How to Use late in the day in a Sentence
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Highs should be near 50 late in the day and will rise through the first half of the evening.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
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Very warm ahead of a cold front that will pass late in the day.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
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Just keep an eye to the sky late in the day and especially the evening.
—Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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Skies begin to clear late in the day, and overnight lows plummet to the mid- to upper teens.
—Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
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Showers and storms are a good bet late in the day, and a few could be strong or severe.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
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Winds are mainly light and variable, starting to come from the south late in the day.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
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Maybe a shower or two late in the day as a front approaches from the west.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
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This was late in the day, mere weeks before The Zone of Interest was set to screen at Cannes.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
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The wind died late in the day, and no one managed to make a move at Harman other than Young.
—Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
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Southeast breezes may kick up late in the day as a quick shower or storm chance moves through.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
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Southeast breezes may kick up late in the day as a quick shower or storm chance moves through.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
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The birdies were not coming easily to anybody late in the day.
—Dallas News, 28 May 2022
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Late, late in the day, the fog lifted as the sun headed for the horizon and afternoon gave way to evening.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
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The dew point will be in the mid to upper 60s early in the morning, then fall into the mid to upper 50s by late in the day.
—Hartford Courant, 30 Aug. 2022
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Rain could be rather widespread at times late in the day or heading into the evening, and some could be heavy.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
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Partly cloudy and warm with a 30% chance of showers or thunderstorms late in the day.
—Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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His music is suffused with a sense of having arrived too late in the day.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
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Snow early Friday and into the evening will be light but could make some roads slippery late in the day.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
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Rain is expected to return to the area late in the day and switcho over to snow showers overnight as lows dip to around freezing.
—Mike Rose, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
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By late in the day, the bridge had reopened, the Village of Los Lunas announced on social media.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
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Temperatures are expected to end up near the mid-40s for highs as winds blow from the northwest and skies try to clear a bit late in the day.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
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The call didn’t come until late in the day, about four hours before Prince was slated to perform before 8,300 fans.
—Jon Webb, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
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Light winds from the north become increasingly gusty late in the day and into the night with the passage of an Arctic cold front.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
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Monday’s breezes have faded with mainly light winds from the northwest at around 5 to 10 mph, shifting to come from the southwest by late in the day.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
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Eating on the go and saving your biggest meal for late in the day has become commonplace.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2023
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Didion made a fire—a habit from their years in California, where, late in the day, the coastal fog creeps landward—and then dinner.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
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Much of the evidence for synchrony effects comes from lab studies that test both larks and owls early in the morning and late in the day.
—Cindi May, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
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Those ads began being censored late in the day Wednesday.
—Karson Yiu, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2022
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The sequence was planned fairly late in the day with a Diwali holiday release date locked.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
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Meteorologists from the office are forecasting between two to five inches of snow and the highest chance to come late in the day on Thursday and into the night.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
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