How to Use all-night in a Sentence

all-night

adjective
  • For the first time this year, there was no stretch of beach in Fire Island Pines wide enough to accommodate the all-night event.
    Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • During Jazz Fest, the space even turns into an all-night concert venue.
    Megan Dubois, Chron, 28 Feb. 2023
  • After the all-night trip, the train pulled into Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station at 8 a.m. local time.
    Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Mykonos is best known for its stunning beaches and all-night parties that go well into the next day.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
  • Reluctant to leave each other and let the spirit go, some went off to all-night restaurants.
    Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But the sequence goes on too long and diffuses its point when word spreads among the local kids and an all-night rager ensues.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Think: apparel that could take you from a late evening at the office to an all-night rave and back to the office in the morning, with no change of clothes in between.
    Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Just make sure the pitch isn’t too steep to ensure your formal sandals are dance-all-night comfortable.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In this era of economizing, the all-night bidding wars that made Sundance sizzle have become a thing of the past.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There was an all-night party going on in Batavia Friday that no one was going to complain about.
    David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • Clad in a top hat and tails, with a bottle of Champagne in hand, Mr. Kirke, who was nursing a hangover from an all-night party, was the first to take the plunge thatday.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • It is known for special menu days, such as Burger Mondays and all-night happy hour on Thursdays.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The couple told The New York Times that the unexpected all-night party at their wedding felt like the right way to celebrate their love.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • His powerful parents are displeased, and our heroine gets pulled into an all-night chase through the streets of New York.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
  • No more all-night rewrites, no more anxious joke pitching, no more feeling like a nerd at the popular kids’ table.
    Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The Philippous were the hot filmmakers of the fest, with all-day, all-night courting by agencies and movie companies before and after the premiere of their flick.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The breathable fabric is made from a material that moves heat away from the body and features a layer of cooling gel for an all-night fresh feeling.
    Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • After an all-night party at Graceland, Elvis reportedly called a few friends upstairs to give away some items from his wardrobe.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 28 June 2024
  • Many of the hostages were young Israelis who were snatched at an all-night music festival celebrating the end of the Sukkot Jewish holiday.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • His father was a truck driver who’d once, in an all-night poker game, won enough to buy a vehicle and start his own short-haul delivery business.
    Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • The World Productions’ drama centers on a violent attack on a teenage girl during an all-night rave.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 18 June 2024
  • All the Japanese living in Vancouver, their effort was so great — even in the downpour, all-night shooting, battle scenes.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • While all-night fire-fighting efforts saved those towers Monday evening, the fire seems to have outflanked firefighters on Tuesday.
    Michele Cardon, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Once the negotiations resumed, there were all-night bargaining sessions to get to the finish line.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And in the province of Olbia, the mayor has forbidden late-night swimming, beach camping, bonfires, and using chairs and towels overnight to curb all-night parties.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Fortune Europe, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Sales agents are also hoping that the good vibes permeating the business will make studios more willing to write big checks and spark some of the all-night bidding wars that have been absent for a while.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • To express his resentment, one first sergeant would put some of the Eagles on all-night guard duty or assign them toilet-cleaning duty.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The pair ended up at an all-night restaurant, and after the evening together, Bruce invited Diane to his home in New Jersey the following week.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • What the play offers is a few longueurs about life and, importantly, an all-night party, rendered with blurry economy and Dionysian delight.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Later on, there would be celebrating in Kansas City, and an all-night party in Miami.
    Michael MacCambridge, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024

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