How to Use noontime in a Sentence

noontime

noun
  • The traffic gets heavy around noontime.
  • The hunt includes noontime and evening meals all three days.
    — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Every day a nurse comes to tuck me in for a noontime rest with a hot water bottle.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2026
  • And that meant that our noontime shadows have almost reached their greatest length of the year.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • By noontime, the line snaked away from the entrance for several blocks.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2026
  • On the summer solstice, the noontime sun is at its farthest northern point in our sky.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • All those things were not real, only fragments of my papa’s noontime fever dreams.
    — Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Just before noontime, the Israeli forces withdrew from the area.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
  • By noontime more than 200 people had cast ballots there, with eight hours of voting still to go.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 3 June 2021
  • During a noontime assessment of the bridge’s traffic, a few people came onto the span to eat lunch.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2021
  • On this particular day, the skies were dark and threatening, but at noontime the parking lot was full of cars.
    — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
  • At the noontime high tide there were more than a million people in San Francisco.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Dittrich was given until noontime the next day to provide a final answer.
    — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2015
  • But this is the time when each of us, celebrated or not, casts our longest actual noontime shadow.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Today the sun might appear lower in the sky than usual at noontime, and your shadow will appear the longest of any time this year.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Today the sun might appear lower in the sky than usual at noontime, and your shadow will appear the longest of any time this year.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The parking lots fills up fast around noontime at this Connecticut roadside eatery that’s been feeding folks for more than six decades.
    — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
  • The studio is also used for noontime concerts, family programming, artist recitals, and on and on.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Though by noontime, temperatures are only going to be in the mid-40s.
    — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Likewise, skip the noontime zoo at Jordan Pond House and get your tea and popovers in the late afternoon.
    — Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Roosters offered profane competition to the noontime call to prayer.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • By noontime, though, the inflation hedge seemed fully on, with the price per ounce recovering to virtual breakeven.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The weather was ideal as the Falcon rocket blasted into a brilliant noontime sky.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, the sun has reached its highest point in the noontime sky in the Tropic of Capricorn.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, the sun has reached its highest point in the noontime sky in the Tropic of Capricorn.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, the sun has reached its highest point in the noontime sky in the Tropic of Capricorn.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But now this place of dark deeds gleams from a noontime sun that glistens off the Rose Garden's meringue-like snowy glaze that pours through the doors and tall windows.
    — Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the sun has reached its highest point in the noontime sky in the Tropic of Capricorn.
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the sun has reached its highest point in the noontime sky in the Tropic of Capricorn.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Dec. 2025

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