noontide

Example Sentences

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It was best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

North and further north they ran, while the pallid noontide came and went and the twilight wrapped itself again around the world.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Soon they were stealing through the green, noontide depths of Mossflower Wood.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"What moved thee to desolate the pleasant grove of dates and tamarinds, which was the wanderer's shelter against the sultry noontide, and gave him coolness and refection under the vault of its shady boughs?"

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas