Sentence examples for evening descended from inspiring English sources

Last night, as evening descended on the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center moments after the winner was announced, visitors stood before the model of the original Reflecting Absence.

When the afternoon light faded and the evening descended on Karlshamn, everyone gathered at an adjacent bar for a night of beers, chiptune and tobacco, swapping cards and phone numbers, and generally talking good-natured bollocks into the early hours, before getting on the train and heading to the Nordic Game Conference in the morning.

As evening descended, after about 50 protesters refused to move from an intersection, the polar bear ended the night in handcuffs: The bear, paws ready to be cuffed, considered telling police that the trick's on them, he's a man in a suit, really, and they they can't take him to animal jail, he's too beautiful for that.

Dozens of shops and cars were set ablaze as evening descended.

"At the beginning, my paintings really troubled people," he said, sipping a glass of tea as evening descended outside.

West residents raced around town, shouting over the sirens in search of lost family as evening descended and helicopters circled.

As evening descends on Porto-Vecchio, I slip into the village's old streets and watch the village transform into Corsica's night-life mecca.

To start your hopefully Taser-free evening, descend into Sherpa & Yeti's (320 South Main Street; 970-547-9299; www.sherpaandyetis.com), a basement club that's known as much for the bands who have played there (North Mississippi Allstars, DJ Logic), as for the acts who canceled (RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard).

As evening descends on Athens, life continues on for most in the city: families walk to tavernas for dinner, tourists pass by on their way to the Acropolis.

On a phenomenal forced march it covered eighty-five mines in one night and day, and in late afternoon descended upon the only other possible ferry crossing in the vicinity, at Chou P'ing Fort.

Heads of state, royalty, rock stars and 25,000 members of the British public last night descended on a transformed industrial wasteland to celebrate the opening of the 2012 Olympics.