afternoon

Example Sentences

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Before that she'd been selling her baked goods at markets, having launched a business during the Covid pandemic delivering afternoon teas and birthday cakes.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

At 1 in the afternoon on Sunday, May 31, my husband and I heard the first fireworks.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

Wildlife officials captured the cat later that afternoon, and biologists determined it was a young and healthy male, according to a spokesperson with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Bitcoin climbed back to $60,703—still down 4.5% over the past 24 hours—by the afternoon.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The words Brie said to Teddy this afternoon come back to me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison