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nighttime

noun as in darkness

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A nighttime curfew that was imposed a few weeks ago seems barely enforced now—no doubt to the relief of the women at the Ramada.

The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.

A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.

“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

It was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.

I scouted round a little, and soon found that, at nighttime, there were but one man and a woman about the place.

And the forest lay very still and solemn and dark in the silence of the nighttime.

She followed him wherever he went, to examine this and consider that in the nighttime.

He had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court.

Evading the guards, in the nighttime while all were asleep, he blew the Pertonwaithe palace into atoms.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nighttime, such as: bedtime, dusk, midnight, night, and nightfall.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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