high noon
Example Sentences
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“It was a showdown at high noon, and he got trounced.”
From BBC • May 30, 2024
Fittingly, it’s a high noon showdown at Clemson Memorial Stadium.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023
They didn’t make Ms. Burks’s deadline of high noon, but they arrived nonetheless.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
By high noon the pastel is so pale it looks like white.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022
Immortal, too, their cowherds are—their shepherds— Phaethousa and Lampeti'a, sweetly braided nymphs that divine Neaira bore to the overlord of high noon, Helios.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
