In the evening, as Marianne was discovered to be musical, she was invited to play.

  • The next day, which was Friday, we got them all together, and met in the evening to pack.

  • As an example of how utterly oblivious a pair of towers can be to their work, George told us, later on in the evening, when we were discussing the subject after supper, of a very curious instance.

  • Had someone concealed himself in the study earlier in the evening--and I am convinced that it offers no hiding-place--he could only have come out again by passing through here.

  • He had taken the bearings of the place earlier in the evening, and from the light in a window on the ground floor had located the study; so he set out to look for the door.

  • And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

  • And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes.

  • And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

  • You are not required to be at home in the evening, are you?

  • The first day I got pretty tired wandering about, and strayed into a church in the evening, not knowing where else to go.

  • At an early hour in the evening, he paused before an imposing residence on Fifth Avenue, which he had seen but not entered the day previous.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the evening" 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:
    the breadth; the children; the end; the fountain; the heat; the men; the other; the river; the supreme; the third; the vale; the wine; thee and; thee have; then applied; then began; then give; then occupied; then perhaps; then ready for use; then sprinkle; then verily; then will; there being; these things; they shall