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Example sentences for "late afternoon"

  • Father and daughter, out they stepped into the golden, late afternoon.

  • In the wintry, late afternoon, when the battle thunders were lessening, Major John Pelham came by and looked at Rockbridge.

  • The frightful day wore on to late afternoon.

  • A very few needlelike spicules develop along the stem, crowned by the large striking lemon-colored flowers with orange-red centers, nearly three inches long and as broad, opening in the morning and folding up in late afternoon.

  • The large blossoms, two and one-half inches long and as broad, come forth in early June, spreading wide open in the forenoon and closing in late afternoon.

  • In lovely contrast appear the beautiful large purple blossoms, three inches long and with as great a spread when fully expanded in April or May, opening but once, then closing in late afternoon never to open again.

  • It's late afternoon by the time we're settled, so Dad makes a campfire and Mother cooks our dinner over the flames.

  • They all run ahead and, with Sally and Alice, reach their side of the forest by late afternoon.

  • It had been raining all day, and here it was now, late afternoon.

  • In late afternoon, Smith abruptly ordered Hall to land his remaining units on a new beach on the northeast tip of the island at 1745 and work west towards Shoup’s ragged lines.

  • The LVTs landed their guns intact by late afternoon.

  • By late afternoon, he decided to pull back his thin lines and consolidate.

  • The length of time spent under cover varied; most turtles had two daily periods of activity, the second beginning in late afternoon.

  • The commonest retreats used by box turtles to escape heat were burrows of other animals and small dens under thick limestone rocks, where the air remained cool, even in late afternoon.

  • Now, in late afternoon, when I opened my eyes in the little gorge, the soft green vibrations merged insensibly with the longer waves of the doves' voices and with the dying odor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "late afternoon" 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:
    animated nature; been taken; for thy; fore wings; good fresh; history and; late been; late father; late hour; late lord; late summer; later chapters; later days; later life; later period; later periods; later stage; later works; later years; lateral line; not only; past ten; sound judgment; spent much; thirteen miles; usually sufficient