How to Use night and day in a Sentence

night and day

adverb
  • During the equinox, night and day are the same length.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The difference falls short of night and day, though.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The contrast is already night and day—or, rather, heads and tails.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • No doubt there will be many more see-through moments to come, night and day—watch this space.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Friday was the day of the equinox, the yearly time when night and day have equal length.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • People walk freely in Sayulita all hours of the night and day.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But from a salary cap standpoint, the difference is night and day.
    — Mat Issa, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Their letters are night and day — one born of sorrow, the other born of joy.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • That's because there is nearly the same amount of night and day during an equinox.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Every night and day is opened with a reading from the Bible and a silent prayer.
    — Kim Woodard Osterholzer, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • Life on Earth has evolved to stay in sync with our planet's cycle of night and day.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Along the great crescent sweep of the river, smoke billowed from the pyres that burn night and day.
    — Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • There is such a night and day difference sitting in the head coaching chair.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Getting to experience the care over there was like night and day.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • The organization looks night and day from even a year ago.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Both hemispheres share the sun’s rays equally at the equinox, and night and day are roughly the same length.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The overall tone and atmosphere in the clubhouse and on the bench is night and day from last year.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For me, the differences are night and day since my kids are going to school in-person again.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The difference between the two sides of that coin are as different as night and day.
    — Robert Charles, Chron, 23 June 2021
  • The difference in snow levels is night and day, with last year’s white peaks replaced by browns and greens.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The agents remained in the obstetrics ward night and day as physicians worked to halt her labor.
    — Sheri Fink, New York Times, 10 June 2019
  • The area, near the Seine River, is known to be busy with tourists and locals, night and day.
    — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • For Morgan, the difference from her playing days is night and day.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 14 June 2026
  • Those numbers are night and day compared to the 2022 campaign.
    — Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Brescia says that the growth from the team that played Skyridge in the regular season and this one is night and day.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • The first two rooms will be dedicated to the watches with a backdrop of Paris by night and day.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The difference between the deals the new regime has signed and the albatross deals left behind by the old guard is night and day.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The growth that Ratledge showed between the first half of his rookie season and the second half is night and day.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That starts on the defensive end where the production is night and day from 2018.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The difference between Akok Akok in the last two games and the one in the five before that is night and day.
    — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2021

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