MIDNIGHT in a Sentence

Learn MIDNIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

173 example sentences for MIDNIGHT, such as:

1. Then they talked till midnight.
2. It won't go on beyond midnight.
3. We finally got home at midnight.
4. I'll probably be home by midnight.
5. Kennicott had returned at midnight.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIDNIGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
midnight
 n.  12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
Classic Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1  The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  And it'll be midnight before he gets her turned around to where she's so mad at the Chancellor she'll be asking Boyd why he didn't shoot him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  It might be just after twilight and it might be midnight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  She turned the horse's head into the driveway, and the cedars, meeting over their heads cast them into midnight blackness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She did not know how matters stood with him, for they did not dare write to Tara about Tony's midnight visit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  She looked about, seeing little boys lying in the crooks of their fathers' arms, breath coming fast, eyes glowing, as they heard of midnight stories and wild cavalry dashes and flags planted on enemy breastworks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  She knew that such emotions leave lines on the face as well as in the character, and she had meant to take warning by the little creases which her midnight survey had revealed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
8  It was now past midnight, and the throng on the stands was dispersing, while the long trails of red-lit boats scattered and faded beneath a sky repossessed by the tranquil splendour of the moon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9  Carol was alone from three till midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Kennicott had returned at midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Then they talked till midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  She was ignored by the males till midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Dave will be in the store till midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  All week, from eight each morning till midnight, Carol fed them, bathed them, smoothed sheets, took temperatures.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
2  I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
3  When it got to midnight and Paul was still not back, I began to assume the worst.
4  They were trying to beat the midnight deadline.
5  We use to go for a midnight walk during the midsummer.
6  It won't go on beyond midnight.
7  Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.
8  When they finally arrived it was well past midnight.
9  We finally got home at midnight.
10  He still went home, notwithstanding the midnight.
11  They arrived in Beijing at midnight and checked into Beijing Hotel.
12  It was going on midnight when we left the party.
13  The newspaper reporter had to phone in her story before midnight.
14  They started off to Normandie at midnight.
15  I'll probably be home by midnight.