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Example sentences for "last evening"

  • Last evening we went to the Powers's, and sat with them on the terrace, at the top of the house, till nearly ten o'clock.

  • Last evening, we went to pass the evening with Miss Blagden, who inhabits a villa at Bellosguardo, about a mile outside of the walls.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Powers called to see us last evening.

  • There was the sovereign in hand which came in last evening, as a little towards the need of Monday, when I received this morning 50l.

  • Last evening I paid out the last money to the brethren who labour in the day schools, in giving them their weekly salary.

  • He said he had considered it, and was sure of this.

  • When Rennie came to examine the design for the improvement of the Ayr navigation, of which the new harbour formed part, he took objections to it, principally because of the parallelism of the piers, and another plan was eventually adopted.

  • Abel,--beginning to suspect that he was the first to bring the news of last evening's events.

  • The lecture at the Temple of Mercury, last evening, was well attended by the elite of our great city.

  • It was now eleven o'clock, and the battle-field of last evening was as we left it.

  • In her diary she says: "Last evening as I sat on the sofa Miss Eddy put her arms around me and said, 'I am so glad I love you; I should have felt very sorry if I had not.

  • Last evening we heard the grand Ristori render a part of Dante's Inferno and a selection from Joan of Arc.

  • She answered at once: Your most surprising letter reached me last evening.

  • Last evening at Mrs. Rose's I met the daughter of Charles Bradlaugh, a talented young woman, whom the college refused to admit to botany lectures because of her father's atheism.

  • Last evening, Rebecca had a long talk with her father concerning Sir Thomas, who hath asked her of him.

  • Miss Lawrence and I had agreed, last evening, to take a little airing this forenoon.

  • I am not so happy to-day in the recollection of last evening's entertainment as I was in the enjoyment.

  • Last evening I attended a tragedy; but never will I attend another.

  • Last evening, pursuant to public notice, a large meeting assembled at National Hall, to listen to the recital of the wrongs and sufferings of the Mormons, and to devise means for the relief of their women and children.

  • Last evening we came near a shipwreck, having run near the land without knowing it, and it fell calm.

  • Not exactly a theatre-goer, uncle, though I confess I might be, were the performance always as excellent as last evening.

  • In the "genteel row" last evening, we observed the strictest religionists of the day, not excepting puritanic Presbyterians, and the sober disciples of Wesley and Fox.

  • Last evening a game of whist, with a Catholic priest to complete the party.

  • Last evening we commenced a twilight ramble which terminated at the kirk.

  • Last evening on the Cortena, he took out a little microscope to examine some parasitic flowers I had gathered from the walls of the Cathedral (all the old walls of buildings are covered with such plants).

  • Last evening, however, I did so, as we had now again no money in hand, there having come in only 10l.

  • Last evening I met with the whole little church at Stuttgart to tea, and the last hours of the year, till about 12 o’clock at night, we spent together in prayer.

  • I will wait for her,' said Klaus quickly, right out of his kind, chivalrous heart, but it brought to my mind the voice of last evening.

  • Listen, last evening I could have opened my arms and embraced the whole world from happiness.

  • Anna Maria was a perfect enigma to me; I understood the outbreak of passion of last evening as little as this decided opposition to-day.

  • Klaus's voice, thank God, had not a suspicion of that weak intonation of last evening.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "last 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:
    during those; general principles; last autumn; last camp; last come; last days; last expedition; last found; last look; last resort; last speech; last succeeded; last summer; last updated; last visit; last voyage; last week; last will; last winter; last words; last wrote; lasting peace; million times; prevent from; trespass offering; volcanic dust