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night

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adjective

as in nocturnal
of, relating to, or occurring in the night took a night flight out to the coast

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Recent Examples of night
Noun
One of the last letters of clues Rader sent police before his longest hiatus was mailed on the night of Rawson’s first birthday party. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025 After a comfortable night’s sleep at La Casa Del Zorro Desert Resort & Spa, a low-key oasis in Borrego Springs with casitas, swimming pools, and tennis and pickleball courts, Mikkelsen and I met before sunrise the next morning. Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Including those multi-night runs, the total number of shows scheduled for summer 2023 comes to 27. Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022 All-inclusive nightly rates begin at about $1,000 per couple, but there are multi-night packages that discount this 20-40%. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for night
Recent Examples of Synonyms for night
Noun
  • The governor has until next Monday, October 13, at midnight to sign or veto the remaining legislation on his desk.
    Kate Wolffe October 9, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Rain chances increase after midnight and continue into Friday morning, with storms expected to be out of the area by midday, the weather service said.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The recording of that release as depicted in the documentary is the balancing light to the overwhelming dark Osbourne experienced in his later years, a series of illnesses, hospitalizations, frustrations and ceaseless pain shown with unblinking frankness.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The creamy, ultra-pigmented formula contains caffeine and hyaluronic acid to depuff the under eyes, conceal dark under eye circles, and blur fine lines and wrinkles.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The innovative lineup features purses with knotted rope details, a bag shaped like a sailor collar and a laptop bag with magnetic closures that transforms into a pouch for evening.
    Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Approximately 50 people gathered Sunday evening to celebrate the life and upcoming birthday of Keiairra Travis after a hit-and-run killed her early Saturday morning.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Payton found an ally in running back Walker, who had absorbed football’s complex verbiage during his nocturnal Sunday nights.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bright nighttime skies are on the way in Michigan as the year's first full supermoon will rise in the sky Monday, astronomers say.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Kavan Markwood, 20, was charged with one misdemeanor count of loitering and prowling at nighttime after he was accused of attempting to gain entry into the home of an ex-girlfriend, CBS News reported, citing Brentwood police.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That Friday night, at dusk, Mamdani set out from Inwood.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • By dusk, the men in the lake house—men with wives and girlfriends wisely absent—were cracking jokes about his comely dishevelment.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Draconid meteors appear to streak away from a point of origin — or radiant — located close to the head of the great dragon represented by the constellation Draco, which can be found glittering above the Big Dipper asterism in the northwestern sky after sunset in mid-October.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • From sunrise to sunset, the Big Apple seems to stretch right into the apartment, with everything from the Empire State Building to the Upper East Side rooftops on show.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Tom Holland’s Fright Night, there’s no lurking in the shadows, and the phallic imagery is hard to miss.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody wants to live in the shadows.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Night.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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