How to Use high noon in a Sentence

high noon

noun
  • The duel was to take place at high noon.
  • We are approaching high noon of the election campaign.
  • The turn of the century was the high noon of the central banker.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Yet most cannot distinguish a sleeping dog from a bush, even at high noon.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2011
  • Flowers cut at high noon are likely stressed and will not survive as long in a vase.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Your prized gladiolus keeled over at high noon.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The song refracts like a prism at high noon, filled with stuttering blips that shapeshift at each turn.
    — Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Lighting can be tricky; photos shot at high noon tend, for instance, to have too much harsh light.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Most people need the rhythm of sunrise and sunset -- and high noon, of course -- to feel their best.
    — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Zipping through the drive thru at your favorite burger place at high noon is a surprise.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Michigan State football will move from high noon to midafternoon next week.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This is the Cold War at high noon, missiles loaded, when spies were the front-line troops.
    — Joseph Kanon, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • The auction will be held — fittingly — at high noon Eastern time.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Sunglasses are a necessity at high noon and a nuisance when the sun goes down.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 19 Mar. 2024
  • At high noon, there was a baby crawling race tied to the Jack-Jack character.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
  • Originally, the sun was the main means of timekeeping, with its broad settings of dawn, high noon and dusk.
    — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
  • At high noon, the sun sat below the southern horizon, but enough color leaked up to stain a patch of sky a deep pastel orange.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • At college authorities for allowing all three forces to converge like a bloody high noon.
    — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
  • Dior still held on to its traditional second slot, staging another show at high noon.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
  • The rover also doesn’t operate at high noon, when the sun is brightest and temperatures soar.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Before the creation of standardized time, many cities had their own local times based on the position of the sun at high noon.
    — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The chess showdowns, in which players square off like gunslingers at high noon, are exhilarating.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Expect a line at high noon, for instance, despite all the competition nearby.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Just remember that every Saturday in July at high noon, there will be siren tests.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2020
  • That same level of comfort and willingness to roam, however, can happen at high noon if the water is stained or muddy.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Each side eyed the other warily for about an hour, like gunslingers on Main Street at high noon waiting to see who would make the first move.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The @Athletics will be sending a bandwagon down Market Street tomorrow at high noon.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • This shelter keeps the meal prep going strong through a light spring rain or the high noon sun of summer, all without sacrificing necessary ventilation.
    — Rosehill Gardens, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Once, when Kitty was in her late 70s, a deliveryman brought in bags of potatoes on a dolly at high noon, during the lunch rush, George said.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022

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