wee hours

Example Sentences

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Traitors are often awake until the wee hours filming turret scenes.

From Salon

Along in the wee hours of morning, I fell asleep.

From Literature

“Me? What are you doing? Skulking around in the wee hours, bungling the staircase so as not to be heard.”

From Literature

Nor do they park their cars to obstruct law-enforcement operations or gather outside hotels in the wee hours to chant and bang drums because those hotels rented rooms to ICE agents.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the wee hours of an August morning, an artificial-intelligence project manager at Google loaded the newest creation from its DeepMind lab onto a platform that ranks AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal