midnight
[ˈmɪdnaɪt]
Definition:
1. 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night.
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'midnight' example sentence:
- The custom is for people to try and eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight. Those who are successful can make a wish.
- If you're not in by midnight, there'll be trouble.
- He cast up towards midnight.
- I was up well past midnight.
- At midnight he awoke and listened to the radio for a few minutes.
- The French franc was no longer legal tender after midnight last night.
- Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.
- They were trying to beat the midnight deadline.
- The movie finished at midnight.
- It's turned midnight.
- It was well after midnight by the time Anne returned to her apartment.
- He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.
- We must be getting home ; it's past midnight.
- The sea was a deep midnight blue.
- How could their charms work till midnight?
- The ceremony started as the chimes of midnight struck.
- He gave reporters the slip by leaving at midnight.
- The break-in had occurred just before midnight.
- If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house.
- It was going on midnight.
- It must be getting on for midnight.
- He knew that if he wasn't back by midnight, his parents would have something to say about it.
- It was going on (for) midnight.
- Chris is asleep after burning the midnight oil trying to finish his article.
- Franklin did not turn up until well after midnight.
- They finally turned up at nearly midnight.
- It won't go on beyond midnight.
- He drives himself on, working like the devil from seven in the morning until midnight.
- The racket of drills and electric saws went on past midnight.
- It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.
- The clock showed midnight.
- She heard the clock strike midnight.
- It is close on midnight.
- They couldn't get the baby off till midnight.
- They had to leave at midnight.
- All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square.
- We have to catch the midnight train.
- Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.
- The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
- The bus service stops at midnight.
- Eastern Airlines shut down operations at midnight, and 18,000 employees were given their pink slips.
- In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight.
- It was past midnight.
- When they finally arrived it was well past midnight.
- They aren't likely to arrive this side of midnight.