How to Use on the day in a Sentence

on the day

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  • Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
  • Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026
  • Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Tickets cost $5 and can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times vary by state.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026
  • Tickets cost $5 and can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times vary by state.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • The service is meant to streamline the check in process on the day of departure.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Nora Murillo Moreno said the firm told her about the fake abuse claims on the day before her green card interview.
    — ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • Hull said that on the day of the shooting, Robinson was seen on video making at least three visits to the campus in a car and on foot.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Peters said that on the day of the shooting, officers on an abatement detail came across a man who had a no-bail warrant and was considered a parolee at large.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
  • But this team on the day battled, just as Canadian soccer players had battled for generations for viewers.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • Best fireworks viewing spots for pedestrians People walking on the Strip will find the best views at different places depending on the day.
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Strategy , Coinbase — The stocks were higher as bitcoin prices crossed $61,000, up more than 2% on the day.
    — Davis Giangiulio,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • The Cboe Volatility index (VIX) , known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, traded around 16 on the day.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But on the day of that hearing, prosecutors say Fritsch drove from Southern California across the border into Mexico.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • International search-and-rescue teams started arriving in La Guaira on the day Perez’s relatives were pulled from the Belo Horizonte.
    — Joshua Partlow, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
  • The second of two launches on the day, and both a day after the Blue Origin New Glenn static fire explosion at Launch Complex 36, which was 6 miles to the south.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • The second of two launches on the day, and both a day after the Blue Origin New Glenn static fire explosion at Launch Complex 36, which was 6 miles to the south.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • The defendant, arrested on the day of the murder, remained in Wilkes County Jail on Tuesday, according to a third-party inmate information service used by the county.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 July 2026
  • Elevate didn’t receive investment on the day, but another founder in the room approached Baldet and told her the concept would be perfect for Selfridges, offering to introduce her directly to the Foodhall team.
    — Lela London, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Alberta Parks issued a bear warning for Mount Engadine Lodge near the Rummel Lake Trail at Spray Valley Provincial Park on the day of the encounter.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun was the first to report, last Friday, on the day of the NHL draft’s first round, that Waddell had begun listening to offers for Werenski.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Space Launch Delta 45 stated that anomaly would not affect other launches, and the SpaceX launch was the first of two planned on the day from Canaveral with a ULA Atlas V launch slated for later on the day.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • Space Launch Delta 45 stated that anomaly would not affect other launches, and the SpaceX launch was the first of two planned on the day from Canaveral with a ULA Atlas V launch slated for later on the day.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • Our banks are also participating in Monday's rally, with Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo both up more than 2% on the day and comfortably outperforming the S & P 500's financials sector.
    — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • Leading up to Sunday, July 4, 1976, more than 100 large sailing ships, including 16 square-riggers, came into the harbor en masse — and on the day itself, they were joined by perhaps 5,000 small craft, from tiny catamarans to good-size yachts.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026

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