The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Usage examples of nighttime.

Brooks had lately advanced a theory that modern man had lost his nighttime sonar capability since the discovery of fire and the subsequent illumination of the night, or at least, Brooks supposed, something of the sort might very well have happened back at the beginning of time.

He listened to the quiet nighttime noises: the creaking of a stair down the hallway, the muffled humming of the refrigerator downstairs, the ticking of the alarm clock on the little bedside table, assorted cracks and whispers and rustles.

But where before they had confined their activities to nighttime appearances in the park, now all of a sudden they were starting to surface everywhere in Hopewell, sometimes even in daylight.

Day, the planting of time bombs in marriage license bureaus, and sudden, nighttime raids on sexually nonsegregated organizations such as the P.

He imagined Captain Waxman would not be pleased that he and Kouwe had kept hushed about the nighttime prowlers around their campsites.

Pug was sure the other slaves in the household knew of their nighttime assignations, but the proximity of people in Tsurani life had bred a certain blindness to the personal habits of others, and no one cared a great deal about the comings and goings of two slaves.

He opened the curtains and turned off all the lights, except for the lamp over his desk, and when he sat down at his typewriter, the racket of the nighttime wood sounds came to him in full force.

The afternoon wind had turned into a nighttime breeze, and I listened to the pines creaking and tried not to imagine the witch like whispers of haints perched in the branches.

Other intercepts revealed nighttime jet gunnery exercises, bombing practice, and extensive patrols.

In the daytime repression of the R-complex and in the nighttime stirring of the dream dragons, we may each of us be replaying the hundred-million-year-old warfare between the reptiles and the mammals.

In the nighttime drills, signalmen lustily flung themselves onto the rocks.

We made good time, and there was an abundance of easily killable game for food—rabbits, iguanas, armadillos—and the climate was comfortable for nighttime camping, so we did not sleep in any of the villages of the Mixe people whose territory we were then traversing.

He heard false laughter, brittle as silicon, saw groups of girls ganging up on others, cruel jests perpetrated on the weak, on the shy, on anyone who was "different," heard whispered conversations about who was the worst teacher, the nastiest teacher, the strictest teacher, the ugliest teacher, about lessons missed, tests copied, about touching oneself, about nighttime escapes, about assignations with boys waiting in the nighttime shadows just outside the abbey's walls, parties where drugs made in secret from the produce of the herb and mushroom gardens were ingested, where laaga, smuggled in from outside, was smoked.

It was here she had first plied her trade, partnered in sweaty assignations beneath the dense nighttime shadows of the ammonwood.

At one of the hearings, attorneys attempted to suppress evidence taken in the nighttime search—a search that they argued had been both unnecessary and illegal.