twelve o'clock

Example Sentences

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“He’d shut it down about twelve o’clock, twelve-thirty. At seven in the morning, you’d hear it again.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2016

All his blots upon my documents, were dropped there after twelve o’clock, meridian.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

So that Turkey’s paroxysms only coming on about twelve o’clock, I never had to do with their eccentricities at one time.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

At precisely twelve o’clock on New Year’s Day, Oprah Winfrey welcomed television viewers to OWN, a cable channel that she says will espouse her “live your best life” mantra.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2011

It’s a local Jackson show, and it come on in color, right after the twelve o’clock news.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett