first light
Example Sentences
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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
Search teams gathered from first light and are scouring the banks of the river from the ford between Bolton and Abberwick, all the way to the sea at Alnmouth.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
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
At first light, he got up and quietly scrubbed away the mud Jen had tracked in and up the stairs.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
