wee small hours
Example Sentences
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Yet many lights are used in ways — unshielded and shining into the sky, blazing over empty parking lots through the wee small hours — that serve little purpose.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
"On nights you stay in Wellington, you're probably still going to be up at daybreak and then maybe working to the wee small hours."
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2023
Whether you're reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it's 100 seconds to midnight.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2020
The new hourlong documentary “Nightshift” profiles a baker, a janitor and other Angelenos who ply their respective trades well into the wee small hours.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2019
They generally closed with a supper toward the wee small hours, and the good nights were not spoken until about two in the morning.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
