wee hours
Example Sentences
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Weak and tired, Jackie was scooped up from the north shore of Big Bear Lake in the wee hours of Saturday by a team from the San Dimas Raptor Rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the wee hours of Sunday, Herambh Karmarkar’s wife received two messages from her seafarer husband, who was aboard a ship that had just safely crossed the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
News reports said some 3,500 police and soldiers took part in the operation that began in the wee hours.
From Barron's ● May 16, 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
