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
What the folklore says is that the vampire must return to its grave before first light.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
As far as the science images goes, I thought the first light image which we have in detail that has never been published before is in there.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024
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
