How to Use after-hours in a Sentence

after-hours

adjective
  • The shares are up about 4% in after-hours trading on the numbers.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • This will be the fourth year for the after-hours, extra-ticket event.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • In after-hours trading, shares rose more than 6% to $9.65.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 10 May 2023
  • Shares of Amazon climbed more than 11% in after-hours trading on the beat.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Coupang’s stock price gained as much as 6.1% in after-hours trading in New York.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune Asia, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Shares rose slightly in after-hours trading on the heels of the Times report.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In after-hours trading, the stock dipped about 1% following news of the share sale.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Lyft’s stock rose about 4% in after-hours trading Monday on the news.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Counting the after-hours move, Ambarella is up 23% in the past three months.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The news sent Intel’s stock price up more than 10% in after-hours trading.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The theater chain’s stock jumped more than 6.7% in after-hours trading.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The stately room was transformed from the show venue earlier in the day for the after-hours affair.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Night Shift was an after-hours thing starting at 10 p.m..
    — Lilian Raji, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Click here to see more photos of this after-hours Studio 54 loft.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 29 July 2024
  • Instead, Kidd said, those plans have been in the works for some time in response to complaints about after-hours use of the hot springs.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In newsrooms and at Murphy's (our after-hours HQ back in the day) heads were shaking for a good long while.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Shares of Roku were up more than 16% in after-hours trading on the earnings report.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been El Cholo’s after-hours greeting for about a year now.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Boeing’s stock price was down about 1.6% in after-hours trading, and the share price is down roughly 40% year-to-date.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Shares in Netflix surged more than 10% in after-hours trading on the results.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Shares of the company were up 9% in after-hours trading.
    — Isabella Simonetti, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The tech giant’s stock got a big boost from the news, rising nearly 9% to $732 per share in after-hours trading.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • At its after-hours price of about $153, Oracle is on pace to reach a record on Tuesday.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Shares of Netflix jumped by over 13% in after-hours trading.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2025
  • All directed with a woozy after-hours flair by Amy Seimetz.
    — EW.com, 10 June 2024
  • The after-hours festival includes three new mazes, five scare zones and four shows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Shares of Coinbase rose about 8.3% in after-hours trading.
    — Olga Kharif, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • The company crossed the $1,000 share-price threshold for the first time in after-hours trading on Wednesday evening.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • Take short breaks during the workday to avoid burnout, and unplug after-hours to fully focus on personal time.
    — Sherry Taylor, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In response to the announcement, General Motors’ stock price plunged more than 7% in after-hours trading.
    — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025

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