red-eye
Example Sentences
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“It’s like when you’re on a red-eye flight trying to get some sleep and the person next to you has their reading light on the entire time,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
It started red-eye flights to get more use out of its planes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
This week, he has embraced home comforts and accepted the adulation, from his red-eye Monday practice round through to being roared on by thousands on the 72nd hole.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025
Thursday night for a red-eye to Washington, D.C., with her two young kids.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
Margaret called each member of the Gey lab’s staff, including a postdoctoral student who’d just flown in on a red-eye from Europe.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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