How to Use closing time in a Sentence

closing time

noun
  • And by closing time at the bar, a price had been agreed.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • Most places may run out of product before closing time.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2026
  • If Twitter is a bar at closing time, no one knows what the next stop is.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • Following the news, the stock dropped over 7% by closing time.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • The shelters are open 24 hours a day until their closing time.
    — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Check specific stores for closing time.
    — Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Voters in line by closing time at an early voting site have the right to cast a ballot.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
  • On some nights, the $6 hot dog at closing time was the best money spent and most remembered.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • This time the Miami Heat got closing time right.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026
  • As closing time approached, Solomonsen and his friend began to leave.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The bar was left with nothing but a four-pack of Ballantine Ale by closing time.
    — Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • There are, of course, limits and restrictions, but the hours are from noon until one hour before closing time.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
  • Turns out the evening would take place in a subterranean hideaway, where attendees could kick back long past closing time.
    — Freya Drohan, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Nights at the Ranch lost their punk-rock allure, like someone suddenly turned on the lights at closing time.
    — Meta Valentic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The protagonist in the plot, singing to a woman around closing time at a club, is trying to make a pickup.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025
  • And now, as the store nears closing time, one of the tour participants contemplates what size leg lamp might look best in her house.
    — Annie Zaleski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Each dining hall stays open past the regular closing time one day a week during Ramadan.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • That's when customers can get a free drink with their purchase of another between noon local time and closing time.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That connection also shapes how the restaurant operates on the day-to-day, even at closing time.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
  • For folks abroad, those who made it inside the consulate offices by closing time would have 30 minutes to cast their vote.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024
  • As trading opened on Monday, stocks briefly fell, but the market as a whole rebounded by closing time.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Firefighters were called here around noon, just minutes after the bakery's normal closing time, to find the blaze.
    — Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The 49ers, this Sunday’s visitors, know all about closing time, too.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In the evening, near closing time, the attitude of the staff conveys a kind of permission to unwind, a weary slowness.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The lender boasts a speedy closing time — as little as 17 days in some cases, per Fairway's website.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 29 July 2024
  • Steve Berke was one of several bar owners who urged the commission to rethink its plan to move back closing time.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
  • At the poll’s closing time on Sunday, Martinez finished with 67% of the vote.
    — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The belief over this next week is that asking prices are going to come way down once players realize that closing time is fast approaching.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Suspects cased stores, then, after closing time, smashed windows and headed straight to the highest-value Lego sets.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Trump's tariffs were announced after the markets closed, and the disclosure form does not say whether the shares were sold before or after closing time.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025

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