How to Use noontime in a Sentence

noontime

noun
  • The traffic gets heavy around noontime.
  • At noontime on a recent day, there was a line out the door.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • And that meant that our noontime shadows have almost reached their greatest length of the year.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Just before noontime, the Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
    Josef Federman, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Likewise, skip the noontime zoo at Jordan Pond House and get your tea and popovers in the late afternoon.
    Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2021
  • By noontime more than 200 people had cast ballots there, with eight hours of voting still to go.
    Don Stacom, courant.com, 3 June 2021
  • But now this place of dark deeds gleams from a noontime sun that glistens off the Rose Garden's meringue-like snowy glaze that pours through the doors and tall windows.
    Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
  • At the noontime high tide there were more than a million people in San Francisco.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The noontime lines again trail from nearly every truck serving tacos and mariscos along Olympic Boulevard in Boyle Heights.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2021
  • During a noontime assessment of the bridge’s traffic, a few people came onto the span to eat lunch.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Pacheco was about to stage a free noontime reading of the closing arguments for Lopez vs. Seccombe.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2015
  • Today the sun might appear lower in the sky than usual at noontime, and your shadow will appear the longest of any time this year.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 21 Dec. 2021
  • All those things were not real, only fragments of my papa’s noontime fever dreams.
    Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • At the dam, a steady stream of water cascaded over the 14-foot-high stone wall as the noontime sun filtered through a canopy of oak trees, Douglas fir and second-growth redwoods.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Torrential rains at noontime at the Ruth Minchen Athletic Complex forced the sudden change of venues.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 29 July 2019
  • Though by noontime, temperatures are only going to be in the mid-40s.
    Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Crews were able to get the fire under control by noontime, per Frederick County Fire and Rescue.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • No more noontime meals in the cafeteria after Thursday.
    Bob Greene, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • For several days before and after each solstice the sun appears to stand still in the sky, i.e., its noontime elevation does not seem to change from day to day.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • The studio is also used for noontime concerts, family programming, artist recitals, and on and on.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Dittrich was given until noontime the next day to provide a final answer.
    Fox News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • But this is the time when each of us, celebrated or not, casts our longest actual noontime shadow.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The weather was ideal as the Falcon rocket blasted into a brilliant noontime sky.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • On Saturday, in Washington, however, many of us seemed to cast no noontime shadow of any length.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • By noontime, though, the inflation hedge seemed fully on, with the price per ounce recovering to virtual breakeven.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The bulk of the snow will exit Connecticut by noontime, but a few snow showers could linger in eastern areas until the early afternoon.
    courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Down the street, children with butterfly nets and oversized backpacks poured out of Seaton Elementary School at the noontime dismissal.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Among the more shocking examples was a noontime robbery in April in which the victim was followed leaving a downtown jewelry store.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The two sides warming up as noontime approached offered some semblance of normalcy, as did the band playing throughout the afternoon.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021

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