How To Use Midday In A Sentence

And if you still get midday shine, mattify it by dabbing on a weightless powder that won't leave skin caked.
The blinding midday heat had forced the people to retire to their huts. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
See spectacular stunts Look to the skies at midday. Times, Sunday Times
In the midday sun, the allure of a golden-globed Orthodox church was matched only by the three blue spires atop the straight-backed cathedral.
The urge for a midday nap is built into your body's biological clock.

I remembered Father Dmitri's invitation to call at his church and took the bus there during the Sunday midday break.
The sun is extremely strong here, so we are thinking that a thin veiling of net might be advisable in the midday sun, to keep the blossoms and fruit from drying up, the skins thickening, blossom-end rot, etc. Backyard gardens
The city emerged from the midday heat, a series of slender, shimmering spires that grew larger as we headed upstream. The Sun
They admitted removing the equipment and using it before returning it later. arket was up from the outset, with shares gaining momentum shortly after midday when Wellcome rejected Glaxo's blockbuster 8.9 billion stg bid, saying it was actively seeking a better offer. ANC Daily News Briefing
The two bodies were transferred to the city morgue in Fairview around midday for post-mortem tests.
Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper.
The powers that be have, as I say, addressed this matter and those of us who don't have time to burn at midday will be offered professional dinners in addition to professional luncheons.
Wearing a robe, he stumbles out of bed and opens the drapes and shades, gazing down lovingly upon the housekeeper putting Serge's midday snack into his backpack.
He still insists on wearing a dark suit in the midday sun. Times, Sunday Times
And that may men prove, and shew there by a spear, that is pight into the earth, upon the hour of midday, when it is equinox, that sheweth no shadow on no side. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
He had missed the midday news broadcast that had announced this vital piece of information.
Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
Then at about midday or she calls to say, rather matter-of-factly, I thought, that her waters had broken and that she was having the baby.
They observe a kind of partial fast in the morning, knocking back a single espresso while standing at the counter and perusing Corriere della Sera, allowing themselves a few bites of brioche con marmellata, so as to enhance the pleasure of their midday pasta and meat, their broccoletta rabi, pollo a la cacciatore, penne amatriciana, spaghetti al mare. The Italian Summer
Don't water plants in the heat of the midday sun: early morning or late evening is best.
Strolling unescorted at midday past a major concentration of the huts just a block from the city's Central Avenue, I nonetheless saw many signs of occupation.
A large midday meal in a rural household may include fish baked in a rye loaf, potatoes, barley bread, cheese, pickled beets, cloudberries in sauce, milk, and coffee.
When he gets home, he buys himself a new flat and a Porsche, splashes out on new clobber and heads at midday to the boozer.
For those of you who have been living in a bathysphere beneath polar ice caps that are melting faster than a popsicle left out in the midday sun, LA is ground zero for the Cult of the Youth-Obsessed. Bruce Kluger: From the Mouths of Babes
When we entered the Wat around lunch time, we were struck by the droning chant of a large group of monks prior to their midday meal.
Far in the distance floated the sonorous and mournful cry of the imam calling the midday prayers.
I saw it yesterday - a midday summer movie by myself, one of my few truly decadent indulgences - and found it surprisingly funny and true.
The brothers usually roll into their studio around midday.
Although I had resolved that morning to give up the poncing lark, by now it was several hours past the midday cocktail hour so I drove to north-west London and ponced a whopping £200 off a TV producer I know called Roy, a lovely bloke.
At midday a tipper truck stopped unexpectedly in Market Square. WHITE LIES
Mint juleps were also popular beverages from morning till midday.
Bells from Rome's town hall, the Campidoglio, tolled at midday as television networks interrupted programmes to show footage of New York's devastation, without commentary.
The competition ran from 8am on the Friday to midday on the Sunday.
The mountains were suddenly bathed in a light far brighter than the midday sun.
What kind of person goes into a strip joint at midday on the weekend?
We live indoors all year, consume rubbish, and pollute the atmosphere, and then go on vacations, spending hours on end in the midday sun, which magnetizes the body's acidity to the surface as we sweat out the toxins between beers and sodas. Natalia Rose: From Sunscreen to Sunshine
About a dozen anti-war protesters shouted "terrorists" and held placards saying "Anglian soldiers go to hell" and "butchers of Basra" as soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Poachers, paraded through Luton town centre at midday yesterday. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Many cultures eat the main meal at midday and have a light meal in the evening.
Late afternoons, even middays, can be productive.
The little midinettes, who get their name from their habit of promenading the streets at the midday hour, are the youngest of the workers in the dressmaking establishments.
Those who remain on-site during the workday gather for midday prayers before eating lunch.
When they woke after midday, they would eat and talk quietly together, waiting for the friendly cover of night to fall before moving on.
But even those few cafes at street level wallow in an atmosphere of brumal gloom so dense that, even at midday, you have to peer at the menu to make it out.
Around midday, immaculately groomed horses appear, ridden by Antonio Banderas lookalikes wearing broad-brimmed hats and expressions of unassailable superiority.
But he traveled here primarily for the opening of his own mini-retrospective of five painted and unpainted steel constructions on the Met's Roof Garden (to Oct. 30), ranging over his career from the 1960 "Midday" (above) to his brand new "End Up": "End Up," 2010, rusted steel, cast iron, jarrah wood, collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Lee Rosenbaum: British Art Royalty: Sir Anthony Caro Rules the Roof
Ambac shares were up 30% at 76 cents in midday trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Financial Briefing Book: Oct. 7
A severe attack usually coincides with a stinking hangover and can start as early as midday, from whence I will spend the rest of the weekend brooding on the inevitability of Monday morning.
The kick-off has been moved forward from 3pm to midday.
Henriette, having gone about all the morning in petticoat and bed-jacket, began to prepare herself festally directly the midday-meal was over. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
Started midday, finished midnight (ish).
At exactly midday, the cannon is fired and a frisson of excitement runs through the small crowd of tourists gathered on the ramparts.
A sewing group specialising in cross-stitch, embroidery, quilting and needlework meets on Mondays from 11 am to midday.
The Plaza, with its canopy of acacias, jacarandas and monkey-puzzles offers an oasis of calm from both the traffic noise and soaring heat of midday.
‘I read in a newspaper the other day that Gus discovered me a year ago, playing in a coffee house,’ Smith says, furrowing his brow in the midday sun.
At that hour, midday Friday, the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort had temporarily suspended flights for incoming patients because the ship's casualty receiving department was beyond capacity.
As the old ditty goes, it is only mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun.
Nigerian presidential aides said at midday yesterday that Obasanjo had departed for Liberia.
We hurried out into the roasting midday sun, squinting through the haze at the stand-off on the next hilltop.
Even though it was still some time till midday, diners were greedily eating in the restaurants and cafés.
The hay was belt-buckle high when rain let up, three days' sun baked stalks dry, and by midday all but the far pasture was mowed and raked into windrows.
Like all her neighbours, Deeti was preoccupied with the lateness of her poppy crop: that day, she rose early and went through the motions of her daily routine, laying out a freshly washed dhoti and kameez for Hukam Singh, her husband, and preparing the rotis and achar he would eat at midday. Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Some people call two hours of sleep a midday nap; I call it an accomplishment.
Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
Me and my fellow officer (which was all we could muster at 4 am on a sunday morning) just said “whose the chief grunger … …. all right mate we will be back about midday to kick you out” same everywhere. Rave On….. I think….. Or Maybe Not! Who knows? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Channel 4 reporter and anchorman Krishnan Guru-Murthy had just finished his midday rapid-fire barrage of breaking bad news.
People were beginning to tire in the midday heat.
Use water-resistant suntan lotion / sunblock and even consider wearing a T-shirt while you snorkel, especially under the strong midday sun.
Theo and I climbed and scrambled until midday under a burning sun.
At first there may be a heavy feeling after midday sleep periods. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
By midday the pains had gone from sharp twinges every 5 minutes or so to a constant, agonising pain (Which the Dr at the hospital told me were contractions as my cervix had to open up).
I've been at work this morning and, what with finishing by midday, I've essentially been paid to do something that I've enjoyed, during a time when I'd usually be dossing about the house in my pyjamas.
At midday, you can join the bugs for lunch, and sink your teeth into braaied mopane worms, grasshoppers dipped in chocolate, or spicy termites.
She left the midday sun for the cool of the shade.
the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday
Penn's Dodson, for one, argues that if the big sauropods were warmblooded, "they would have had to stay out of the midday sun to keep from suffering meltdown": sunshine plus its huge internal furnace would have given the beast heat prostration. New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur
Treat the pond at midday on a clear, sunny day with no wind and no prospect of a weather change.
They cluster in the short midday shadows of the coconut grove, where the steamy air softens even the icy cadences of their accents.
The threshers dispersed throughout the yard, some to wash at the trough, some to rest in the shade beneath the poplars, some to the kitchen to nag old Luculla to hurry with the midday meal.
Meanwhile more people are skipping a midday meal completely. The Sun
Gulf Stream's ribbon, sapphires soft as midday May skies, splashes of chromes and greens -- a palette of giantry, a bridge of wizardry; a hundred, nay, a thousand, times greater than that of Utah which the The Moon Pool
At about midday a truck pulled up and the crowd surged forward.
Depending on the time of year and the work schedule, the main meal may be served at midday or in the evening.
It is well after midday and time to catch up with the “saintly” Kofi Annan father of Kojo, described in an Australian newspaper as one of the “international bratpack”. Normal service resumes
The barometer is dropping, so we may be in a blizzard by midday.
July 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - A seven-year-old girl died in a school near Ranchi after falling into a bucket full of hot daal (pulses) prepared for the midday meal, an official said Wednesday. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Mistress Mary worked in her garden until it was time to go to her midday dinner. The Secret Garden
Lunch, at midday, is most often a snack in urban areas, but remains a substantial meal in rural centers.
During the midday meal the older children read edifying passages chosen by Nicholas from religious or secular history.
They found Alba apparently variable; in mid-January it was sometimes lightish from midday to evening.
At half past midday, during lunch, Pétain announces the cessation of hostilities.
The rooms behind the courtyard have little terraces for hiding away from the midday heat. Times, Sunday Times
We spectated as the traffic merged uneasily and shifted itself past the complex intersection at midday.
The Plaza, with its canopy of acacias, jacarandas and monkey-puzzles offers an oasis of calm from both the traffic noise and soaring heat of midday.
The accident happened shortly before midday.
With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
Certainly, over the tropical midday deep oceans, the ocean absorptance must be in teh range of 97-98%, since the near normal incident radiation simply goes on down till something absorbs it. Archive 2008-02-01
The Dow rose fell 19.19, or 0.2 percent, to 11,094.61 in midday trading. GDP Grows 2 Percent In 3Q, Stocks Waver
The results showed that the daily variation of net photosynthetic rate in leaves presented a bimodal curve and an obvious "midday depression" phenomenon occurred.
The all inclusive package ends at midday on the day of departure. The Sun
The vast majority of the fish are ready to be sold to fishmongers, supermarkets and restaurants, and it is still not midday.
I set the soldiers and the cook to clean them after breakfast or tiffin or the midday meal.
In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.
He crossed into southern Iraq from Kuwait about midday in a caravan of sport utility vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police and national guardsmen.
In Lancashire, the bugle sounded at the stroke of midday as riders and hunt followers toasted the Holcombe Hunt with a drop of brandy or port.
Tumultuous come with teeming sweetness to the bitter shore tidelong unrinsed and midday parched and numb with expectation. Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Then at around midday the water was taken over by windsurfers crashing through the waves.
We usually have a simple meal at midday.
Constantinople, spied from the road — first under the blazing midday sun, then by "beautiful Oriental moonlight" on the return trip — views "so sublime and picturesque ... that in an enchanted dream alone one could hope to realize the effect of the mirage Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
At midday I felt my stomach rumbling and I heard Dad's shout for me to go down to lunch.
People in Cap-Haitien sang and danced in the midday heat to marching bands during breaks from political speeches blaring from loudspeakers. 2 Haiti presidential candidates start campaigns
The weaker-than-expected housing data highlighted the continued poor health of the U.S. housing market, sending housing stocks lower -- the PHLX Housing Sector Index was down 3.8% in midday trading -- and leading to selling in other economically sensitive sectors such as industrials and energy stocks. Bleak home-sales report depresses U.S. stocks
The reveille filled the air, the two Garda members ushered on the traffic and under the midday sweltering sun, the tricolour was raised, now flying proudly at full mast.
They sat in mirth and good cheer till noon, when they brought them up the midday meal, all manner meats and sweetmeats of the very best; and they ate and drank costly sherbets and perfumed themselves thereafter with rose-water and scented woods. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It had hairpin bends and was in the blaze of the midday sun - the full monty as far as mountains go.
Rather sourly he acknowledged Peter, glowered at Anna, and settled himself at the table for his midday repast. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Antonius chooses to compose his thoughts while walking in the portico. 111 Crassus, in contrast, retires to an exedra, where he devotes his midday respite to "the closest and most careful meditation. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
But looking for pho bo at midday proved a mistake. Smithsonian
The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never - Gravity's Rainbow
The 16-year-old was allegedly attacked by another pupil when the pair got into a row at midday. The Sun
The mind-numbing assembly line job took its toll by midday.
There, mullet looked as if they were trying to become flyingfish in an effort to escape becoming a midday meal. Undefined
Chat to our experts from midday thetimes. Times, Sunday Times
The Soviet leader usually rose at midday and alerted his bodyguards that he was awake. Times, Sunday Times
Then, at midday, a weird sound came over the flat water - a mysterious, whale-like noise.
But when Mr. Obama delivered his stunningly eloquent and inspiring address at midday on Jan. 20, he provided a powerful hint of what "bipartisan," a term hollowed out by habitual and insincere misuse, means to him now. True Blue Liberal
It was also eaten throughout the year and often replaced bread at the midday meal or evening supper.
About midday, a wardress brought my dinner and strongly advised me to eat it. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
It is only just gone midday. The Sun
In the fall, they might come out plenty in the early morning and late afternoon, with only a few seen in the midday in bad or just plain old cold weather, they will stay in their holes windy is almost always bad for winter, but in the fall if they want to feed you might see a few In New York, what is the best weather for squirrels to come out?
Stepping in from the bright light of midday, you enter an enchanting world of manufactured twilight. Times, Sunday Times
The house is shaded from the midday heat by those tall trees.
Morning mists can further confuse the eye; the midday sun can dazzle it into submission.
I just have a sandwich at midday/for my midday meal.
It is waterfalls at midday, billabongs at burning dusk, galleries of rock art five times older than the Egyptian Pharaohs, and two million magpie geese - and crocodiles in the river any time you're silly enough to risk swimming.
The water is extra salty in the ocean thereabouts, and the midday sun is fierce so near the equator.
Experiments were conducted in the epilimnion of a high-UV system at midday and in late afternoon.
And the cherry on the cake is they are going to have midday racing on a Sunday. The Sun
It was exhausting in the fierce heat of the midday sun. Times, Sunday Times
Substantial midday dinners and high teas were handed through the serving hatch by Jenny, my mother's live-in cook and general maid.
Their modest house, in an underbuilt new neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, stood baking in the relentless yellow light of midday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 20 points in midday trading. GDP Grows 2 Percent In 3Q, Stocks Waver
At midday the meeting was adjourned for lunch.
Whilst passing this end of the island at sea, I could not imagine what the white patches were with which the whole plain was mottled; I now found that they were seafowl, sleeping in such full confidence, that even in midday a man could walk up and seize hold of them. Chapter XXI
Every car on display was immaculately turned out and gleamed in the midday sunshine.
When I arrived at Cronulla at about midday the crowd was fairly calm, rowdy and yobbo-ish, though not violent. The Cronulla Mob
Around midday, immaculately groomed horses appear, ridden by Antonio Banderas lookalikes wearing broad-brimmed hats and expressions of unassailable superiority.
Here, single hillsides are known by a dozen names, each broken down into unmanageably small plots based on only minuscule differences in soil composition or their angle to the midday sun.
He highlighted that taximeters will not be changing over to the Euro until midday on January 1.
The midday sun edged onto the papers, but I wasn't distracted. LEGAL TENDER
He was taken to hospital but discharged at midday yesterday. The Sun
The Soviet leader usually rose at midday and alerted his bodyguards that he was awake. Times, Sunday Times
The summer solstice on June 21 marks the first day of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere, and is the time when the sun rises and sets furthest north and casts the shortest shadow at midday.
Car parks in town centres and out-of-town complexes were full by midday. The Sun
The all inclusive package ends at midday on the day of departure. The Sun
The men's dinner came over at midday; she served them out, made sure that it was eaten, and afterwards gently chivvied the men to their beds for their rest period. You Don't Take Names
On the mirror-like surface of this pond at midday, as it seemed (the scene in the novel takes place at stormy night, and still-stormy early dawn), Maggie sculled her way to the mill.
One large supermarket had sold out of bread stocks by midday and supplies of flour were disappearing from the shelves.
People were beginning to tire in the midday heat.
And as the empty tarmac streets melt in the midday sun, it appears only the flies are buzzing.
In both our replies England sagged like so much peach Melba left out in the midday Melbourne sun.
Now his complexion once more glowed a leathery bronze, and at midday he did away with a hearty meal. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Grey-skinned office refugees fill Edmonton's Churchill Square, the bright midday sun forcing them to squint as they nibble on their pallid tuna sandwiches.
However, Sullivan said, when midday track work causes freight train congestion, sometimes the best thing to do is to move the freight train out of the way to make everything move .... MARC riders on Brunswick Line endure two months of lengthy delays
It was only midday, and he was already exhausted both physically and mentally.
The midday and evening meals may consist of rice or couscous with sauce (often peanut) and/or vegetables.
The accident happened shortly before midday.
Groves signed after the midday deadline while Monkou is suspended.
When midday came they were served with huge pieces of fresh beef, pots of yams and beans, messes of rice and loaves of strange-tasting bread made, Richard was told later, from a root called “cassada.” Morgan’s Run
The dedicated soldier was manning a sangar fortification at a checkpoint when he was attacked at midday. The Sun
The clepsydra comprised the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac each of which, in their turn, spouted water to mark the various hours of the day with the exception of midday, when this elaborate hydraulic mechanism triggered all of the animals simultaneously," Courteault said. China Tries to Stop Auction
At 8am, lessons recommenced and continued until midday.
The city emerged from the midday heat, a series of slender, shimmering spires that grew larger as we headed upstream. The Sun
It was still an hour before noon, and by midday they had shot two impalla, which with four hartebeest made up all the game they could carry back. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
By midday yesterday, medics in stained white coats were still scrubbing blood off the floor. Times, Sunday Times
To show he could, Michael climbed to the top of the highest pyramid, just barely, in blazing midday heat. A Mexico love story
A few hours before midday and an hour out of the mountains, they came to a large field.
Hollyhock sat down to the midday meal at The Garden in exceedingly low spirits, but her father had now got through what she called his arithmetic, and was full of mirth. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief
We would find little use for most of this as we mainly ate breakfast and evening meals at restaurants and the guiding service supplied packed lunches every midday.
The brothers usually roll into their studio around midday.
Visiting time on the ward is from midday but I think they make exceptions for spooked gaijin with a wild look in their eyes (or possibly they make exceptions for any father to be whose wife is expecting soon, I don't know).
Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest.
MOST HUNTERS know an owl hoot can make a tom gobble from the roost, but locator calls can do much more, from making midday birds talk to keeping a hot tom at bay long enough for you to set up. Three Tips for Locating Spring Turkeys
In the meantime, the group is playing on Monday at midday at the jazz conservatorium at Massey.
The main service on Good Friday takes place between midday and 3 pm.
On previous Fridays, the minders have sought to restrict foreign journalists so they could not cover demonstrations after midday prayers on the Muslim holy day.
The free, midday reading, to be held May 1 at Saint Peter's Church in midtown Manhattan, is sponsored by the nonprofit TIPA (Toward International Peace Through the Arts). Undefined
By midday, householders' concerns for their homes were subsiding as the rain stopped.
The Nieuwe Kerk's carillon came streaming around me, and then the cold breezy air was filled with the celestial silvery noise of thousands of bells ringing out midday from all the towers and steeples of Delft.
Three fire engines attended the blaze, described by firemen as ‘very serious’, just before midday.
We briefly enter the "warm sector" this morning, but the cold front may whip up showers or thundershowers that gustily march through by midday. Forecast: Potential thunder, then mega wind
But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley, through which the river flows between high clayey banks, as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace. Weatherwatch: heat and mosquitoes in the Amazon
Even at the height of midday, all of the restaurants were boarded up, all of the stores were boarded up.
The Soviet leader usually rose at midday and alerted his bodyguards that he was awake. Times, Sunday Times
A glittering audience of presidents, premiers and royalty will attend the inauguration of the president, which will be completed by around midday.
It was good going to reach London by midday.
Now his complexion once more glowed a leathery bronze, and at midday he did away with a hearty meal. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
By midday, the temperature hovers about 25 degrees. Times, Sunday Times
Predictably today was utter bedlam at work and, apart from a depressing and slightly embarrassing midday chat with the boss about our team's workload, things went entirely as expected.
All of the children performed excellently, in view of the fact that they had already performed in a matinee at midday.
As midday came, crowds headed for the culinary delights whipped up by Liz Park and her catering team.

How To Use Midday In A Sentence

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