[
US
/ˈoʊvɝˈnaɪt/
]
ADVERB
-
happening in a short time or with great speed
these solutions cannot be found overnight! -
during or for the length of one night
the fish marinates overnight
ADJECTIVE
-
lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
an all-night drugstore
an overnight trip
a nightlong vigil
How To Use overnight In A Sentence
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight. Times, Sunday Times
- In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
- The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight. Times, Sunday Times
- Jake changes overnight from drippy layabout to high roller.
- There wasn't a puff of wind for most of an unseasonally cold day and the heavy overnight rain had softened both the fairways and greens to make them more receptive.
- Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
- Several were taken to a police precinct and left there overnight.
- Fifty consecutive, nonobese, habitually snoring, otherwise-healthy children (age range: 6-9 years) and 50 age -, gender -, and ethnicity-matched obese children (BMI z score: 1.67) underwent an overnight polysomnographic evaluation, followed by a multiple sleep latency test the following day. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Sleep Apnea a Significant Problem in Sleepy Kids?