in broad daylight

idiom

: during the day when people and things can be easily seen rather than at night

The crime was committed in broad daylight.

Examples of in broad daylight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Twenty times, stabbed her in broad daylight on a public street in front of witnesses and under the watch of surveillance cameras. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025

As a Ukrainian drone observed on or just before Thursday, a Russian bike soldier raced, in broad daylight, across the no-man’s-land somewhere along the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 39-month wider war on Ukraine. —David Axe, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

Police in Paris are hunting for a group of armed men who attempted to kidnap the daughter of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in broad daylight on Tuesday. —Dan Gooding hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025

One tip came in anonymously with surveillance footage that showed a similar man cutting a limb from a tree at the corner of North Figueroa Street and West Avenue 26 in broad daylight. —Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025

Rhymes for in broad daylight

• actinolite
• adipocyte
• amphibolite
• anorthosite
• anthophyllite
• aragonite
• carbonatite
• cassiterite
• cristobalite
• crocidolite
• diatomite
• dithionite