night and day
Example Sentences
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She said the difference was like night and day, and the therapy had given her "a lot of my life back".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
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
Pangs of hunger melted my resentment of my father away, and now that he was gone I longed night and day for his return.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
