How do you use Overnight in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like long, plus the exact meaning.
Overnight in a sentence
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Overnight meaning
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
Synonyms of Overnight
Using Overnight
- The main meaning on this page is: During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past. | In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- Useful related words include: nightlong, all-night, long.
- In the example corpus, overnight often appears in combinations such as: an overnight, the overnight, overnight and.
Context around Overnight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overnight
- In this selection, "overnight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, weekday, conversion, aging, stays, closures and lows stand out and add context to how "overnight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 0 10 overnight after complaining, 19 c overnight, happen overnight, overnight low and stay overnight. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overnight" sits close to words such as engage, object and marvel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overnight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Of course, China couldn’t accomplish this sort of conversion overnight, but its population isn’t aging overnight. (18 words)
Eastbound weekday overnight closures will last 8 weeks, followed by 8 weeks of westbound lane weekday overnight closures. (18 words)
Five more vehicles have been targeted by arson attacks overnight, following on from eight vehicles attacked overnight Monday. (18 words)
We wish we could report better news this morning, but forecast models have continued to trend westward overnight and now have a potentially very dangerous category 3 or 4 hurricane bearing down on the upper Texas coast overnight Wednesday into Thursday. (41 words)
The central bank said it had raised the overnight lending rate to 28.25% and its overnight deposit rate to 27.25%, as part of a decision to accelerate monetary tightening and ensure a decline in underlying inflation. (38 words)
I-80 will remain open during the overnight work, but there will be various overnight intermittent lane closures on the eastbound and westbound lanes starting nightly at 8:30 p.m. until 4:30 a.m., Caltrans said. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Of course, China couldn’t accomplish this sort of conversion overnight, but its population isn’t aging overnight.
The number of overnight stays increased by 10.3 percent year-on-year to 74.5 million, while the average overnight stays was 7.4.
Winds overnight will be up to 15 km/h with a low of -16 C and a wind chill of -8 C Monday evening and -19 C overnight.
The central bank said it had raised the overnight lending rate to 28.25% and its overnight deposit rate to 27.25%, as part of a decision to accelerate monetary tightening and ensure a decline in underlying inflation.
She added: 'Overnight temperatures will drop quickly, it will be cold overnight with frost in a few places by Wednesday still could see some showers across northern and eastern parts of the UK.
Snow will start to slow and slide out of the area on Thursday night, with clouds finally starting to clear out overnight as well, resulting in the mercury dipping back into the mid-minus teens overnight.
We wish we could report better news this morning, but forecast models have continued to trend westward overnight and now have a potentially very dangerous category 3 or 4 hurricane bearing down on the upper Texas coast overnight Wednesday into Thursday.
Eastbound weekday overnight closures will last 8 weeks, followed by 8 weeks of westbound lane weekday overnight closures.
Chilly conditions are expected overnight with many communities waking up to frost/freeze, overnight lows in the 20s and 30s.
Eight times a year, the central bank meets to discuss its benchmark interest rate, known as the target for the overnight rate, which is the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans.
Five more vehicles have been targeted by arson attacks overnight, following on from eight vehicles attacked overnight Monday.
I-80 will remain open during the overnight work, but there will be various overnight intermittent lane closures on the eastbound and westbound lanes starting nightly at 8:30 p.m. until 4:30 a.m., Caltrans said.
Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday were projected in the high 40s to low 50s before dropping to 40 overnight both Thursday and Friday.
The North Brunswick Police Department issues a warning asking residents to lock all first floor windows during the overnight hours, and pay attention to any suspicious noises overnight.
Yarnold trailed by 0.10 overnight after complaining of being dizzy, but cut the deficit as overnight leader Jacqueline Loelling of Germany slipped back to third place after the third run.
In the North American Great Plains a southerly low-level jet helps fuel overnight thunderstorm activity during the warm season, normally in the form of mesoscale convective systems which form during the overnight hours.
A 13-year-old boy was wounded in overnight shelling of Ukraine’s partially occupied southern Kherson province, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, spokesman for the Ukrainian administration of the province.
A 15-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man have been stabbed to death overnight after an attack in North London.
About 75 percent of people who reported having a mental illness also said they had stayed overnight at a psychiatric unit or another facility for mental health treatment, according to the survey.
According to her, the early arrival was due to the deployment of Electoral Officials to the Registration Area Centres, RACs where they slept overnight.
Phrases with overnight
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with overnight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an overnight 16×
- the overnight 11×
- overnight and 9×
- overnight in 9×
- overnight with 6×
- overnight for 6×
- and overnight 5×
- overnight low 5×
- happen overnight 5×
- stay overnight 5×