noonday
Example Sentences
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Vatican officials said about 70,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for Francis’ noonday speech and blessing.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Klein is standing barefoot on Alucia’s top deck in cargo shorts and a faded MC5 t-shirt, squinting in the noonday sun.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
Cape Town, South Africa, has been shooting off its noon gun since 1806, and Hong Kong's noonday cannons first began firing in the 1860s, about the time a similar tradition took hold in Edinburgh, Scotland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2016
There have always been bookish types who run on clockwork, and the noonday of the nineteenth century was their finest hour; regular churchgoing, no doubt, helped to wind them up.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
The noonday sun was overhead, and Tristran found himself getting increasingly hungry.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
