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
  • How’d that secret power work for the Knicks in Game 7 the other day!?
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Joe Biden tried to tell off a journalist the other day.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 16 June 2024
  • The article that came out the other day on the subject was from the hoax-busting site Snopes.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Next … the segment of Dodger fans who can’t resist piling on Dave Roberts was at it again the other day.
    Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 30 May 2024
  • Her old fence is falling, and the other day a possum entered her yard.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This issue came up in the car the other day when my wife Patti and I were driving to someone’s house.
    Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
  • 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
  • From winning super bowls with Sir Bink @khalennotkaylen to having fun bringing Tay back to life on the stage with you the other night….
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Jia Tolentino for the New Yorker just did a big story the other day on Sephora.
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 15 Aug. 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

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