before noon

Example Sentences

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Well before noon, the building was quiet again.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The department responded to a call for a bite on a hiking trail at Wildwood Park just before noon on March 14.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Then, just before noon, a local TV news reporter came into the store.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

A gaggle of emotional relatives clutched bouquets of flowers and placards bearing loved-ones' names as prisoners were released from Insein's barbed-wire boundary shortly before noon.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

There was a full day’s work to be done before noon, when the deadly heat drove everyone back into our big shuttered house and we lay down in the dim high-ceilinged rooms like sweating victims.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly