after dark
Example Sentences
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He found a city rebuilding itself: a functioning airport, paved roads some lined with restaurants and street lighting keeping once-feared neighbourhoods alight after dark.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules that absorbed energy from sunlight during the day release that excess energy as light after dark.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
It was well after dark when Manguillier found Anthony Empson’s wedding ring off Île aux Cerfs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
They’ve opened studios and galleries alongside the stationery store, coffee shops, tea cocktail lounges, fusion restaurants and destination bars that come fully to life only after dark.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
From merely stealing drinks from private fountains after dark, Boots became bolder.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
