dead of night
Example Sentences
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Written in the dead of night in her university room, they were rooted in the sounds of UK garage and drum and bass, and the buzz earned her the BBC's Sound of 2022 award.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 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
Currently, exchanges and brokers use the dead of night to handle a host of rarely thought-of functions.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
Then came a flash of light so bright that in the dead of night they could briefly see out their window the rocks and gullies of the San Gabriel foothills behind their house.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
He wondered what his aunt and uncle would do with them; burn them in the dead of night, probably, as if they were the evidence of some dreadful crime.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
