noonday

Example Sentences

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I pushed my mower out in the noonday sun right alongside the men — and one woman — in my neighborhood.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

They heat oil and knead dough and cook rotis, then trudge in noonday heat into the mint fields to feed family members.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2021

Klein is standing barefoot on Alucia’s top deck in cargo shorts and a faded MC5 t-shirt, squinting in the noonday sun.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

Mahut and Herbert secured the break when Chardy double-faulted—the noonday sun, and some untimely gusts from Hermine, offshore, were giving all the players serving fits—and, soon enough, they took the set, 6–4.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2016

“What creature,” the Sphinx asked him, “goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton