nighttime
the time between evening and morning.
occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.
Origin of nighttime
1- Compare daytime.
Words Nearby nighttime
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How to use nighttime in a sentence
Take your daytime meds, and with the red marker, draw a smiley face, but place them in another cabinet, separate from the nighttime meds.
Hints From Heloise: Family needs to get on board to keep bathroom ship shape | Heloise Heloise | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostHe worked seven days a week, including holidays, and took a one-upmanship approach with legal opponents by scheduling nighttime meetings on Christmas Eve or the Fourth of July.
Mark B. Sandground Sr., Machiavellian divorce lawyer, dies at 88 | Bart Barnes | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostYou can also clip it to your rear-facing camera, for capturing delicious meals or nighttime pics, or around your laptop’s built-in camera.
Ring lights that will make your selfies pop | PopSci Commerce Team | January 6, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHowever, a nighttime curfew will still apply, restaurants will have to remain shut until January 20, and there is as yet no planned reopening date for bars.
Christmas aside, Germany prepares for a long, locked-down winter | David Meyer | November 26, 2020 | FortuneMost counties in California began a nighttime curfew and Los Angeles County, the state’s largest with around 10 million people, may face stricter lockdowns this week with cases and hospitalizations soaring.
AFC South thrives and the Steelers stay unbeaten in NFL Week 11 | Cindy Boren, Mark Maske, Des Bieler | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
A nighttime curfew that was imposed a few weeks ago seems barely enforced now—no doubt to the relief of the women at the Ramada.
The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of Pakistan | Umar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.
“nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.
Tony Bennett’s Nazi Hunting Past Is Just One Reason He’s the Greatest Living American | Asawin Suebsaeng | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.
I scouted round a little, and soon found that, at nighttime, there were but one man and a woman about the place.
The Hero of Panama | F. S. BreretonAnd the forest lay very still and solemn and dark in the silence of the nighttime.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table | Howard PyleShe followed him wherever he went, to examine this and consider that in the nighttime.
The Forgotten Planet | Murray LeinsterHe had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court.
1492 | Mary JohnstonEvading the guards, in the nighttime while all were asleep, he blew the Pertonwaithe palace into atoms.
The Iron Heel | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for night-time
the time from sunset to sunrise; night as distinct from day
(as modifier): a night-time prowler
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