night and day

Example Sentences

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A 30-year-old Chinese seafarer on a vessel waiting to sail into the Persian Gulf describes, night and day, seeing missiles and drones flying overhead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The ice lid contracts and expands with temperature fluctuations between night and day, opening cracks that fill with shards of newly frozen lake water.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

“Converting a building from 1990 versus one from 2010 is night and day due to the differences in code eras.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

“Anybody who has flown on a Starlink-equipped aircraft will say it was night and day between anything they experienced in the past,” Quilty said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

There was no mob, and night and day armed citizens guarded the ships.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes