When nightfall came, we were still waiting for the electricity to come back on.
since you aren't taking a flashlight, make sure you're back at camp by nightfall
Recent Examples on the WebBy nightfall, the street was crowded with apparently hot merchandise: carbon-monoxide detectors, Leviton tamper-resistant outlets, and, notably, hundreds of heavy spools of copper and electrical wiring, the most expensive of which can retail for more than seven hundred dollars.—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 Starters can be in the rotation one day and in Oklahoma City by nightfall.—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024 Even well after nightfall, gunbattles continued in some locations.—TIME, 7 Oct. 2023 There could be a brief gap in new snowfall Monday, but by nightfall and continuing into Tuesday, more snow could fall, mostly concentrated over the Sierra north of Highway 50.—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024 Clouds moved in and by nightfall intermittent flurries were dropping snow on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where people had been sunbathing only hours before.—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024 This year’s observation begins the evening of May 5 and ends at nightfall on May 6.—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2024 The weather service forecasts 1 to 3 inches of rain for New England by nightfall Tuesday.—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024 Intuitive Machines anticipates just a week of operations on the moon for the solar-powered lander, before lunar nightfall hits.—Marcia Dunn The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024
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