dead of night
Example Sentences
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The work travelled across the Channel on the Eurotunnel before making its way to central London in the dead of night.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
Currently, exchanges and brokers use the dead of night to handle a host of rarely thought-of functions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
But in the dead of night, on 17 September, "the big moment" that she'd been waiting for finally arrived and Sana left her home first for Jordan, for biometric tests, and then for Durham.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
