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

Shortly after picking up our dinner at Joan’s on Third, my friend started asking Lynda questions — first light questions like “Where are you from?” and “What do you do?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

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

“Take him away and secure him. At first light, the search will begin.”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks