night shift
Example Sentences
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In 2026 the city holds the title European Capital of Culture, though culture has been working the night shift here for centuries.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Toxic gas is believed to have built up underground in poorly ventilated tunnels, causing the workers to collapse just before the end of their night shift.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Doukopil claimed that his night shift will be “more accountable and more transparent than Cronkite.”
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
"We are ghosts on the night shift," says Leandro Cristovao from Angola, who has worked the graveyard shift at a south London market for seven years.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
He is next door at his grandparents' flat, because Mutti is still asleep, tired from her night shift.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
