How to Use the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening in a Sentence

the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening

noun
  • Just saw it the other day, for the first time in years, out of the clear blue.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • A lot of people were just learning about him for the first time the other day.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • So we’ve been favored, I was told the other day, like four or five times all year.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • One co-worker brought in lunch the other day in a paper bag.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • There was a video the other day of someone had sent me of someone claiming to be Teri.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • There’d been no reason to get so angry with him for shooting the bird the other day.
    Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But, no, that's just something that happened the other day.
    Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Kylie had her little boy, it was announced the other day.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That was our question the other day about Maddy Siegrist.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • And believe me, front and center is what happened the other day.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Dontrelle Willis told me that the other day, not by raising his voice, but by looking me straight in the eye.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Her old fence is falling, and the other day a possum entered her yard.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But just the other evening my wife and I were sitting in our living room with friends when there was a tremendous roar.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Of the seven appetizers the other night, the least glamorous turned out to be the most winning.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Some people were chortling over something a Fox reporter did the other day.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Just the other day, someone was lamenting the lack of cool-looking concepts.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Take the other day, for instance, when the Pioneer players had an off day.
    Pat Graham, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Sykes: Someone told me about a game someone played at a dinner party the other day.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Example: Whose hand was in the back of her Instagram story the other day?
    USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The singer-songwriter Margo Price took a seat the other day in Hekate, a non-alcoholic dive bar, and ordered a drink.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Kim is featured in a much more Kim way as well, with the full length of her hair visible and styled in a wet look not unlike how it was worn to the Baby2Baby Gala the other day.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The farro from the other night gets new life with lemon zest, wilted spinach, feta, roasted mushrooms, and red onions.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The entrance plaza outside the main gate at Angel Stadium was quiet and still the other day.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Conversation the other night turned to the subject of money.
    Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • One of their daughters threw up three times the other day; how could Ben not consider all the potential causes?
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That Spaces the other day got motherf—ers spiraling and thinking s—. Come on now.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 June 2023
  • The enduring family force from which Ward conjured all this, though, happened to be seated at a booth right by us the other day.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2024
  • Saira Mueller, one of our gaming contributors, admonished me about that in the office the other day.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Just the other day, Poonawalla received a shipment of 600 million glass vials.
    Jeffrey Gettleman New York Times, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Armisen said that just the other day Albini had texted him about cymbals.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2014

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