The time of day immediately following sunset

Usage examples of nightfall.

By the time everyone was settled in and had eaten a cold repast of bannock and sliced mutton, it was well past nightfall.

Maerad and Cadvan agreed to keep quiet about Barding, and Maerad had no lessons the next nightfall.

With nightfall the full weight of his responsibility fell across his back like a leaden yoke, and try as he might, Brine could not shrug it off.

In those days, so long ago, a small child was still carried away every so often by a night-hunting puma, and even the beautiful ocelot and tiny margay appeared ferocious after nightfall.

The beauty of this special nightfall filled Tau with peace, marred only by brilliant fireballs and the thunder of explosions nearby.

They left two days later but mistimed their departure and had to cool their heels in the mouth of the cavern until nightfall.

All that day we blundered on, thrashing the weary cattle that at every halt tried to lie down, and by nightfall came to the outspan near to the house called the Temple, where we had met the Kaffirs returning from the diamond fields.

The French troops had not stopped in Frasnes, but were marching doggedly on towards Sharpe who supposed that their orders were to seize the crossroads at Quatre Bras before nightfall.

Vexed at this air of indifference I rose early in the morning and went out, not returning till nightfall.

Albert Routh, a little man of baffled hopes and cheated appetites, hurried down the lane near Milton Porcorum, he never dreamed that by nightfall he would be the most pursued and sought-for man in all England.

The shallop came alongside at nightfall with the rest of the explorers--the tide being out--bringing a lot of Indian things, baskets, pottery, wicker-ware, etc.

The pen flew, carrying with it all the sensibility of the intellectual man who had completely forgotten Madame Steno, Gorka, Maitland, and the calumniated Contessina, until he should awake from his lucid intoxication at nightfall.

But after nightfall Tanton Gardens was a lonely and gloomy place, lighted only by one lamp, which stood in the high road more to mark the entrance to the street than as a guide to traffic along it, for its rays barely penetrated beyond the first pair of chestnut trees.

At nightfall the lighthouse on Graciosa began blinking its signal, and the navigating lights of the trimaran showed that she was overtaking us.

Coming towards nightfall to a small inn in a lonely unpopulated countryside, we found that the only accommodation the inn afforded was one double-bedded room, and there was no other inn for at least ten miles.