Example Sentences

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The researchers found that high cortisol levels may explain why night-owls take more risks.

From Time • Apr. 2, 2014

I thought all you night-owls went to bed when the rest of us got up.

From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn

He was a man of the new style, but he experienced now the spiritual condition of his great-grandfather, which affected him so that, like Maeterlinck's Hjalmar, he wished to throw handfuls of earth at night-owls.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

His companion stood in awe behind him, shivering in superstitious terror, as the white tombs gleamed like moving apparitions through the gloom, and the night-owls hooted with a mournful cadence o'er the dreary waste.

From The Days of Mohammed by Wilson, Anna May

Here Akhnaton elected to be buried, where hyenas prowled and jackals wandered, and where the desolate cry of the night-owls echoed over the rocks.

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma