high noon
Example Sentences
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“It was a showdown at high noon, and he got trounced.”
From BBC • May 30, 2024
They didn’t make Ms. Burks’s deadline of high noon, but they arrived nonetheless.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
It’s just past sunset in the subterranean depths of Climate Pledge Arena, which in the world of trolls is akin to high noon.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022
After scoring only four runs in two losses to the lowly Washington Nationals, the Dodgers took aim just after high noon Wednesday and immediately unloaded on left-hander Patrick Corbin in a 7-1 victory.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2022
At high noon I stepped onto a mountain meadow.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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