first light
Example Sentences
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The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh's Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
The first light also sets an internal timer for melatonin to be produced again 14 hours later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
Nonetheless, we take a page out of Hemingway’s book and leave The Mira “as soon after first light as possible.”
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
The Coast Guard Cutter Sea Otter crew will remain on scene overnight to continue the search, and helicopter crews were set to rejoin the effort at first light, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
They traveled endlessly, it seemed, stopping only when it became too dark to see, and starting again at first light.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
