Get to know Noonday better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like noon or midday.
Noonday in a sentence
Noonday meaning
- The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
- The time of greatest prosperity.
Using Noonday
- The main meaning on this page is: The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day. | The time of greatest prosperity.
- Useful related words include: noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday.
- In the example corpus, noonday often appears in combinations such as: the noonday, noonday dream.
Context around Noonday
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Noonday
- In this selection, "noonday" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, company, album, directors, dream, sunlight and underground stand out and add context to how "noonday" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acedia the noonday devil because and forming the noonday dolomite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "noonday" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with noonday
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An algal mat -covered carbonate bank was deposited, forming the Noonday Dolomite. (12 words)
Noonday Dream is free of obvious singles and deals winningly in textures and atmospheres. (14 words)
They are haunted by the fear of losing Lagos because they know that everything they have done in the dark will be brought into the noonday sunlight. (27 words)
So much could have gone wrong — and most of it did — when Medak and his notoriously mercurial star, Peter Sellers (who died in 1980), headed to Cyprus to film “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” a farcical take on 17th-century piracy. (41 words)
The Illustrated Who's Who of Hollywood Directors, Noonday Press (1995) pp.12–15 He developed it, Altman said, to force viewers to pay attention and become engaged in the film as if they were an active participant. (38 words)
Piper originally came to Los Angeles in 1995 to work in the film industry, and in 2020, she and her husband, Will Dearborn, formed the production company Noonday Underground to produce and direct their own projects. (36 words)
Example sentences (9)
They are haunted by the fear of losing Lagos because they know that everything they have done in the dark will be brought into the noonday sunlight.
Piper originally came to Los Angeles in 1995 to work in the film industry, and in 2020, she and her husband, Will Dearborn, formed the production company Noonday Underground to produce and direct their own projects.
In a 2015 book on the subject, Fr. Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B., called acedia the “noonday devil”, because the temptation has a tendency to strike in the middle of the day.
So much could have gone wrong — and most of it did — when Medak and his notoriously mercurial star, Peter Sellers (who died in 1980), headed to Cyprus to film “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” a farcical take on 17th-century piracy.
There are moments that recall her Communion labelmate Ben Howard, on his latest album, Noonday Dream, and others that nod to the quiet stoicism of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.
Noonday Dream is free of obvious singles and deals winningly in textures and atmospheres.
An algal mat -covered carbonate bank was deposited, forming the Noonday Dolomite.
Deprived of friends or support by the pestilence that walked at noonday, they still retained their good looks and healthful aspect, even when the famine had succeeded to the plague.
The Illustrated Who's Who of Hollywood Directors, Noonday Press (1995) pp.12–15 He developed it, Altman said, to force viewers to pay attention and become engaged in the film as if they were an active participant.
Common combinations with noonday
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: