dead of night
Example Sentences
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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
Sometimes these turn up in the dead of night, around Europe's airports, including one in Belgium's main airport near Brussels earlier this month.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025
But there has been concern over whether slow services running in the dead of night can be economically viable.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 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
For near a fortnight there had been so many comings and goings that Robb ordered both portcullises kept up and the drawbridge down between them, even in the dead of night.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
