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Examples of sunup in a Sentence
We will meet at sunup.
have you ever actually heard a rooster crow at sunup?
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This walkable former industrial warehouse district is packed with things to do from sunup until sundown.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 31 Jan. 2023
The doctor kept working through his own infection, as dozens of patients lined up from sunup to sundown to get care each day.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2023
And so every Friday at sunup, from Memorial Day weekend through September, six riders on horseback begin rounding up horses and bulls and leading them toward the rodeo pens 36 hours before showtime.
—New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
Night fell over the city, but by sunup on Wednesday, there were no new leads.
—New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
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First Known Use
1572, in the meaning defined above
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“Sunup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunup. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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sunup
noun
sun·up
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