How to Use closing time in a Sentence

closing time

noun

• If Twitter is a bar at closing time, no one knows what the next stop is.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Following the news, the stock dropped over 7% by closing time.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 23 May 2024
• When school is back in session, the business will open around 2 or 3 p.m. with the same closing time.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2023
• The men drank and bowled until the 11 p.m. closing time, then walked out to their cars together.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The shelters are open 24 hours a day until their closing time.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
• On some nights, the $6 hot dog at closing time was the best money spent and most remembered.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• The police shut down the Pier a half-hour earlier than its usual closing time of 11 PM.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 20 July 2024
• On Black Friday, the store opens at 6 a.m. but closing time varies by location.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Nights at the Ranch lost their punk-rock allure, like someone suddenly turned on the lights at closing time.
  — Meta Valentic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• In the evening, near closing time, the attitude of the staff conveys a kind of permission to unwind, a weary slowness.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• For folks abroad, those who made it inside the consulate offices by closing time would have 30 minutes to cast their vote.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024
• Micky’s Joint, a bar and restaurant that just opened in Hamilton, features late-night happy hours from 9:30 p.m. to closing time.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• One day, at the zoo’s closing time, Mrs. Pickles happened to lay her eggs in the soil in front of a herpetology keeper.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2024
• As the hour grew closer to 7 p.m., the usual closing time, and the sun began to fade, the hall was still crowded, as staff began to lay out plates, desserts and drinks for iftar.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• At closing time at midnight, the East Texas country dance hall typically turns the lights on and lets customers have one last dance.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023
• Each dining hall stays open past the regular closing time one day a week during Ramadan.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• There are dinner seatings at 5, 7 and 9 p.m., and Spellbound is expected to close around midnight, though there is no hard closing time.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• There are dinner seatings at 5, 7 and 9 p.m., and Spellbound is expected to close around midnight, though there is no hard closing time.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• That's when customers can get a free drink with their purchase of another between noon local time and closing time.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
• Doors open at 10 a.m. both days; closing time is 6 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• Hours will be extended from the normal closing time of 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Thursdays through Labor Day.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
• The roof over the library’s children’s section buckled shortly before closing time due to layers of heavy snow piled into a 5-foot drift.
  — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
• For the surging Bruins, closing time was closeout time against the same Oregon team that had beaten them by five in late December in Eugene.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• That is, of course, until closing time comes around, leading to the titular lyrics implying taking someone home after the last drink of the night is finished.
  — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Jeff McKean, an attorney who represents El Chila, blamed much of the violence on a taco truck that parked outside the bar around closing time.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
• For instance, Nicole Kidman came by Mystic Pizza around closing time once while filming a project nearby.
  — Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The boxes arrived less than an hour before closing time at the registrar of voters' office, just meeting the deadline after a six-month drive.
  — Kevin McGill, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
• But this rollercoaster of scoring the past three games is why there remains concern about Tyler as a go-to player at closing time (and why the Heat continue to miss Jimmy Butler).
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• People lined up deep into the cold winter night on election day and hours after the official poll closing time, with some votes being cast at 3 a.m. the following day.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 June 2024
• Even on typical nights, guests can enter an attraction queue until just before the park's closing time.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024