by night

idiom

: at night : during the night
New York by night is very different from New York by day.

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The Chiefs grew more stout as the game progressed and held the Lions to 98 rushing yards by night’s end. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025 So Schiller worked with Cawood to make a short film using AI that starred his son as a vet-ninja (veterinarian by day, ninja by night). Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025 Skincare, after all, begins precisely with one’s choice of cleanser, setting the stage for clean, glowing skin by morning and sloughing away the day’s impurities by night. Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025 Only the paintings bore witness to her intense, solitary writing sessions, conducted in the studio by night, Stein flicking the pages of her notebooks with hardly a pause, until dawn birdsong disturbed her concentration. Francesca Wade, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for by night

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“By night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20night. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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