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How to use midday in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Midday means noon; twelve o'clock during the day. Example: “One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.”

Examples of midday by meaning

nounNoon; twelve o'clock during the day.

  • One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
  • No midday energy slump.2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever
  • Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...

More sentences with midday

  • Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.From the entry break
  • Had I not known you were coming this evening, I'd have left at midday.From the entry had
  • I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.From the entry vacate
  • The earliest I can get there is Monday, at around midday at the earliest.From the entry earliest
  • The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.From the entry roaring
  • We are holding an open morning on 9th May from 9 am to midday. Everyone is welcome.From the entry open morning
  • At midday, the long bond is up a tick.From the entry tick
  • It was agreed to meet here at midday.From the entry agree
  • I won't be back before midday, I don't suppose.From the entry suppose
  • The heat drove the workers into a midday stupor.From the entry stupor
  • I'll call for you just after midday.From the entry call for
  • I didn't get up until midday.From the entry get up
  • The meeting was recessed at midday.From the entry recess
  • Trumpets, tabors, shawms, and pipes fanfared the court to the midday repast in the presence chamber.2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood, →ISBN. From the entry fanfare
  • At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 499. From the entry eighth
  • At midday he had some bread and water and lay down for a sleep.2000, Daniel Easterman, Incarnation (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 411. From the entry goatherd
  • Though it is midday the apartment is dark, the nightcloth is on the birdcage still.1997, Anne K. Rose, “The Waltz”, in Double Vision: Twelve Stories, Madison, Conn.: Psychosocial Press, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry nightcloth
  • The sky was so dark with them we had to light the lamps at midday.”1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, page 27. From the entry hopper
  • Drivelling back to the shanty at midday presented him with a distracting gamble over lunch.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 122. From the entry drivel
  • Sister's of Mercy, Sister Angela Moroney and Sister Margareta Cunningham, both 86, were amongst those mourners gathered for the midday service.2025 April 21, Matthew Lodge, Eirian Jane Prosser, “King Charles pays tribute to Pope Francis after his death aged 88: His Majesty joins…. From the entry Margareta
  • All of the other suggestions are great (especially 6-2-1 rule) but also think about packing some midday snacks.2013 July 9, u/JCizle, “Going to my first convention- keeping it local and small. Any tips from con vets?”, in r/boardgames, Reddit…. From the entry 6-2-1 rule
  • The three young flexitimers tended to stroll into the office around midday, and then worked Saturdays, often Sundays too.2012, Tim Pears, Blenheim Orchard, page 59. From the entry flexitimer
  • Often thought of as a snack taken with afternoon tea, tiffin is actually a light lunch eaten at midday.2008, Sarah Murray, Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry tiffin
  • Shortly after midday, Billiam van Roestenberg and Jeffrey S.2004 February 28, Marc Santora, Thomas Crampton, “Same-Sex Weddings In Upstate Village Test New York Law”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry Billiam
  • The local train was empty at midday.1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels, Random House, page 300. From the entry stopper
  • At midday, Healy leaves to go back to Washington.1992 June 21, Malcolm Gladwell, “THE HEALY EXPERIMENT”, in The Washington Post. From the entry reexplain
  • Each afternoon – immediately following the dhuhur or midday prayers – he was summoned to Fatima's tent for a question-and-answer period.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 55. From the entry dhuhr
  • A marconigram received at midday altered her destination to Leningrad.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 18, in Well Tackled!. From the entry marconigram
  • Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.1911, Jack London, “Make Westing”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories. From the entry pipe up
  • Sometimes it is clear, and at midday the sun looks at us for a moment over the hills to the south.1905, Jack London, “The Sun-dog Trail”, in Love of Life and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co.…. From the entry sun dog
  • The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon.2023 March 24, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Lam Tin
  • It’s dead grass and midday thunderstorms.2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 254. From the entry Houston
  • A couple walking in Kirkleatham Woods, Redcar, heard whimpering and found the terrier-type animal in a mound of earth at about midday.2016, Dog found buried alive in Redcar with nail in head, BBC. From the entry put down
  • At midday Wednesday, a few hours after the video began circulating online, the government of Xin’an County, in the city of Luoyang, announced that Mr.2015 July 29, Austin Ramzy, “After Appearing Drunk on Television, Chinese Official Faces Inquiry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Xin'an
  • A young woman in a traditional black carsaf waited for the call to midday prayer on Friday outside the Mevlana Mosque in central Konya.2007 May 15, Sabrina Tavernise, “Turkish City Counters Fear of Islam’s Reach”, in New York Times. From the entry carsaf
  • What still remains a mystery is how she managed to put away the entire midday meal that I had left for her, Ted, and Bill.1989, Dido Merwin, “Appendix II: Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath”, in Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath…. From the entry pantagruelian
  • Italian Ambassador Amedeo Guillet, who makes it a practice never to eat at midday, lounged on a Moroccan pouf reading The Peter Principle.1971 August 26, “Slaughter at the Summer Palace”, in Time. From the entry pouf

Meaning of midday

  1. noun Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

Full definition of midday

Questions about midday in a sentence

How do you use midday in a sentence?
Midday is used as a noun. For example: “One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.”
What is a short sentence with midday?
“No midday energy slump.”
What does midday mean?
Midday means noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

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