Sentence examples for nightfall with from inspiring English sources

It was unclear whether fighting had completely ended by nightfall, with varying accounts from officials.

Up to 30 fighters on both sides had been killed by nightfall, with the battle expected to rage throughout the weekend.

Then the allied advance began, and it continued until nightfall, with Prussian cavalrymen lancing French soldiers in the back as they retreated.Did Wellington outwit Napoleon,as well as winning the battle?

Most wealthy Dominicans have backup generators to provide electricity when the lights go out, transforming Santo Domingo into a crazy-quilt upon nightfall with leafier districts brightly lit up while most of the city smolders in the dark.

By quoting on his first page the opening phrase of Ulysses ("Stately, plump Buck Mulligan…") Cunningham aligns By Nightfall with Joyce, just as The Hours was aligned with Mrs Dalloway.

This domestic arrangement – two siblings "sharing" a spouse – clearly interests Cunningham, with its potential for divided loyalties and shifting alliances; it appeared in his last novel, By Nightfall, with which this new book shares many preoccupations.

This building too, which of week-days hums with industry and life, at nightfall echoes with sheer vacancy, and all through Sunday is forlorn.

Michael Cunningham's latest novel, "By Nightfall," begins with an animal sacrifice: a horse pulling a tourist carriage has been hit by a car on Broadway.

At nightfall, families with young children gathered in the city's main square to go ice skating, ride the carousel or snap pictures with Santa.

On April 27, with nightfall approaching, several journalists, armed only with their iPhones, wandered out in Baltimore.

With nightfall, the fighting died down, only to start again with even greater intensity around 1 a.m.