dead of night
Example Sentences
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He wrote a goodbye note and left the small commune in the Pyrenees in the dead of night.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Ten months after the most mind-boggling trade in basketball history went down in the dead of night, only one thing is unsurprising.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
But there has been concern over whether slow services running in the dead of night can be economically viable.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
By the next day he was warning the roughly 10 million residents of Tehran, Iran's capital, to flee in the dead of night.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025
The day the baby was born, I spied, in the dead of night, midwives, under a cloak of great secrecy, digging small holes near the house.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
