How to Use sunup in a Sentence

sunup

noun

• We will meet at sunup.
• It’s like nose to the grindstone, sunup to sundown and longer.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2021
• His best chance to catch a glimpse of the heavens comes here and now, before sunup.
  — [e-mail], Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
• Not one bite of food or sip of water from sunup to sundown.
  — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 16 June 2017
• Camp within earshot of Havasu Falls and hoof back to your car at sunup.
  — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The 300-pound beagle and the wolf (White Fang) just moved in one day, leaving me to feed them at 3 a.m., or let them out at sunup.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• To avoid the crowds, plan to arrive at the park by sunup, hitting the more popular trails early.
  — Catherine Toth Fox, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2020
• After sunup, the bite is better on the edge of the flats in 7-to-8-feet around scattered grass on jigs slow-hopped or dragged down the incline; www.anglingadventures.info.
  — Frank Sargeant, al.com, 21 June 2019
• Eid al-Fitr -- which is the day to break a month-long period of sunup-to-sundown fasting.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
• Hours before sunup every weekday, Adama and his five-man crew roll their pirogues out to sea.
  — Chidinma Irene Nwoye, Quartz Africa, 27 Feb. 2020
• The measure now moves to the House, where a vote could come before sunup, but its fate in the lower chamber is far from certain.
  — Bill Lambrecht, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2018
• The residents, who worked six days a week from sunup to sundown, were not paid for their work, the victims allege.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• There is a really great-looking playground behind the house and the grounds are open to the public, sunup to sundown.
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• The pair have taken over Jamaica for the last few days, serving piping hot bawdy across the country from sunup to sundown.
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 9 Jan. 2020
• Fueling your body from sunup to sundown can also help keep headaches at bay.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2019
• Inmates lived in small camps and worked sunup to sundown in nearby plantation fields.
  — Jerry Mitchell, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2020
• The demand was so great that patients who arrived after sunup sometimes got turned away.
  — Barack Obama, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• Our neighbor's five kids and their friends use this court on a daily basis, from sunup to sundown, each on their own practice schedule.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
• Observers fast from sunup to sundown, breaking fast with iftar, the evening meal and for many Muslims, a communal event.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral, 25 Apr. 2020
• Monsour observes Ramadan by fasting from sunup to sundown, which is one of the pillars of Islam.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
• Starting at sunup, firefighters will again attack the blaze with aircraft.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
• Most Muslims fast from sunup to sundown during Ramadan.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• The area was difficult to access, so authorities were waiting for sunup to try to reach the area, Officer Steven Bourasa said.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Over two days in five towns across Northern Kentucky, agents staked out homes before sunup, stopped men heading for jobs, went to warehouses like the one where Tomas had worked for more than a year.
  — Nomaan Merchant, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2018
• Many Muslim delegates will fast from sunup to sundown before heading out for Ifthar, the traditional meal that breaks the fast.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 17 June 2017
• The journey from seed to plate is uncertain—drought, pests, predators, limited cash, too much rain, and too few field hands willing to work sticky-hot summers from sunup to sundown.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, thru-hikers who are on the go from sunup till sundown, and therefore need to keep weight to a minimum, should invest in ultralight hiking shoes for men.
  — Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2021
• The past few, starting at sunup and continuing until sundown, were 40-milers.
  — Christa Lawler, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
• Just go outside before sunup in late September or early October, and look south to southeast.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Some in the community have suggested that Ramadan, the holy month during which observant Muslims fast from sunup to sundown, may have saved lives.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 15 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024