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
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
Marched off the porch, right out into the dead of night, where supposedly the animals were wide awake and walking around like human beings.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
