noonday

Example Sentences

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I pushed my mower out in the noonday sun right alongside the men — and one woman — in my neighborhood.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

The sheep were offering a symphony of guttural bleats punctuated with hollow tongs from bells dangling round their necks as Mr. Rogers and the dogs directed them toward a noonday water break.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

Klein is standing barefoot on Alucia’s top deck in cargo shorts and a faded MC5 t-shirt, squinting in the noonday sun.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

Cape Town, South Africa, has been shooting off its noon gun since 1806, and Hong Kong's noonday cannons first began firing in the 1860s, about the time a similar tradition took hold in Edinburgh, Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

Bells call them to vespers, to matins, to noonday prayer.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein