EVENING in a Sentence

Learn EVENING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

359 example sentences for EVENING, such as:

1. Drop around one evening next week.
2. College evening classes cost a bundle.
3. The rain will continue into the evening.
4. Take extra care on the roads this evening.
5. She looked incredibly sexy in a black evening gown.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVENING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
evening
 n.  the time at the end of the day, usually from 6 p.m. to bedtime
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That very evening I moved my things round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sherlock Holmes followed me with several boxes and portmanteaus.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  The old crone drew out an evening paper, and pointed at our advertisement.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
4  They had been seen together at Euston Station about half-past eight on the evening of the third.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making enquiries entirely without avail.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  His iron constitution enabled him to work morning and evening at improving and tilling his lands.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
7  It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
8  He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over his troubles, and searching vainly for some way out of them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
9  During the whole of that day they struggled on through the defiles, and by evening they calculated that they were more than thirty miles from their enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
10  With this trophy over his shoulder, he hastened to retrace his steps, for the evening was already drawing in.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11  That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
12  At last, one evening I was driving up and down Torquay Terrace, as the street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to their door.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
13  It was claimed that same evening, and returned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
14  "Gregson and Lestrade will be wild about his death," Holmes remarked, as we chatted it over next evening.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
15  When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
Example Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
16  She looked incredibly sexy in a black evening gown.
17  He put away a whole box of chocolates in one evening.
18  Kevin stopped to buy the evening paper from a news vendor.
19  I remember meeting you one evening at the Capital Theatre.
20  Take extra care on the roads this evening.
21  Let's make an evening of it and catch the last train home.
22  Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
23  Her selfish behaviour completely spoiled the evening.
24  His conduct that evening was to say the least curious.
25  The rain will continue into the evening.
26  Conversation with friends soon passes an evening away.
27  College evening classes cost a bundle.
28  We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.
29  She conditioned her acceptance of the gift on his coming to dinner next evening.
30  Drop around one evening next week.