How to Use to the day in a Sentence

to the day

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  • The launch came 13 years to the day since the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • The launch came 13 years to the day since the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • This column first addressed an employee’s duty of loyalty nine years ago, almost to the day.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • The couple, who grew up on the same street, tied the knot in Saint-Tropez almost two years to the day they got engaged in the very same town.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • Basically five months to the day since Nancy Guthrie, Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mom, disappeared, the answers about what happened to her are still unknown.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 30 June 2026
  • Ukraine prompts the return of sketches One year almost to the day after the COVID Diary ended, Russia invaded Ukraine.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
  • Wednesday's ceremony came 38 years to the day after Lefebvre was excommunicated alongside those four bishops — including Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, who led Wednesday's consecrations and was again excommunicated Thursday.
    Noah Labelle, NPR, 2 July 2026

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