wee hours
Example Sentences
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We checked into our hotel during the wee hours of the morning, all of us tired, slightly unkempt and desperately in need of a warm shower.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 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
Eventually, in the wee hours, they returned to their rooms and slept—some peacefully, some fitfully.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
