How to use "afternoon" in a sentence

I should reach my truck by late afternoon

2.45 pm It's the middle of the afternoon and time to film again

She called Brion later that afternoon to ask if Aron had arrived.

By early afternoon, Elliot had received an email from Steve Pratchett, the most important of Aron's climbing friends

Early afternoon is usually the warmest time of day

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

The next afternoon, Captain Nemo suddenly opened my door

'Good afternoon,' it said loudly

A day or two later, after school in the afternoon, he and his friends came up to me and started pushing and hitting me

That afternoon, he gave me the ball to run with

It was late afternoon when I began to walk back to my room

I took it - and ran straight into a group of big men on the other team! Crash! It was like that all afternoon.

That afternoon, back at the hotel, he came to my room shouting and throwing newspapers on to the bed

It was in the afternoon, and the man behind the bar said, Jenny'll be here about nine o'clock.'

That afternoon, Jenny took me to meet the other people in the group, and that night I began playing my harmonica with them at the Hodaddy Club

Then, one afternoon when I was playing to some people in the park, I noticed that a little boy was watching me carefully

That afternoon, M

One cold but sunny afternoon in February, Marius was walking along the street when two young girls dressed in rags ran into him

One afternoon he was sitting in a field, looking down at a small river, when his dreams of 'Ursula' were suddenly broken by the sound of a familiar voice

And the afternoon is hot

At half past two in the afternoon on the fifth of January Miss Stella Lee found Mr Dawson

He only knows that it was three in the afternoon when they first heard the sound of the police sirens.

"Tomorrow afternoon," Sala told her.

The following afternoon, as Sala walked up and down in her little room, waiting to go with Cham for their pod experience, she had a strange feeling in her stomach

Back at home that afternoon, Sala thought about Niki's words: it was true that because she was with Cham, life felt exciting

Dad came home with the news yesterday afternoon, and he and Mom have been really depressed ever since."

When she and Cham left the simulator center, it was still only late afternoon, so Sala went to the energy center

But instead he said, 'Well, I suppose you have a holiday this afternoon

The afternoon with Mrs Van Hopper did not matter

I had to play cards with Mrs Van Hopper that afternoon, but I was still happy

'The fire in the library is not usually lit until the afternoon, Madam,' he said

The afternoon was sleepy and peaceful

One afternoon, I was having tea alone when the wife of the bishop called

Later that afternoon, Frank Crawley came up to the house.

It was on a Sunday afternoon when someone spoke about the Fancy Dress Ball again

Frank Crawley had come to lunch and the three of us were hoping to have a quiet afternoon

The afternoon seemed very long

'Good afternoon.'

'The inquest will be on Tuesday afternoon,' Colonel Julyan told us

She would start by spending Thursday afternoon here, boxing the clothes and toys and posters.

Tuesday afternoon Tina watched the final dress rehearsal of Magyck! From a seat in the middle of the Golden Pyramid showroom.

While he went to fetch her Honda, she stood in the warm late-afternoon sunshine, unable to stop grinning.

Vivienne had been scheduled to work this afternoon, but she'd canceled

This afternoon, however, she'd been playing a pair of lucky slot machines at the Mirage Hotel, and she hadn't wanted to walk away from them while they were paying off so generously

They pulled the handles for hours at a time, often making a twenty-dollar bill last a long afternoon

"But if you just put your name on our work list, we'll most likely have a man there by four o'clock this afternoon, tomorrow morning at the latest

Tina arrived at Bally's Hotel at ten minutes till two, Wednesday afternoon, leaving her Honda with a valet parking attendant.

They go to bed at dawn, get up in the afternoon, and they lose track of what day it is

This afternoon, as usual, the drapes were closed

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

"This afternoon I decided it has to be a stranger

I'll be seeing him tomorrow afternoon at a New Year's Day party

Over breakfast, he asked her to go with him to the afternoon party at which he was going to corner Judge Kennebeck to ask about the exhumation

"And you'll have the grave reopened by tomorrow afternoon."

Will you be here all afternoon?"

She dragged it into the bedroom, across the carpet, into the shafts of reddish-gold afternoon sunlight that filtered through the sheltering trees outside and then through the dust-filmed window.

"Has anyone been around here this afternoon?"

In the foyer, Elliot jerked open the front door, pushed her through ahead of him, and they both plunged into the golden late-afternoon sunshine.

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

"Billy," she said, "if I tried to explain, we would be here all afternoon."

"They did that this afternoon," Dombey said, tapping a pile of printouts that lay on the table

When I arrived at the asylum that afternoon, Helene took me outside

That afternoon, Bernardo looks for his hat.

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?'

'I saw her walking round her garden this afternoon.'

'This afternoon I was asked to go to a dying man, but when I got there everyone was very surprised

'Mr Dennis Clement came in the afternoon

'How could I have thought for one minute that Anne did it? I met her in the studio that afternoon...' He paused.

I would be very grateful if you could come and see me this afternoon

'Good afternoon, Madam.' Then he saw me and frowned

'No, it was Hilda's afternoon out

'You were at home all afternoon?'

'Good afternoon, Madam

'Did you see anyone go by the path into the woods that afternoon?' I asked

The inquest into Colonel Protheroe's death was held that same Saturday afternoon at the Blue Boar.

'In fact we bumped into you at the station this afternoon.'

Perhaps you could come and see me this afternoon?

Please, dear Vicar, could you come to my house this afternoon and help me?

Will you call in and see me this afternoon?'

'When I called on Mrs Lestrange on the afternoon of the murder I thought she was out

Then I told her about the three notes I had received that afternoon

'But by Thursday afternoon the crime had been very carefully planned

By the afternoon the appearance of the common had changed very much

To make myself feel better I took a cold bath in the afternoon.

Even the afternoon papers had nothing to tell apart from the movement of soldiers around the common, and the burning of the woods between Woking and Weybridge

There they stopped for the rest of the afternoon, because they were all exhausted.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the thin remains of a cloud of Black Smoke was seen coming through London's Blackfriars Bridge

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

Everything was quiet through the afternoon and we started at about five o'clock along the blackened road to Sunbury.

In the afternoon he tried to get some food

I followed them to my study and found, lying on my writing- table, the page of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder

George works in the City until the afternoon

This goes on for most of the afternoon

That afternoon I went for a walk with Miss Halcombe

This morning he spoke to me, and this afternoon I told Laura what he had said: 'He was very generous

Later on that afternoon, I went for a walk with Laura.

I am afraid to come back this afternoon, so I am leaving you this note at six in the morning

This afternoon, I wrote him a letter, asking if we could return to Limmeridge House.

In the afternoon Lolita is alone in the patio

Zorro goes to Lolita and whispers, "I cannot forget this afternoon in the patio."

"Good afternoon, my son," says his father, Don Alejandro Vega