noonday

Example Sentences

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Vatican officials said about 70,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for Francis’ noonday speech and blessing.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

Only upon closer inspection does the shimmer of looping barbed wire emerge, and then the shadows of stadium-style floodlights, dormant in the noonday sun.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020

Suddenly, I was in a forest so thick that the tree canopy overhead all but blotted out the noonday sky.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

Klein is standing barefoot on Alucia’s top deck in cargo shorts and a faded MC5 t-shirt, squinting in the noonday sun.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

“You are being sent to the dungeon. You are to take the jailer his noonday meal. That will be your duty from now on. ”

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo