dead of night
Example Sentences
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He wrote a goodbye note and left the small commune in the Pyrenees in the dead of night.
From BBC • May 13, 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
Then came a flash of light so bright that in the dead of night they could briefly see out their window the rocks and gullies of the San Gabriel foothills behind their house.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
Emmett starts to sing a gentle song about a bird in the dead of night.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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