Sentence examples for familiar night from inspiring English sources
Fiona recognizes the familiar night sounds of crickets, a barred owl, a mockingbird.
Think worms -- not the familiar night crawler, that soil-aerating, fish-baiting friend, but its feistier cousin.
Applause drew time from trending pause when, hands grown sore, each leaned to his companion, said some words of praise, and emptied into the warm, familiar night, while he, washed pale of his trade's disguise, escaped the watchers through an unknown door, entered the craft that bore him home.
For much of the year, which lasts five hundred and fifty Earth years, the three stars appear close together in the sky, giving the planet "a familiar night side and day side, with a unique triple sunset and sunrise each day," Kevin Wagner, one of the discoverers, remarked at the time.
While it may look like some domestic version of "The Matrix" -- families sharing a common space, but plugged into entirely separate planes of existence through technology -- a scene like this has become an increasingly familiar evening ritual.
Participants were asked to rate English word items on a scale of 1 7: response categories ranged from very unfamiliar (1) to very familiar (7).
The combination of estimates that were too high and material that was too familiar made last night's sale of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's a rocky evening, as second-rate paintings by Picasso, van Gogh and Miró failed to sell.
The annual British bid to take Flushing Meadows by storm ended with a familiar whimper last night as both Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski were knocked out of the US Open in the third round.
Manhattan's brilliantly lighted skyline -- normally subdued in the summer with many residents on vacation -- was strangely dark in its most familiar pinnacles last night as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center shut off their self-illuminating tower lights to save power.
But even theatergoers who have never seen a sari or eaten papadum are likely to find "Bombay Dreams" as familiar as this morning's breakfast.
The Rangers found themselves in an all-too-familiar position this afternoon: clinging to a one-goal lead in the third period like a prizefighter trying to survive the final round of a championship bout.
