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sundown
[ suhn-doun ]
noun
- sunset, especially the time of sunset.
verb (used without object)
- Psychiatry. (especially of dementia patients) to experience confusion or hallucinations late in the day or at night, likely as a result of strange surroundings, drug effects, decreased sensory input, or reduction of oxygen supply to the brain.
sundown
/ ˈsʌnˌdaʊn /
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Example Sentences
Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.
But after sundown, she would enjoy what felt like a greater luxury.
This year, Jews around the world will revisit those traditions on the evening after Good Friday, when Passover begins at sundown.
Torture, some people might call it, from sundown Sunday to sundown Friday.
The tour ended without event and Conor returned to the stationhouse after sundown.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey.
Just afore sundown, she showed up, and passed me with her eyes fixed on a spot about two miles further on.
Courage, my child,” he says; “see, we have gone a great distance; to-morrow before sundown we shall descend in Belgium.
Just about sundown the stately herdsman again appeared with his motley following.
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