Sentence examples for Towards evening from inspiring English sources

Towards evening, the British withdrew, but officers of the Gordon Highlanders failed to see the galloper who waved them back, and, as darkness fell, they found themselves cut off.

Towards evening, rain streamed down heavily, abating somewhat with night.

Towards evening, the Covenanters and Parliamentarians themselves launched a surprise attack.

Towards evening, when the hyena was all dressed up, she declared, "I really feel in tip-top form.

Towards evening, we reached our hostel, which came complete with a complement of grazing yaks, a broken steam heater and wet, cold, hard mattresses.

Towards evening, as the army approached, the captives refused to flee with Boko Haram fighters, who began stoning them but then ran away.

My abiding memory of Singh, who resigned his seat through ill health in March this year, is of one evening in 1998 towards midnight in the House of Commons library a few months after he had been elected.

Summers here are warm, the sea temperature refreshing rather than cold, and the long evenings stretch themselves out towards midnight.

Mulato II, even under well-watered conditions, showed an increase of leaf rolling towards noon (Fig.  3C and D).

The clock hand had first moved towards midnight in 1949.

The train pulls out of Penzance towards midnight.