dark hours
Example Sentences
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Ireland, his mother and her pet pit bull, Sarah, have been living out of her 2007 Toyota Camry since the quake jolted them awake in the early dark hours of Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022
Malow said essential workers and students are the most vulnerable to health and sleep problems, and warned that the time shift means people may be waking up to commute in dark hours.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
In the dark hours past midnight recently, several groups of men set out over the mountain’s jagged, gravel-coated slopes as the lights of El Paso twinkled in the distance.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2021
It later emerged that a military police officer had stopped him riding a bicycle in the dark hours after Nicky Verstappen's body had been found.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2020
The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
