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
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What started with a bloody fight between two men on a residential street in Covington, ended in a shooting in broad daylight that left one of those men dead.
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Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2024
Carried out in public — on L.A. freeways in broad daylight — the heists have a brazen quality befitting an action movie, or at least a TV police procedural.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The alert warns that murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets.
—Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
Russian regiments and brigades have a bad habit of assembling their troops out in the open, in broad daylight, just 10 or 20 miles from the front line of Russia’s two-year wider war on Ukraine.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
For the first time in nearly two years, the public heard the voice of a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy plead with his fellow officers to stop shooting at a 15-year-old girl on the side of a California highway in broad daylight.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Most of the movie takes place in broad daylight, not at all the aesthetic audiences expect from a modern-day war movie, which typically uses strategic filters to make everything look gritty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
Although Baggie succeeds in making it out of the building, the Possessor ends up transforming into one of the library’s stone lion statues and fighting the Ghostbusters in broad daylight.
—EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
To her shock, Ms. Zampieri found olms on aboveground jaunts not just in the nighttime but also in broad daylight.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2024
Carried out in public — on L.A. freeways in broad daylight — the heists have a brazen quality befitting an action movie, or at least a TV police procedural.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The alert warns that murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets.
—Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
Russian regiments and brigades have a bad habit of assembling their troops out in the open, in broad daylight, just 10 or 20 miles from the front line of Russia’s two-year wider war on Ukraine.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
For the first time in nearly two years, the public heard the voice of a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy plead with his fellow officers to stop shooting at a 15-year-old girl on the side of a California highway in broad daylight.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Most of the movie takes place in broad daylight, not at all the aesthetic audiences expect from a modern-day war movie, which typically uses strategic filters to make everything look gritty.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
Although Baggie succeeds in making it out of the building, the Possessor ends up transforming into one of the library’s stone lion statues and fighting the Ghostbusters in broad daylight.
—EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
To her shock, Ms. Zampieri found olms on aboveground jaunts not just in the nighttime but also in broad daylight.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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