25 examples of sunup in sentences

At sunup it lay completed, spread out as if the first of a pile.

Hasn't been seen since Friday morningFriday morning before sunup!

The sea's likely to go down after sunup.

but I didn't know they turned out reception committees before sunup.

He would try to reach the top of the flat-crested mountain well before sunup, when there would be a real light instead of this ghostly and partial illumination from the moon.

N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring^, foreday^, sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing^; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning. spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.

The Germans had come into it the day before at sunup, and finding the French there had opened fire.

I'm pullin' out about sunup.

This was the destination of the side-wheeler, and by sunup we were loaded into a machine with a horse, several goats, three or four passengers, and four barefooted boatmen, who pushed us over the strait to Chanak Kale.

It was sunup, a delicious morning, and far up against the southern sky the little speck was sailing back toward the west.

We paused till sunup at Lapsaki, crept close to shore through the Marmora, and once through floating wreckageboards and a galvanized-iron gasolene tankapparently from some transport sunk by a submarine, and after dark, with lights out as we had started, round the corner of Stamboul.

He used to tell me that the slaves worked from sunup till sundown.

All day long the metal of our guns would blister our naked hands; we didn't get a drop of water from sunup till sundown; we was close on to the trail of the varmints, and we kept at it by moonlight till our horses gave out

They won't be no sea 'til the breeze lifts at sunup.

I was scared, I promise you that; but after they got off a ways I worked in the other direction by spells till I got to a little wady, and by sunup they weren't in sight any longer.

His slaves didn't get out to work till after sunup.

His brother, who lived three miles out from us, made his folks get up before sunup.

Our work was hard, from sunup to sundown.

"The farm was very large, the slaves worked from sunup to sundown, no one was harshly treated or punished.

You see the hands went to the field before sunup, and they didn't get to eat breakfast in the kitchen and it had to be et in the field.

Been in the saddle since sunup without a bite.

If there's a man shows up at Carleton's later than an hour after sunup, we'll run him out of the country.

Befo' sunup I had to git to de Big House ter dress dem chulluns.

Friday morning at sunup Bud saddled his horse, closed the door of his cabin on the Blue Mesa, and, whistling to his old Airedale, Bondsman, rode across the mesa and down the mountain trail toward Jason.

" "I don't have to go to work 'til sunup," Casey hinted broadly, "and I've set up many a night when I wasn't havin' half as much fun as I git listenin' to you talk.

25 examples of  sunup  in sentences