How to Use all-nighter in a Sentence

all-nighter

noun
  • Iris slipped into a red-hot corset look for their all-nighter.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Hollins, scared of sleeping through his alarm, pulled an all-nighter.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
  • Some of those challenges could include all-nighters.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The bag was full of winnings from an all-nighter at the Corinthian.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Zoom calls and Payton’s all-nighter quarterback test.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There was one student who worked incredibly hard, pulling all-nighters to do the research.
    — Nathan Furr, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This is the era of all-nighters, early classes, cafeteria skin, and figuring it all out.
    — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Italian national team is still inspiring all-nighters.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • That means no all-nighters are necessary to witness the potentially historic event.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The lawsuit also said the handbook told workers they are expected to work with intensity and pull all-nighters.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The all-nighter proved to be costly for the Dodgers, as the Jays’ win guarantees the series will return to Toronto.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • An all-nighter before a major launch has been a staple of the tech industry, making for a good story to tell afterward, but this is something different.
    — Andrew Filev, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Looking back at dinner, Randy said that his son seemed exhausted after pulling several all-nighters to study and was dealing with the grief of losing his mother.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • What started out as a viewing of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers became an all-nighter, and the morning after was brutal.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • The competition As the October deadline for Paris approached, the team pulled all-nighters to finalize their project and summarize their results.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Just six months earlier, thousands of miles away, this same young man was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox at his home near Minneapolis.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The chain’s sandwich options include the farmhouse (bacon, ham, cheddar, country pepper schmear on a cheesy hashbrown gourmet bagel), and the all-nighter (double egg and American cheese, smoky chipotle aioli on a cheesy hashbrown gourmet bagel).
    — Jenna Thompson april 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • After The Invite’s premiere, the director pulled two all-nighters listening to presentations from different studios vying to distribute the film.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 June 2026
  • The all-nighter took place at the Langham Hotel in Midtown Manhattan with players Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart, Alysha Clark and Brianna Turner in attendance, according to reports.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The singer has been out and about in New York the past week, going to game four of the NBA Finals, making an emotional speech at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, and apparently pulling an all-nighter at Electric Lady Studios (which might have been a birthday party, and not TS13, but still).
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 June 2026

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