How to Use diurnal in a Sentence

diurnal

adjective
  • Winds will be diurnal in nature.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This doubling of the diurnal might happen once a year.
    — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Humans are diurnal creatures, meant to be awake during the day and to wind down at night.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 5 July 2021
  • That is the diurnal nature of night and day, decline and rebirth.
    — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That, along with a good diurnal shift in temperature, helps keep the wine fresh.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • We are used to the diurnal cycle of waking, sleeping and dreaming.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Scientists saw that the eye size and shape were similar to those of modern diurnal owls.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Our song bird species are diurnal (daytime) feeders and eat insects that are active during the day.
    — oregonlive, 6 June 2020
  • Given the diurnal minimum of heating early in the day, any storms will struggle against that.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • This diurnal shift ripens Lodi’s produce and punches up its flavor.
    — Ligaya Malones, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2026
  • As part of its new analysis, the team studied the patterns of 583 diurnal species.
    — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But humans are a diurnal species, meant to be active during the light phase and sleeping after dark, social calendars be damned.
    — Diane Stoprya, The Cut, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Overnight lows will drop into the low 40s under clear skies, marking a 30-degree diurnal swing in some spots.
    — Senior Newsroom Meteorologist, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That leaves her beachside club almost the entire day to entertain the diurnal, even if that’s the only trait some of her patrons have in common.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • Passive house systems work really well in climates with big diurnal temperature swings, like the desert.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2019
  • The most significant shift was in cheetahs, a typically diurnal species -- or one that spends its awake hours during the day -- the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Hey, work is a real thing, and so are house chores, errands, meetings and all manner of wildness that society still dictates happen in diurnal time schemes.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Snow accumulations may be affected by diurnal trends and sun angle.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Snow accumulations may be affected by diurnal trends and sun angle.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Snow accumulations may be affected by diurnal trends and sun angle.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • These sorts of scenes seem to create a theater set across which Tillim’s subjects move, like characters enacting a diurnal purpose.
    — Carole Naggar, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2019
  • In addition, diurnal primates showed more blinks than nocturnal species even after controlling for body size factors.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2013
  • Sleepover camp options give festival goers a break from the commute and offers a ton of diurnal activities.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • In the past year, that emphasis on diurnal rhythms has become pertinent in a way that Rountree could not have anticipated.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • This diurnal pattern is also seen on Mars—something scientists weren’t expecting to detect from the surface.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Measurements are taken in the morning, afternoon and evening to accurately capture the diurnal warming of a city.
    — Haley Brink and Derek Van Dam, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • For Sunday and Monday, a slight warming and drying trend is expected with typical diurnal winds.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • For Sunday and Monday, a slight warming and drying trend is expected with typical diurnal winds.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The arid, high-evaporation climate quickly concentrates flavor, while significant diurnal swings push the whisky deep into and out of the oak.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The diurnal swing forces the whiskey deeper into the wood than typical Kentucky maturation, and the dry desert air drives evaporation hard.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

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