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
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
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
To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal!
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
