night shift

noun

1

: a period of time during the night (such as from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.) in which a person is scheduled to work

He works the night shift and sleeps during the day.

2

: a group of people who work during the night shift

The night shift is starting to arrive.

Examples of night shift in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Maybe there’s a late-breaking nighttime emergency and the day shift has to stay on, instead of a daytime emergency where the night shift has to show up early. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026

Daddy was sleeping because Daddy had worked a twelve-hour night shift again. —Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026

Along the way, Johnson will be seen sheltering in an under-siege eight-story flat during a missile strike, and will join mobile gun teams and Kyiv’s volunteer air defenders for a freezing night shift protecting the capital from Russian drone attacks. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026

Desperate to keep herself busy and fight off her pain and loneliness, Tova gets a job working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. —Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for night shift

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