Word Finder - night

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The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

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How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?

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(Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

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(Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

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An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

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a night on the town

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A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.

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I stayed my friend's house for three nights.

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Nightfall.

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from noon till night

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Darkness (due to it being nighttime).

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The cat disappeared into the night.

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A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

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A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

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To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

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Ellipsis of good night

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Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!

That night... was Dad's birthday.

The night was calm and fresh.

The night air smelled of honeysuckle and pulsed with the sound of crickets.

They are resting there for the night and have no fear of danger from us.

I can pick you up at the hospital after work and we can spend the night up there.

I'm very certain, Oz, that you gave me the best brains in the world, for I can think with them day and night, when all other brains are fast asleep.

Every day the earth heats and cools as night turns into day and back into night.

The night was dark and damp.

I know I'm mostly to blame for last night, but I'm not here to entertain you.

That night Adrienne slept in the guestroom and Brandon slept in his old room.

Night came on before he had finished it.

How many times have I told you not to leave the house at night in your bare feet?

Lamplighters used to light street lamps every night, before the accursed electricity came along.

In her room that night, she wrote a letter to Connie explaining what she had observed.

Howard had insisted on picking up his little sister that night for safety reasons.

That night, for the first time in more than a week, she tossed and turned in the bed, her sleep interrupted by memories of her family.

Mom always used to want everyone home before dark – as though anything was out there at night that wasn't there during the day.

Its cool year-round creek and rolling hills dotted with wild flowers filled her dreams at night – beckoned.

As she listened to it she saw before her his smooth handsome forehead, his mustache, and his whole face, as she had so often seen it in the stillness of the night when he slept.

That night as they prepared for bed, she approached Alex about it.

It looks like I'll have to accept your invitation to spend the night, but I'll pay you as soon as I get my things.

Hadn't they covered this the night they showed him the picture?

An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad.

Terenty, when he had helped him undress and wished him good night, often lingered with his master's boots in his hands and clothes over his arm, to see whether he would not start a talk.

I told Morino last night that I would look at them before we left.

When the bed sagged on the other side, she realized the sound was Alex changing into his night clothes.

Roxanne's house was within walking distance and the night was balmy.

The evening was ending, but the night had not yet come.

She did not understand why he spoke with such admiration and delight of the farming of the thrifty and well- to-do peasant Matthew Ermishin, who with his family had carted corn all night; or of the fact that his (Nicholas') sheaves were already stacked before anyone else had his harvest in.

I'll lend you one of my night gowns and find some clothes for you to wear in the morning.

I feel like I had a meltdown last night.

They beat the tattoo, called the roll, had supper, and settled down round the fires for the night--some repairing their footgear, some smoking pipes, and some stripping themselves naked to steam the lice out of their shirts.

She let the conversation drop that night, but early the next morning Dulce caught him in the hallway and it was clear that she didn't think anything was settled.

By that time she was hungry and decided to make a deal with the night shift.

Alex was sitting in their room the last night they were at the hacienda.

Don't you girls know how dangerous it is to be walking at night around here?

Sofia gazed out the window, mulling over the night.

Then, on Christmas morning when everyone is awake, we lounge around in our night clothes while we open presents.

She'll wake up in the middle of the night, wide awake.

The night air was chilly on her bare arms and she shivered involuntarily, annoyed at herself because it looked like an obvious ploy.

We're going to stay here for the night.

Down by the pond, frogs were singing their night songs and the sky was filled with bright stars.

He wanted to lose himself in her warmth and liveliness on his last night.

That was two for one night at McGinchy's tavern.

She is restless at night and has no appetite.

The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.

The Rostov party spent the night at Mytishchi, fourteen miles from Moscow.

Such a pleasant day and evening should have ended with a restful night and happy dreams, but it didn't.

Or maybe he was thinking about their conversation last night.

That night after Jonathan was in bed, Carmen turned to Alex.