wee hours
Example Sentences
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The Daily Monitor said on X that the newspaper and its fellow outlets were ordered to close "in a crackdown during the wee hours of Sunday".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Earlier, in the wee hours of Sunday, the US space agency published an image taken by the Artemis crew, showing a distant Moon with the Orientale basin visible.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
We checked into our hotel during the wee hours of the morning, all of us tired, slightly unkempt and desperately in need of a warm shower.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
After beating Mexico on Monday, the Americans stayed in their clubhouse chatting until the wee hours of the morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Eventually, in the wee hours, they returned to their rooms and slept—some peacefully, some fitfully.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
