wee hours
Example Sentences
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The Daily Monitor said on X that the newspaper and its fellow outlets were ordered to close "in a crackdown during the wee hours of Sunday".
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
Some people, like Anna Shilanski, are choosing to spend their nights underground to avoid having to wake up and rush downstairs when air raid sirens wail in the wee hours.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Nor do they park their cars to obstruct law-enforcement operations or gather outside hotels in the wee hours to chant and bang drums because those hotels rented rooms to ICE agents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Second, it could shape what lessons other countries—friends and foes—take from Operation Absolute Resolve, the quite large and impressive military action that unfolded in the wee hours on Saturday.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026
Could the cannon shot announcing her death have come in the wee hours of the morning when even my good ear was too broken to pick it up?
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
