Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "late-night".
But as Dioniso took a late-night stroll to clear the final brushstrokes of Princess Prune from his head, he witnessed an affecting moonlit scene in the private royal garden.
In addition to that, their late-night visitor needed to know that Gitana was not only under his protection, but was also his mate.
In the rush of my late-night prowlings with Jimmy Moore and his entourage, of my society functions, of my mentorship with Prescott, of my sexual obsession with Veronica, of my work and play with the Bishop brothers, of this new life that had seemingly been granted me, in the midst of it all I had lost my resentment for a while.
The last of the late-night girls were trooping toward the subway station, already anomalous in their microskirts, hot pants, and full-body tattoos.
Bryson had arrived by rail, at the Gare du Nord, and had grabbed a quick late-night dinner of soggy moules et frites and watery pilsener at a snack bar on the way.
He never left it on a residential street, understanding the insomnia of the elderly and the late-night revels of the young.
It had won a late-night Battle of the Sounds contest for four nights running on one Detroit soul station.
The statehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, is rocked during a late-night legislative session.
Bridget Boone, in whose room a lot of the 16 and Unders used to congregate before lights-out, invited me to consider a couple of late-night bongs, as a kind of psychodysleptic Sominex, to help me sleep, perhaps, finally, all the way through a really unpleasant dream that had been recurring nightly and waking me up in medias for weeks and was beginning to grind me down and to cause some slight deterioration in performance and rank.
The judges rotate being on call to sign late-night warrants and put out any fires that might arise.
Among those joining the House and Senate leaders in the late-night festivities were key aides to Gov.
Internet tended to capture the imaginations of FM disc jockeys, sports announcers, and late-night comedians.
The offerings of half a dozen different narrownets danced in the air around him: Gamers to his left, four different sessions played out in as many different venues, three old, pretaped, the fourth a late-night session that had dragged on into the morning.
Among those joining the House and Senate leaders in the late-night festivities were key aides to Gov. Bob Martinez.
It boasted three paved streets, twenty new homes, a half-acre of irrigated grass as park and playground, a general store and late-night grille, a fitness and recreation hall with a first-class minitheater, and the Family Center - one wing of which was a health clinic, and the other a day-care facility.