DAYTIME in a Sentence

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For DAYTIME, below is one of 20 sentences:
From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing.

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 Meanings and Examples of DAYTIME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
daytime
 n.  the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Well, if I don't want you in the daytime, I'll let you sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Jim said nobody would know me, even in the daytime, hardly.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
3  Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
4  Now," says the duke, "after to-night we can run in the daytime if we want to.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
5  In the South one man all by himself, has stopped a stage full of men in the daytime, and robbed the lot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
6  But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.
7  Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
8  I hide the girls in the daytime, and make merry with them in the evening.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
9  In the daytime it thawed in the sun, but at night there were even seven degrees of frost.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
10  In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing more than a miner's candlestick.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
11  Of course, no one ever met Marius in the daytime.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
12  In the daytime nobody was seen there but mendicants devouring their crusts, and children at play.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
13  From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
14  All was as we had seen it in the daytime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
15  He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  I can't sleep in the daytime.
2  Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.