What's the difference between nightfall and sunset?

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.

Sunset


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sunsetting

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
  • (3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
  • (6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
  • (7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
  • (9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
  • (10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
  • (11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
  • (12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
  • (14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
  • (16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
  • (19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
  • (20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.

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