MIDDAY in a Sentence

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Some minutes after, the superior of the convent sent to inform the Musketeers that the burial would take place at midday.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIDDAY
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midday
 n.  the middle of the day
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered in the bright light of midday.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
3  These groups, warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these visions mingle with his dreams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
4  And they deliberate to-morrow, at midday.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
5  At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about there in flakes amid the shade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
6  In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN
7  The branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to embrace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
8  "It is midday," said Combeferre.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
9  It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt-sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
10  Toward midday, Lord de Winter entered.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
11  Some minutes after, the superior of the convent sent to inform the Musketeers that the burial would take place at midday.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
12  At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
13  At midday he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with Prince Dolgorukov to the advanced post of the French army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
14  In the highest army circles from midday on the nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz was fought.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
15  At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  Unless anything untoward happens we should arrive just before midday.
2  We usually have a simple meal at midday.
3  The surface of the road shimmered in the midday heat.