after dark

Example Sentences

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Fire offered many advantages, including warmth, protection from predators, light after dark, and eventually the ability to cook food.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

He said that he, like many others, avoids the area after dark, fearing it is haunted.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Let’s say you roll into Grants, N.M., after dark on Route 66 and wind up at the South West Motel, hoping for a $75 room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Sure enough, the Taliban launched Chinese-made rockets at the base after dark, planted there, we were told, by farmers who had been either bribed or coerced into doing so.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

“He said, ‘If you’d obeyed me, as you should, you wouldn’t have been out in the Big Woods after dark, and you wouldn’t have been scared by a screech-owl.’”

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder