noonday
Americanadjective
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of 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
Only upon closer inspection does the shimmer of looping barbed wire emerge, and then the shadows of stadium-style floodlights, dormant in the noonday sun.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
He forgot how McEnroe’s eyes used to narrow as if against the noonday glare, even on the cloudiest of days.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2018
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
“What creature,” the Sphinx asked him, “goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening?”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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