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

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

Cape Town, South Africa, has been shooting off its noon gun since 1806, and Hong Kong's noonday cannons first began firing in the 1860s, about the time a similar tradition took hold in Edinburgh, Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

“You are being sent to the dungeon. You are to take the jailer his noonday meal. That will be your duty from now on. ”

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo