How to Use in broad daylight in a Sentence
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Shame grows in the dark and dissolves in broad daylight.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
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Then three of them raped her, one after the other, in broad daylight.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
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And armed robbers have hit a Gucci store in broad daylight.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
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The heist occurred in broad daylight and was even caught on video by an eyewitness.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
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Many of these crimes are caught on camera, sometimes in broad daylight.
—Ashan Singh, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2022
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To her shock, Ms. Zampieri found olms on aboveground jaunts not just in the nighttime but also in broad daylight.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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The alert warns that murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets.
—Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
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But the religious leaders can't arrest him in broad daylight while the crowds are near.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
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On Saturday afternoon, in broad daylight, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death in a British park.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
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If its gun measures worked, why was a former leader just gunned down in broad daylight?
—New York Times, 9 July 2022
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Two young men make out passionately against a tree in broad daylight.
—Claire Beermann, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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Murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
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And that's not even to mention the deranged theory that Styles may have spit on—yes, spit on—co-star Chris Pine in broad daylight at the film's premiere.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Nov. 2022
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Suddenly, 49-year-old Jamie was shot several times in front of his home in broad daylight.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
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Massacred in small towns, in big cities, inside their own homes, or outside in broad daylight.
—Stefanie Dazio and Larry Fenn, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
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Also, of course, of brazenness, because many of these videos take place in New York City in broad daylight, sometimes with throngs of people close by.
—Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Unprovoked and in broad daylight, a mentally-ill homeless man backed me against a wall and threatened to kill me.
—WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
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There’s not a day that goes by where there’s not a news clip or an article of a brazen retail theft, which sometimes happens in broad daylight.
—Tom Lackey, Orange County Register, 9 July 2024
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Even in broad daylight at the beginning of the concert (Phish performs sans opening act), the lighting was magic.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 12 July 2023
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Advertisement In 2018, a woman was killed by a pack of canines in broad daylight.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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Last week, a 14-year old boy was shot to death in Roxbury in broad daylight; another child was wounded but survived.
—Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
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These curtains were a lifesaver, allowing my babies to sleep through their naps, even in broad daylight and with a house full of people.
—Christina Shepherd McGuire, Southern Living, 15 June 2024
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But the parallels go beyond that, as Randy was killed while trying to keep the killer on the phone to catch him in a public place in broad daylight, similar to what Sam does here.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 Mar. 2023
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The family of a 36-year-old mother who was stabbed near Times Square in broad daylight is speaking out about the unprovoked attack.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 14 May 2024
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Russian regiments and brigades have a bad habit of assembling their troops out in the open, in broad daylight, just 10 or 20 miles from the front line of Russia’s two-year wider war on Ukraine.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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And armed robbers recently hit a Gucci store in broad daylight.
—Bychris Morris, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
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The massacre begins with this sequence of Sons getting picked off one by one in broad daylight — in a motel room, at a coffee cart, at a stoplight.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 June 2022
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The doorbell camera footage shows three people walking on the sidewalk with their hands in their pockets in broad daylight as one car passes.
—Austindedios, oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
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He’d been stabbed to death, eyewitnesses told Ismail, in broad daylight.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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The alligator that killed Serge attacked in broad daylight.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
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