noontide

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Meanwhile hour after hour passed on; the sun rose high; ere long the noontide brought a pause in business; the rushing crowd faded away; and still the expected Friend appeared not.

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