How to Use the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening in a Sentence

the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening

noun
  • Queen got one song the other day, with all the words as lyrics to that song.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Just saw it the other day, for the first time in years, out of the clear blue.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • My wife and one of our sons who was staying with us watched it the other night.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
  • A lot of people were just learning about him for the first time the other day.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • So we’ve been favored, I was told the other day, like four or five times all year.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her old fence is falling, and the other day a possum entered her yard.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The guys are excited about this game coming off of a tough game the other night.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
  • There’d been no reason to get so angry with him for shooting the bird the other day.
    Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Like the other day, someone was saying my forehead was too small.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Hanging a frame in my apartment the other day, a crooked placement gave me pause.
    Camille Freestone, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Lincoln Riley called me the other day and just wanted to talk to me, check in.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Because the other day, a friend came up to me at work and handed me two collapsible dog bowls.
    Katie Yee, People.com, 10 July 2025
  • There was a video the other day of someone had sent me of someone claiming to be Teri.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • Some people were chortling over something a Fox reporter did the other day.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The person singing that song, as Marco put it the other day, is the song itself.
    Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
  • And Jordan [Chiles] had rhinestones on her eyes the other day.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Little Italy neighbors got the news the other night and approved.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024
  • My partner made a joke the other day about fixing himself a $50 omelet.
    Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Just the other day, someone was lamenting the lack of cool-looking concepts.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Some pro athletes wore T-shirts the other day that ticked people off, predictably.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 22 July 2025
  • Fourth-line force Lauko lamented the other day how the Wild’s forecheck wasn’t doing well.
    Joe Smith, The Athletic, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Dontrelle Willis told me that the other day, not by raising his voice, but by looking me straight in the eye.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Brunson and the rest of them honored that concept the other night in Detroit.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • But just the other evening my wife and I were sitting in our living room with friends when there was a tremendous roar.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Take the other day, for instance, when the Pioneer players had an off day.
    Pat Graham, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The article that came out the other day on the subject was from the hoax-busting site Snopes.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Of the seven appetizers the other night, the least glamorous turned out to be the most winning.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • One day was for the scene where I was killed, and the other day was obviously just doing my lines and stuff like that.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 6 May 2025
  • This issue came up in the car the other day when my wife Patti and I were driving to someone’s house.
    Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
  • The founder of the global company, Fred Smith, died the other day at age 80.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025

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