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eventide

[ UK /ɪvˈɛnta‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
    he enjoyed the evening light across the lake

How To Use eventide In A Sentence

  • Earth's generations pass;: To which is added an anthology from Lyrics of war and peace, Some love songs of Petrarch, To-day and yesterday, and Songs of eventide, by William Dudley Foulke OpEdNews - Diary: Make Love Not War
  • Then they would sleep, again awaking at day-dawn when they would arise and seek for spoil, according to their custom, and ransack the heaps where at times they would hit upon a silverling of five dirhams and at other times a piece of four; and at eventide they would meet to spend together the dark hours, and they would expend everything they came by every day. Arabian nights. English
  • Our population growth has slowed significantly, and the baby boomers are now in the eventide of their working life, with their eyes fixed towards retirement.
  • EVENTIDE The original company name was Eventide Clockworks, chosen by founder Richard Factor because "eventide" means "evening" and he started out by making digital clocks for DJs after hours. Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • [21] As the Jewish sabbath began at six o'clock on Friday evening, and lasted till six on Saturday evening, we may infer it was after the close of its sacred hours (at "eventide") He reached Bethany. Memories of Bethany
  • When he saw that they looked on him with eyes of affection, he inclined to them and companioned with them and took up his abode with them, flying away in the morning whither he would and returning at eventide to pass the night by side of them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He ends with a serenade to eventide among the burning ghats of the Ganges at Varanasi. Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review
  • Soon, the eventide fell and everyone retired to his or her beds.
  • Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith; and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away.
  • As they silently gazed around them, their craft sailed past the " Fragrance at Eventide " building.
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