sundown
IPA: sˈʌndaʊn
noun
- (US) Sunset.
- (countable) A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
verb
- (intransitive) to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall.
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Examples of "sundown" in Sentences
- Breese is a former sundown town.
- Naked people and sundowner optional.
- Sundown nothing of interest on hand.
- They patrolled from sundown to dawn.
- The trail run is concluded by sundown.
- I am the creator of the sundowner page.
- And at sundown there was another evening.
- It was historically known as a sundown town.
- It was closed from sundown on Fridays until sundown on Saturdays.
- It began at sundown on the sixth day and ended at sundown on the 7th day.
- It used to be known as a sundown town where blacks didn't dare go out at night.
- Also, you know, year ago they were called sundown towns, as in if you're black you want to be out by sundown.
- A classic stroll at sundown is along the malecón, which stretches for miles along the Gulf of Mexico to the outlying suburbs.
- WHITE: Well, the problem here is that if this fire is allowed to get into this canyon and we get that condition known as a sundown, those down canyon winds.
- OPPENHEIM: Our story on Vidor, Texas, depicted a place with very few African-American residents, a place that, in the '50s and' 60s, was known as sundown town, where African-Americans were warned not to be caught after dark.
- But then what firefighters and what Kara was reporting was right before the sunsets we get what's known as sundown winds or sundowner winds, and that happens because we get a decrease in relatively humidity with a rise in temperature at the end of the day.
- Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 39 weeks 2 hours ago people that take shots after dark during deer season. it's obviously 20 minutes past sundown, which is VERY illegal, and i'm still hearing gun shots every so often. ticks me off how people are stupid like that. another deer hunting one, i hate sooners! if you can't wait to hunt in the legal time, you shouldn't be hunting at all.
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