dead of night
Example Sentences
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Here, "your information and history are being removed in the dead of night," he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
Ten months after the most mind-boggling trade in basketball history went down in the dead of night, only one thing is unsurprising.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
By the next day he was warning the roughly 10 million residents of Tehran, Iran's capital, to flee in the dead of night.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025
A small number of broadcasters and non-profit organisations transmit information into the country in the dead of night on short and medium radio waves, so North Koreans can tune in to listen in secret.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
Aunt Maggie’s husband, the “uncle” who had fled from Arkansas in the dead of night, had deserted her; and now she was casting about for a living.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
