five o'clock shadow in English

noun

1

a dark appearance on a man's chin and face caused by the slight growth of beard that has occurred since he shaved in the morning.

I shaved and washed my face before I left, getting rid of the slight five o'clock shadow that cursed my face around dinner time.

Use "five oclock shadow" in a sentence

1. The accident occurred at five o'clock.

2. The storm broke at five o'clock.

3. We cleared customs by five o'clock.

4. I'll be leaving at five o'clock tomorrow.

5. At about five o'clock, business slackened off.

6. It began to rain at five o'clock.

7. They checked off at five o'clock in the afternoon.

8. It was five o'clock and they began the trek homeward.

9. Agnew's car pulled into the driveway at exactly five o'clock.

10. Tell the servant to knock me up at five o'clock.

11. We waited until five o'clock, but he did not show up.

12. We have an unwritten understanding that nobody leaves before five o'clock.

13. I dragged myself wearily out of bed at five o'clock this morning.

14. Microwaves help nuke their early breakfasts, noon lunches, and five - o'clock dinners.

15. Mary an early bird. She gets up around five o'clock every morning.

16. He could do without her rhetorical questions at five o'clock in the morning.

17. By five o'clock in the afternoon we were all burned out from working.

18. It was five and a half o'clock now, and a raw, blustering morning.

19. About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light.

20. At five o'clock the phone set on the tailgate of the Range Rover trilled.

21. So we can catch all the heavy traffic at five o'clock at Los Pecos.

22. I have been on the road since five o'clock this morning and I'm really tired.

23. Chit-chat makes do until the wheezy chime of five o'clock, whereupon you stand up.

24. 29 Chit-chat makes do until the wheezy chime of five o'clock, whereupon you stand up.

25. He brings it down at four and five o'clock, the wooden T gripped like a corkscrew.