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THIS EVENING
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During the night of the present day
Example:
drop by tonight
Synonyms:
this evening; this night; tonight
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Context examples:
On the other hand, if you are attached, you may want to meet your partner this evening after work to have a fun dinner in your neighborhood.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Not for gold or silver, but for flesh and blood: let me again this evening speak with the bridegroom in his chamber, and I will give thee the whole brood.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I shall be very much surprised, however, if it is still so when he reconnoitres it this evening.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To own the truth, Sir Thomas, we were in the middle of a rehearsal when you arrived this evening.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If it may be that with all the others we can be so successful, then the sunset of this evening may shine on Madam Mina's forehead all white as ivory and with no stain!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I have to begin my report by bad news, for the first serious personal trouble (I pass over the incessant bickerings between the Professors) occurred this evening, and might have had a tragic ending.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I knew it before I came here this evening.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
