noonday

Example Sentences

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Vatican officials said about 70,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for Francis’ noonday speech and blessing.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

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

A few days after the trial, Mr. Peeler timed himself as he drove the route Ms. Brown was alleged to have taken, from one fur shop to another in noonday traffic.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2015

Everywhere lay sharp, broken remains, glittering in the noonday sun.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin