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How to use sundown in a sentence

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She's lighting the Chanukah candles for those of us who can't get home by sundown.
Unless he could free the doomed lummox beneath him by sundown, he'd be on the south end of more drunken wagers than either man could count.
We relished that sundown for hours afterwards, when we lay in our berths, letting the train's gentle rocks lull us into safe slumber.
Bandits and other miscreants roamed the dirt track after sundown, waiting for a horseman to come along so they could ambush him.
In the depths of night on Mars, however, fine particles quickly become cold as temperatures plunge after sundown.
Toward sundown, the bridge was at last completed and the bowmen hurried over.
Starting bright and early in the morning, he guaranteed to have you up for your first solo by sundown.
At this meeting, Quentin orders his sister's boyfriend to leave town by sundown, and threatens to kill him if he stays.
Beaver are nocturnal and often begin their activities shortly after sundown.
While it may seem to make sense to work cattle after sundown, wait until the cattle have had at least six hours of night cooling before working.
During the mid-day heat the animals take a siesta, so much of the wildlife activity takes place around daybreak and sundown.
Even less-observant Muslims fast seriously from sunup to sundown despite the tropical heat.
Without the alchemy that each green leaf performs from sunup to sundown during the growing season, life simply could not be.
I go for a set of brass bells that tinkle, bringing home the sound of cows returning home at sundown.
If he had his way he'd spend his days courting and writing poetry from sunup until sundown.
It was sundown, the skies were dark orange, the temple and its worshippers glimmered in pools of light and dark.
When we arrived at a grass-thatched hut at sundown, we'd string up our hammocks and spend the night.
On the day of the holiday, Orthodox Eritreans attend an all-night church service, which begins at sundown.
During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work from sunup to sundown.
The slacklining begins at sundown, the various walkers gloriously backlit by a cliff across the Valley that shines in the last light of day.
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There came a burst of afternoon westerlies which blew small hurricanes from noon to sundown.
Not long 'fore sundown dey give evvy slave chile a wooden bowl of buttermilk and cornpone and a wooden spoon to eat it wid.
Captain Nansen led Everett to his cot and gave him fizzy salts, but it was not until sundown that the trembling and nausea ceased.
We arrived in Fort William at sundown, and a flag was flying above the courtyard.
About sundown a keelboat came down the river and landed, bearing three dead bodies and several wounded.
About sundown he took in his decoy Hen, as Owls were abundant, and went back to his camp.
Nearly every evening, near sundown, I see a pair of wild pigeons homing toward the crest of Apo.
At sundown of the second day he began to complain of the irksomeness of his bonds.
A couple of hours before sundown, the old fellow looked in at the inn for his usual glass of cachaca.
Then the thunder of its roaring subsided by degrees and by sundown the cloudburst was past.
At sundown the sandhill crane may sometimes be surprised, standing like a silhouette by the shore of a grassy island.
It was nearing sundown when Kingozi emerged from his tent and gave the signal to move.
It was nearly sundown, and I concluded that they intended to encamp for the night.
We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.
The skipjack proved speedy and they made the run back to the hotel in good time, arriving there before sundown.
Coming to the valley of the spearfish I halted and slept my command until sundown, and then started for our lines.
When the corn all done been shucked they'd drink the likker the marsters give 'em and then frolic and dance from sundown to sunup.
He stabled Rosina at sundown, and went in to sneak a well-earned glass of hard cider past Martha's teetotaling eye.
By sundown they reached one of the eastern arms of Moosehead Lake, and built a-temporary lean-to among the rocks and trees.
An hour after sundown they carried the bier on which her coffin rested into the chapel.
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