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

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

A small number of broadcasters and non-profit organisations transmit information into the country in the dead of night on short and medium radio waves, so North Koreans can tune in to listen in secret.

From BBC • May 30, 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