Word Finder - afternoon

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The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.

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The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.

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A party or social event held in the afternoon.

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(more often in the plural) In the afternoon.

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Clipping of good afternoon.

Toward four o'clock in the afternoon Murat's troops were entering Moscow.

In the afternoon there were to be games and races.

They usually spent the morning hours in the garden and the afternoon at the pool.

The afternoon sun was high in the sky, baking the revelers in summer warmth as they clustered around the intersection of Sixth and Main Street, the site of the infamous water fight.

In the afternoon they all went to a great field outside the city gates where the games were to be held.

The afternoon dragged on.

It was a warm afternoon in August.

It was in the middle of the afternoon, but the skies were dark grey.

The afternoon was half gone, and the trouble was growing.

He left early each Friday afternoon, often returning late on Monday morning.

She checked the clock on the nightstand then the notepad listing the time of the flight she'd booked the afternoon before after exploring the mansion.

It was one of several long distance conversations that afternoon, and evening.

Mr. Keith comes every afternoon at four o'clock, and gives me a "friendly lift" over the rough stretches of road, over which every student must go.

It was a hot afternoon, and she had thrown a light cotton sundress over her swimsuit.

She emerged into the bright light of a warm December afternoon and began to melt.

They let us go off by ourselves for the whole afternoon while they messed around.

She didn't see Damian until afternoon, when he strolled into the library from sparring, ear to a cell phone.

It was only two thirty in the afternoon, but she didn't want to go back to sleep.

Dean asked, as he shaded his eyes from the late afternoon sun.

Jake Weller presented it to Dean one sunny afternoon while the two were sharing a diet-breaking ice cream on the stoop of a Seventh Avenue candy store.

Before two o'clock in the afternoon the Rostovs' four carriages, packed full and with the horses harnessed, stood at the front door.

I'm not having a good afternoon.

I foresee a day when, on a Sunday afternoon, a family might drive (or actually be driven by their car) out to a farm to see where food comes from.

After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free.

One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him.

Have a good afternoon.

It was afternoon in Maryland, where Hannah was.

Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."

If you don't like the weather, hang around until this afternoon.

Dad had a heart attack this afternoon.

They rode into Ashley in the late afternoon.

They finally arrived in Springtown in the early afternoon.

They could argue like this all afternoon.

I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

None of us felt the excitement of the afternoon.

Now at least Betsy and I had time together before I returned to New York Sunday afternoon.

It was with much anticipation we drove north on another Friday afternoon.

It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of time to kill as Howie wasn't schedule to return to the house until late afternoon.

I watched her all afternoon.

Quinn set Howie up for late the prior afternoon at Mr. Cooms' home.

No. My stuff won't get here until tomorrow afternoon.

She even visited Martha and Claire with Molly each afternoon.

It was a warm late afternoon as I stood out on the sidewalk and looked up at the six massive columns towering above another busy and impressive train station.

His look was intense, much different than the warmth he'd displayed earlier that afternoon.

How about we go into Montrose this afternoon and buy a real suitcase?

Dean breathed deeply as he watched the late afternoon sun filter through the curtains.

They paused on the front porch, taking off their boots and shaking their clothes in the afternoon sun.

Dean arranged to pick up Jennifer Radisson at her hotel later that afternoon, after the parade and the water fight.

Fred patted him on the back and apologized on behalf of his friends who spent the afternoon in the court house attending Fred's jury session.

Supper was picked-at leftovers, and neither felt like socializing with Bird Song's guests, who came and went on their own, without their usual afternoon goodies and conversation.