Word Finder - evening

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The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.

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The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

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A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

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It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

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A party or gathering held in the evening.

That evening all the women got together to wrap gifts.

I guess the evening was a little cold?

It has been a delightful evening, has it not?

He didn't comment, but several times that evening she caught him watching her with a reflective expression.

That evening Alex and Dulce were standing in the entrance room.

The evening sun made eerie shapes in the forested landscape.

Have a nice evening.

If you want to walk this late in the evening, you need to make sure I'm with you.

What kind of an evening did he have planned?

Since they all lived in the same apartment complex, and the evening was early, Adrienne invited them to her apartment for a cup of coffee.

Late one evening he came to a little farmhouse in a lonely valley.

I'm going to go to the house this evening and get a few things.

You could drop Molly and me off at Logan airport for the ten o'clock flight to California, be in Philadelphia by early evening, and fly out to join us the next morning.

You're quiet this evening.

In the evening, when it is cool and pleasant, we would walk in the yard, and catch the grasshoppers and butterflies.

The questions plagued her until one evening when the black car returned.

She stayed around the house, propping her foot up whenever she sat down, and by evening it was only a little sore.

Mr. Munsell spent last Sunday evening with us.

One evening, when Tammy was in bed and the three of them were relaxing in the family room, the telephone rang.

When Alex came home that evening, Carmen told him about it.

We decided to take the evening off and have a nice meal in Boston.

In the evening a wind from the northeast sprang up, and the flakes rushed hither and thither in furious melee.

Or perchance, at evening, I hear him in his stable blowing off the superfluous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and brain for a few hours of iron slumber.

It was hazy and cool, like a beach after the evening fog rolled in.

Edith was as nervous as the prior evening, glancing across the hall at her son, as if danger lurked in every corner of Bird Song.

The next evening after the trial the little girl begged Ozma to allow her to look in the enchanted picture, and the Princess readily consented.

May each evening see that all thy wishes have been performed.

Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.

Later that evening when Simonides was at a banquet with Scopas, he got word that two young men were outside looking for him.

Regularly at half-past seven, in one part of the summer, after the evening train had gone by, the whip-poor-wills chanted their vespers for half an hour, sitting on a stump by my door, or upon the ridge-pole of the house.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.

Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea!

Each day fleecy clouds floated across the sky and occasionally veiled the sun, but toward evening the sky cleared again and the sun set in reddish-brown mist.

He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life.

On the evening of October 11 Seslavin came to the Aristovo headquarters with a French guardsman he had captured.

Alex got a relief when the conversation turned to something else and stayed there for the rest of the evening.

A tall young man tapped his shoulder and Alex surrendered her to the second dance of the evening.

Alex, why were you with Tessa all evening?

I sure hope you're going to deliver what you've been promising all evening.

A long train whistle sounded several times, adding to the dark mood of the evening.

Their kisses were usually shared after dark, but as the season progressed, that was getting later in the evening.

Cassie cooked rabbit and dumplings for supper that evening.

I eat breakfast at six in the morning and supper at six in the evening.

I didn't notice how far I was wandering this evening.

You shouldn't be cooped up with a sour old man every evening.

Besides, I like coming home to a quiet house every evening.

Their repartee set the tone for the evening.

Martha would talk to Quinn... to grease the skids... as she put it, and have him telephone me the following evening.