How to Use afternoon in a Sentence

afternoon

noun
  • She spent the afternoon at the library.
  • It took us all afternoon to get there.
  • It's going to be a long afternoon listening to lectures.
  • I remember the many rainy afternoons I spent reading at the library.
  • It was early afternoon when I left.
  • I'll see you again tomorrow afternoon.
  • She doesn't have class on Friday afternoons.
  • In the 1,600, a strong breeze picked up in the middle of the afternoon.
    Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Desert Daze in the afternoon and Desert Nights in the evening.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Mitchell played in the afternoon and birdied the last two holes to join him.
    Doug Ferguson, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There could be some winds up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
    Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The Dodgers didn’t do much at the plate the rest of the day, finishing the afternoon with four hits.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
  • The snow level will rise to about 1,000 feet in the afternoon.
    oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The snow level will rise to about 2,000 feet in the afternoon.
    oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
  • There wasn’t a line at the bar there midway through the afternoon.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 30 July 2022
  • Metro Phoenix is the place for outdoor fun in the summer — just not in the afternoon.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
  • Winds will pick up in the afternoon and gust between 35 and 45 mph.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
  • One in the morning with food, and one in the afternoon, also with food.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The Dawson's Creek star's mom Kathy joined them for the afternoon out.
    Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Late in the afternoon, Cameron had one last costume change to make, and the trailers were far away from the set.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Maybe a rumble in the afternoon as a brief surge of milder air comes in, and that’s when highs in the near 60 to mid-60s range happen.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Howell’s second triple of the afternoon came in the the sixth and also drove in two runs.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 7 May 2023
  • Start this process in the morning and allow the hot afternoon sun to dry your wood through.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 22 July 2024
  • There will be times of sun and clouds, breezy and very warm with a thunderstorm in the afternoon.
    Leah Olajide, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
  • High above her was the blue sky, and a few hundred feet away the afternoon was peaceful.
    Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Lee had a slight fever and a sore throat in the afternoon, the office said in a later statement.
    Kanis Leung, ajc, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In the afternoon, the wind whipped up, so strong that Cochran began taking videos of the flying leaves.
    Joanna Slater, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The biggest fire in the U.S. grew to more than 117 square miles through the afternoon northeast of Santa Fe.
    Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2022
  • At the very least, a women’s professional team in Detroit might play home games during the week or in the afternoons.
    Hailey Salvian, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • At least eight people died in a 50-vehicle crash caused by a severe dust storm in Kansas on Friday afternoon.
    Robert Shackelford, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025

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