What's the difference between nightfall and sundown?

Nightfall


Definition:

  • (n.) The close of the day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
  • (2) By nightfall 10in (25cm) of snow had fallen just outside Philadelphia, while parts of New York City had 6in (15cm) and were expected to receive up to a foot of snow by Wednesday morning.
  • (3) By nightfall the Ukrainian forces were just 10 miles south of the city, bringing the two sides within artillery range of each other.
  • (4) By nightfall, search and recovery teams – which included around 30 ships and 15 aircraft from nine countries – had recovered a number of bodies, estimated at around 40, as well as more debris and some personal possessions, including a blue suitcase, unopened and undamaged.
  • (5) A small hollow will suddenly open up in the undergrowth to reveal a huddle of a dozen Afghans – often waiting till nightfall before making for Hungary.
  • (6) By nightfall, an incensed Lisa told an officer at a nearby police station that she intended to file a missing persons report, and said “the media is gonna be in here” unless Stephanie was freed within a half an hour.
  • (7) A rescue attempt on Friday was delayed by heavy bombardment and abandoned after nightfall, the UN peacekeeping chief, Hervé Ladsous, said.
  • (8) After nightfall, authorities could be heard issuing instructions on loudspeakers across the city, reminding residents a dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Squeeze’s hit Up the Junction It takes most of the afternoon to get to grips with the recording application that came with my computer, but by nightfall I have a basic demo, with guitar and two voices.
  • (10) Samir works seven days a week, from 8am until nightfall, earning 35 TL a week – a small fraction of the legal minimum wage.
  • (11) At nightfall, the policemen took Ruqayah, her sister and friend down to the communal cell under the police station where adult women detained on criminal charges – drug dealing, prostitution, violent crimes – were held.
  • (12) By nightfall, an eight-mile slick had slipped from its punctured tanks.
  • (13) John reluctantly headed to a deserted restaurant, waiting for nightfall so he could slip out of Bauchi unobserved.
  • (14) It was that dangerous twilight time, when the roads are swarming with villagers, their children, chickens, runaway piglets, wayward goats and workshy dogs, all dashing to get home before nightfall; drivers of vehicles without functioning lights or brakes career around potholes, also hurrying homewards.
  • (15) After nightfall in Mexico City, thousands stood outside their homes and in public places, holding candles.
  • (16) This led to the Hélène cycle, in which Audran as Hélène played a wife: adulterous in La Femme Infidèle and Les Noces Rouges (Wedding in Blood, 1973), put upon in La Rupture (1970) and betrayed in Juste Avant la Nuit (Just Before Nightfall, 1971).
  • (17) Photograph: AP By nightfall there were also reports of Isis forces moving towards the ethnically sensitive city of Kirkuk and consolidating positions throughout Nineveh province, which borders the Kurdish north and Arab centre of the country.
  • (18) It's a good river for spotting otters too, though you'll need to wait until nightfall.
  • (19) But one came in the form of a parade of young girls and sashaying boys shortly before nightfall, who made it their business to fill the intersection outside the now infamous burned CVS in West Baltimore with dancing.
  • (20) "I told the chief inspector personally that we wanted to leave before nightfall," Scott said.

Sundown


Definition:

  • (n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.
  • (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pattern of correlations indicated that both rate of cognitive decline and initial sundowning behavior were significantly correlated with initial perceived caregiver stress.
  • (2) Disturbances of sleep and the sleep-wake rhythm are a common clinical observation in AD, as is "sundowning," the onset or exacerbation of delirium during the evening or night.
  • (3) Among the 89 subjects, 11 were found to be sundowners, a prevalence rate of one in eight in the facility.
  • (4) This began to change later in the 1880s – George Henry's Sundown or River Landscape by Moonlight (1887) takes Monet's Impression of 15 years before and transfers it from Le Havre to the Clyde.
  • (5) A celebratory rally had been planned to take place outside the palace after sundown.
  • (6) Numerous theories have been advanced in attempting to account for sundowning.
  • (7) All patients had sundowning behavior and sleep disturbances.
  • (8) Further, we describe the prevalence, possible causes, and treatment of sundowning.
  • (9) Hundreds gathered on Friday at sundown for a peaceful prayer vigil and march.
  • (10) Lost in the pleasant absorption of that silence,” Novo recounts, “of the panorama of rooftops sprinkled here and there with the yellowing treetops at sundown,” he suddenly felt Emilio approaching from behind.
  • (11) There’s always a swimsuit in the boot of the car and people are always planning where to go for sundowners.
  • (12) The Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder took aim from more than 70 yards and the ball sailed over N’dy Assembé’s head into the net without touching the ground for his third international goal.
  • (13) This association may be specific to sundowning behavior because there was no relation between the rate of change of perceived stress and morning agitation.
  • (14) Kral and Wolanin and Phillips have argued for a more psychogenic account, by stating that psychosocial stressors may, in concert with impaired cognitive functioning, account for sundowning.
  • (15) Muslim Brotherhood sources said more surprise marches were likely after sundown on Tuesday night.
  • (16) Among physiologic factors, odor of urine, being awakened frequently on the evening shift, and fewer medical diagnoses were significantly associated with sundowning.
  • (17) And no one would dare say that they would cut the water of Egypt," said Abdel Arabi, 39, who sat on a tour boat watching sundown's rays glint off the Nile as birds swooped in for the evening's final catch.
  • (18) To investigate the relations among the initial perceived stress of Alzheimer patients' caregivers, the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behaviors, and patients' rate of cognitive decline.
  • (19) Caregivers' initial perceived stress and the rate of change of perceived stress, patients' sundowning behavior, and rate of cognitive decline.
  • (20) Infections obtained in sentinel larvae placed in the ponds for 3 hr intervals indicated that C. punctatus infected larvae around sundown.

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