How To Use Midnight In A Sentence

I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours. Times, Sunday Times
The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.

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EXPLORE the future with one of my gifted psychics or astrologers any day from 9am to midnight. The Sun
It still wants half an hour till midnight.
Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
She's wearing a print dress, low-cut of course, frilly sleeves, a quarter-inch of makeup, and her hair is dyed midnight black.
All at once the apparent walls of the room turned from a gold color to a black dotted with stars, most like a midnight sky.
Yes | No | Report from bullshitter wrote 1 week 3 days ago it's midnight and I still can't stop laughing about that lab winning with a stiffie. Best Gun Dog Contest
I promised the babysitter that we'd be home by midnight.
The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director. New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
The church clock struck midnight.
It was around midnight and I'd only completed four pitches since daybreak.
Seething, she planned to make a midnight visit to his own regimented acres at dead of night later in the summer. SANDS OF TIME
The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
An actor ( "Midnight Run" and those dog movies) and natural-born raconteur, he takes over Snyder's CNBC slot with the kind of dryly comic anecdotes he's filled three books with. Late Night Unplugged
That far north, the moon the midnight sun for 24 hours around the clock.
He is wearing an old leather jacket, black jeans, midnight blue sweatshirt.
When he was still awake he thought he heard the faint creak of a floorboard, he immediately filed that away as Kira getting her midnight snack.
The guests unmasked at midnight.
We finally got home at midnight.
Observations took place in clear weather and ended at midnight, prior to moonrise.
We use to go for a midnight walk during the midsummer.
Jessica is also a Midnighter with powers that are apparently so fierce, the darklings decide to emerge from the outer badlands and go after her. REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
And so I wore a Jebean gown in the blood-at-midnight color of sangoire, which only I, as the sole anguissette in living memory, was entitled to wear. Kushiel's Avatar
Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight.
We heard gunshots round about midnight.
After midnight the storm finally blew itself out, and the lightless convoy moved out.
A short while before midnight the gods adorned themselves in finery and jewels. Mythology and legends of the Nahua people: part 3
It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.
Have the tipsy revellers in the back row of pews at midnight mass come to share the wonder of the virgin birth?
I want you home by midnight. And I mean midnight.
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
He just kind of ambled out of the alley like he was out for a midnight stroll or something. Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 (ANSI Edition)
He still stayed there beyond midnight.
A refund requires "… a signed and dated written notice postmarked prior to midnight of the business day after the date of this agreement."
The best reader-submitted photobombs submitted by midnight this Friday, will win one of 10 double passes to the Gold Coast premiere of Hugh Jackman's new film.
But, as of midnight tomorrow, government funding for that contract will stop.
The arrival times given are those of the centre of the first main pulse after midnight at infinite frequency at the barycentre of the solar system, in seconds.
At about midnight they were suddenly awakened from their sleep by a loud noise and the earth trembling, which caused the whole building to shake about them. The Gods of Asgard
Chat with one of my psychics and astrologers from 9am to midnight. The Sun
Take an end-of-summer city break in Oslo and enjoy the bustling nightlife as the bars fill up to catch the end of the midnight sun.
As the night draws to a close and the remaining few are left in the town's pubs, landlords and landladies call time at 11 before you stagger into the Indian-Chinese-Italian-Mexican-or Kebab shop takeaway and you're in the midnight hour.
There were begging letters, midnight telephone calls.
He looked at the moon and made the time to be midnight.
Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight.
There will be a disco from 9 pm to midnight and a mystery guest will do the honours in presenting the medals.
After midnight, outspanning in a piercing wind, we formed square; main guard was posted over the General's car, and those lucky enough to escape turn of duty huddled together under cloaks and dozed fitfully until two-thirty. With Botha in the Field
Midnight at the Stanhope Gate was only a marginal improvement on three o 'clock in the porch of St. Georges. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
It won't go on beyond midnight.
The church clock chimed midnight.
He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.
He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
The President spoke after signing the deal into law just hours before the midnight deadline. The Sun
Observers south of the equator can see Scorpius rising after midnight. Compare Delta's brightness to Beta Scorpii, magnitude 2.6, and Antares, magnitude 1.1.
By midnight we had crossed the Ghadaf and the quag felt too awful for further progress. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
By his own admission, Rough is one of football's midnight runners.
The event will snake through the city centre culminating with a fireworks display above Leeds Town Hall at midnight.
The deadline is tonight at 12 midnight EST, so submit pictures of your eco-cutey today! LAST CHANCE TO ENTER INHABITOTS ECO-CUTEY CONTEST! | Inhabitat
We have two officers walking the beat after midnight.
We heard gunshots round about midnight.
Saturday night was especially busy; newsboys in the entertainment districts sold theatrical papers and early Sunday editions long after midnight.
The hotly anticipated annual ensemble show at the Assembly Rooms will be Midnight Cowboy, with an all-star cast still to be announced.
The children had a midnight feast in their tents.
AS THE clock ticks past midnight and today moves into tomorrow, the new world rankings will be spat out from a computer in Florida.
The Italians, including some of the world's wealthiest players, were pelted with tomatoes when they sneaked back home on a midnight flight.
Party hats, champagne at midnight and a whole lot of hoopla accompany the country pleasure of the Coyote Band.
I'll be home after midnight, so don't wait up for me.
The first chime of midnight. Times, Sunday Times
It's gone midnight and the pubs are disgorging the last few stragglers.
They contained fresh and astonishing details of underground movements and midnight rendezvous.
Make sure you're home by midnight.
One night she was woke up at midnight, and when she went downstairs, she saw a strange squinny-eyed, little ugly old fellow, who asked her to come to his wife who was too ill to mind her baby. English Fairy Tales
It was sometime after midnight—after four hours in that shit-hole—when a senior officer showed up, said he had spoken with the regatta organizers, and he was letting us go as an exception to the rule. Fallin’ Up
And there are stranger things than these, -- fragments of spiced and bituminized humanity to be shown to visitors who are not nervous, nor given to midnight terrors. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
They have until midnight tomorrow to table a bid. Times, Sunday Times
Chris is asleep after burning the midnight oil trying to finish his article.
The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man; kindled fires; caused, as a delicate attention, the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal; and, in short, comported himself so hospitably, and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker, that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two, in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw. Stories of Childhood
He got lost and used his radio to call for help just before midnight. The Sun
If she wants her curfew moved up, you might compromise on a midnight curfew on weekends for a period of a month. You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20
When the music resumed at midnight, I had no choice but to go sit in the living room and look at pictures of lolcats until it stopped.
The clock strikes midnight and suddenly they are no longer perceived to be beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
goes to bed before midnight.
For you, Christmas is about family and traditions, and you rather enjoy the rituals of going to church at midnight and turning off the lights before flaming the plum pudding.
between the two sides ceased at midnight.
Insurance underwriters have given notice that they will cancel war liabilities from midnight on Monday.
Whenever excited, the composer would strum his tune on the piano even at midnight.
No one had failed to see the awe-inspiring sight: it was so bright that it outshone the sun and turned the night into a veritable midnight afternoon.
Just after midnight, the Russian Mission Control centre will give the command for undocking from the International Space Station.
Gen Musharraf left for Agra airport shortly before midnight after spending an hour with Mr Vajpayee before departing.
He gave reporters the slip by leaving at midnight.
Simon said he has grown accustomed to regularly hearing what sounds like a raging party downstairs - usually after midnight.
By midnight I was virtually comatose.
We ate homemade soup, soft pretzels and drank gluhwein – then we played Guitar Hero until midnight. Happy New Year! « Were rabbits
The ship pulled in to the shore at midnight.
I left the party at some time way after midnight, so got the very last tube into King's Cross last night.
Advanced registration for both meetings closes at midnight EDT on May 17, 2004.
Time and again Mr. Casey introduces interesting people—the fellow who rowed so hard with him in the two-man master's scull that he ripped the tendon off his hip bone in mid-race; the young coed who accompanied him on a 50-kilometer, midnight hike to celebrate his 50th birthday; the fellow named Oscar who proved a rock when the going got tough in Outward Bound. Extracurricular Activities
Midnight: the witching hour, in this empty, godforsaken, lonely place. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
It's a bit thick to expect me to work until midnight!
Are you two anonymous riders privy to the knowledge of the Midnight Rider's name?
Unfortunately waning gibbous moon is up between midnight and dawn – the best hours for meteor - watching.
Exam time was near, and more and more pupils were burning the midnight oil.
I mainly go to bed around midnight.
With his wheezing voice and affinity for using his lecture wand as a torture instrument, any midnight Sabbath sounded better.
He fell asleep just past midnight with tolerable ease.
The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
Now they are holding midnight sessions of congress to overturn 19 state judges and interfere in people's most personal decisions.
Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
And young-eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
At midnight the owner turns off the outside lights so we can see the stars.
Jimmy's niece Lisa gave birth at midnight to a bouncing baby boy.
She takes her exams next week, so she's burning the midnight oil.
Other colours include midnight black, ocean blue, rose pink and olive green.
Midnight at the Stanhope Gate was only a marginal improvement on three o 'clock in the porch of St. Georges. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
By midnight the bottle's empty and he crawls into bed, mindful of another important meeting early next morning.
Roughly around midnight the disco music stopped and a chain of exotic dancers paraded onto the floor.
The hotel was a pleasant place and he'd managed to wangle enough petrol to drive her home at about midnight each time. IN LOVE AND WAR
I got home after midnight and Dad gave me the third degree.
The Yacht pub in Clontarf was buzzing at midnight last night and strong drink was being consumed at a terrific rate.
She then left her room with a spritz of her favorite perfume… Midnight Romance.
If it's the latter, electronic dance music makes you want to put on sunglasses at midnight and drive your stubbled, tragic self into the night.
Texts sent after midnight tonight will not be entered but you will be charged. The Sun
Building stashes of possible fabrics makes the construction of color quilts possible even if we sew at midnight or dawn in our jammies.
They reeled out of the pub at midnight.
But after weeks of horse trading and public pronouncements, the contours of a deal were said to be emerging just hours before the midnight deadline. Times, Sunday Times
About midnight we lost the main topgallant sail, which is the next to the highest of five sails on the mainmast.
the program was on the air from 9 til midnight
Clad in thermal underwear, a drysuit, flippers and gloves, and wearing weights on her legs and belt, she set off at midnight.
She pointed to the left side of the room, to a table that a boy with midnight black hair and a girl with blonde hair up in pigtails sat at.
There had been no warning of his coming — a clatter of hoofs at midnight, a lathered horse in the stable, and Tom had appeared, the salt of the sea on his face as his mother attested. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Just before midnight, the square filled up with drunken revellers.
Fortunately I am a light sleeper, so I should be able to thwart any attempts to slice bits off me for a tasty midnight snack.
At half past midnight in the bar of the Bull Bay Hotel I meet Pat, an old diving instructor.
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In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight.
She said the work to repair the damage to the stopcock went on under floodlight until after midnight.
At midnight, like most New Yorkers, I was far from the freezing cold of the street, blissfully free to drink as much as I liked.
Each year, thousands of devotees ascend the mountain at midnight under a full moon, chanting mantras, to offer their gifts to the ancestral spirits.
We thought we heard the stealthy crunch of a boat beaching at midnight and footsteps climbing the cliff path.
a civil day begins at mean midnight
There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.
St. Patrick's Cathedral is famed for its midnight mass on Christmas eve.
Every year, at the start of the 68-mile Midnight Run in Chatham, snowsuited families alight from pickup trucks along the side of the road. Chicago Reader
At the front of the line were the all-nighters, hard-core sci-fi fans, amateur Civil War historians, and chasers of obscurities, rumored to have been there since before midnight.
It was almost midnight.
Thursday, August 1st started off badly, because at midnight I was still almost six hours away from home with a truckload of furniture.
It's getting on for midnight.
Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe.
It was in Margaret's watch, from midnight till four in the morning, when the attack was made. CHAPTER XLVII
Paramedics helped save the life of a 17-year-old man who suffered serious head injuries after being glassed in the pub at midnight last night.
Me and Sam's goin 'on' Midnight Pass 'ter-night, ain't we, Sam?" inquired a young "timeserving" fellow. "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
At midnight I could hear in my bed the terrific gusts and the sounds of a driving deluge.
Third Prize: L$250 cash plus L$1000 ~flirt~ storecard for entries is midnight on Monday 30th March 2009. Fashion World of SL
Backing her up was the band 'Midnight Express'.
Quick quick, I must get this in before the clock strikes midnight.
Dancing with the devil in the midnight sun.
We both recognized it as a moccasin, because the snake rule was simple: All snakes dropping into your boat at midnight in the river are cottonmouth moccasins, period.
Long queues at the checkouts at midnight, and not much more than a dozen spaces left in the car park.
Sometime after midnight on July 22, she went out for a walk.
He could see that her body was naked beneath the midnight blue silk of her robe and her scent overpowered his senses.
The meridian at midnight at the time of the spring equinox is called a "colure," -- the "autumnal colure," because the sun crosses it in autumn. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
The two sides agreed to resume negotiations a few minutes before midnight June 25 when the old agreement expired.
Ilderim and I and the remaining three waited until nightfall, and then set off on foot to the thicket where we were to rendezvous; there were the first six horses and a sowar waiting, and round about midnight Shadman and his companions came clattering out of the dark to join us, crowing with laughter. Fiancée
By the time we cleared immigration and customs formalities and took a van to Makkah it was past midnight.
Three times a year, UCLA's unofficial Undie Run brings out thousands of skivvy-clad students looking to unwind -- and then some -- from finals week by meeting at midnight to run. The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Don't stay there beyond midnight.
The clock showed midnight.
At midnight on Friday, December 12, 1919, that rocket reached its apogee.
Next was a deep midnight blue dress, the neckline was draped with chiffon; the bodice was silk and was cut as an empress waist, below that the skirt split to reveal a brocade fabric with gold beaded stars randomly placed.
The British footguards had been infected with Methodism and some of the guardsmen gathered for a midnight prayer meeting until a Coldstreamer officer growled at them to give God and himself a bloody rest. Sharpe's Battle
Kitchener set off in uniform just after midnight on September 1 by special train and fast cruiser. Times, Sunday Times
At midnight she blew the candles out and switched on the kitchen and hallway lights.
We sold malwa all day and sometimes up to midnight. New Vision Frontpage News
At midnight, I decided to call a congregant of mine in California, where it was three o’clock in the afternoon. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith
We didn't arrive at our hotel until after midnight.
We also saw a bit of energy in the flashback: I kind of glossed over this last week, but according to the show, eight weeks ago Samuel was about 15 years old and he kept on asking his fun-killing older brother to let him stay out after midnight. 'Heroes' recap: Let's give thanks | EW.com
She went into labour at midnight and the baby was born at 8 am.
Started midday, finished midnight (ish).
About midnight four days later, the headquarters building of the Housing Executive burst into flames and was badly damaged.
Around midnight, Costello responded to a question by Jessica Verilli, who asked about details of the meeting with a mere: "@jess sadly no. i was in a part of the bay area where the tweets cant get in or out! Obama holds Silicon Valley summit with tech tycoons
At midnight on October 17, Bren Adan and his remaining officers reached the Suez Canal and established a bridgehead. NIMITZ CLASS
In Frost at Midnight, Coleridge, with his young son at his side, muses on his own childhood in London, where he ‘saw nought lovely but the sky and stars’.
Bush issued a rule at the end of his term intended to serve as a poison pill against using endangered species protections to regulate climate change; Obama has hinted he would repeal that "midnight rule," but he has yet to do so, despite congressional authority to revoke the Bush rules with the stroke of a pen. Edward Humes: Climate Change Decision in 11 Days: Ostrich or Hawk
He jiggled the reigns and clucked at his team of midnight-black horses.
He got lost and spent hours looking for the station, and anyway it was past midnight by the time he got home.
Some time after midnight, he retired to bed.
When it was midnight, she went to the King's horse called Katar, who was very wicked, and quite untameable. Indian Fairy Tales
ALGIERS - Christians in Algeria, where foreigners have become targets of Moslem fundamentalist attack, had a bleak Christmas this year with armed police guarding the cathedral in Algiers and traditional midnight mass cancelled. ANC Daily News Briefing
Del got to her feet and pulled Keaton's sweatshirt on over her cami, shoving her hands into the pouch as she opened her door, deciding on a midnight snack.
Against a flat midnight-blue background the roistering figures tumble about, squabbling with each other or brandishing colourful fire-sticks.
The ship leaves at midnight
She arrived home on the stroke of midnight.
The first results were not declared until gone midnight, with sackloads of extra votes arriving after a last-minute sweep of postboxes by the Royal Mail.
MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a flood advisory for Maui until midnight. Undefined
Upon arriving we found no reception desk, and no one took my credit card details in case I raided the minibar at midnight. Times, Sunday Times

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