How to Use night shift in a Sentence

night shift

noun
  • Sleep is the brain’s night shift.
    — Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Does one of them have to go to the night shift?
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The night shift is more frantic.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • There may be more focus on the night shift staffers soon.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This happened to me on a recent night shift.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Eleven hours into my night shift, the fleshy light of dawn fans out from the room.
    — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
  • Is the night shift doing anything at this point?
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • The next time Vasquez saw Ming, the deputy came in during a night shift to get a piece of pie.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The agreement states the night shift premium would jump from 15 cents to $1.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The agreement states the night shift premium would jump from 15 cents to $1.
    — Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Daddy was sleeping because Daddy had worked a twelve-hour night shift again.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Even the insect night shift was silent around the camp and also in the nearby hills, as if nature were holding its breath.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • His mother joked to Patterson that his night shift was like his second workout of the day.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Siobhan and Lily scream about the night shift’s interference.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • Sleep is essentially the night shift for one of your body's most important organs.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Why are fewer Americans working the night shift?
    — Kate Concannon, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Noah [Wylie] has indicated that there is a want for the night shift to still be in the narrative.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Teddy’s commitment to the night shift started long before the first late-night bottle.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Maher sometimes worked the night shift, at times with nurse Vivian Torrente.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Vesey's husband discovered her dead after returning home from a night shift.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 May 2026
  • Discharge Papers • Mateo just clocked in for the night shift, baby!
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This protects the night shift firefighters working on the ground and prevents the fire from getting larger.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The teams have to write out their mixtape lists on a dry-erase board styled like a cassette, with the night shift guessing the day shift’s themes based on their song titles.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • There’s going to be a little inkling of the night shift personality in the next season, which will be lovely.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • My colleagues’ and my own research show the health and performance benefits of napping during night shift work.
    — P. Daniel Patterson, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Hatosy says focusing on the night shift would allow the show to highlight different types of cases and characters.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There are options, any of which would create an opportunity for the night shift to play a more pivotal role on The Pitt.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There is an unusually tight connection between those who work the night shift at WBZ.
    — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Maybe there’s a late-breaking nighttime emergency and the day shift has to stay on, instead of a daytime emergency where the night shift has to show up early.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • About 15 million Americans work the night shift, and their sleep struggles carry stakes far beyond feeling tired.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2026

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