after dark
Example Sentences
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Fire offered many advantages, including warmth, protection from predators, light after dark, and eventually the ability to cook food.
From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026
Her garden also includes feeding stations designed to support the nocturnal creatures, which are most active after dark.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026
He said that he, like many others, avoids the area after dark, fearing it is haunted.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
They’ve opened studios and galleries alongside the stationery store, coffee shops, tea cocktail lounges, fusion restaurants and destination bars that come fully to life only after dark.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The gnome found me after dark when I stopped by the side of the road to rest.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
