Example Sentences

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It had been evening when she crossed into the woods from the park.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

If it had been evening we should have been glad to camp there.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

The yellow horn of the moon had appeared silently and as if suddenly over the black horns of the seaweed, seeming to announce as night something which till then had been evening.

From The Trees of Pride by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

It had been evening when I dropped from the clouds, but the mist kept the light very white though rather dim.

From The Man from the Clouds by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)