Below you will find example sentences with "broad daylight". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Broad Daylight in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: broad
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.2 words

Words in this phrase

broad daylight

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • broad can mean: Wide in extent or scope. Frequent word
  • daylight can mean: The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days). Less frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

appearing in broad daylight of their 1× assassination in broad daylight in sydney 1× at in broad daylight 1× attack in broad daylight 1× attacked in broad daylight while jogging 1× down in broad daylight in front 1× had been broad daylight there would 1× her in broad daylight 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a man has 2× a bucktown chicago 1× deividas skebas is 1× detective inspector guy 1× dink a prominent 1× drug users shoot 1×

Common sentence endings:

in broad daylight 5× accommodations in jatrabari 1× any serious business 1× arteries were severed 1× four years ago 1× high school dropout 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

attack 3× caught 3× man 3× attacked 3× woman 3× robbery 2× charged 2× killed 2× knife 2× last 2× attacking 2× office 2×

Related phrases

daylight saving broad street broad range stuart broad broad spectrum

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around broad:

broad street 14× broad range 10× stuart broad 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

british royal british prime british pound british museum british government british fleet

Just after it in the phrase index:

broad range broad spectrum broad street broadcast rights broadcasting corporation broader community

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

broad street broad range broad spectrum

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "broad daylight" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as appearing in broad daylight of their, assassination in broad daylight in sydney, attack, caught and man stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with daylight saving, broad street, broad range, broad street, broad range and stuart broad, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with broad daylight

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He added that the recent broad daylight robbery Monday was unusually violent. (12 words)

A Bucktown, Chicago robbery and attack was caught on video in broad daylight. (13 words)

Drug users shoot up in broad daylight on the streets of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

In recounting the gruesome manner in which the woman was killed, Berbice High Court Judge, Simone Morris-Ramlall, said that Hunt attacked his partner in broad daylight with a knife, attacking her in such a manner that her carotid arteries were severed. (42 words)

Dink, a prominent journalist and the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of his office by Samast, who was then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout. (37 words)

Deividas Skebas is charged with murdering Lilia Valutyte by stabbing her in broad daylight in Boston, Lincolnshire, last July but is unfit to plead or face trial due to his mental health. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

A Bucktown, Chicago robbery and attack was caught on video in broad daylight.

A man has been charged with murder after a young man was killed in a knife attack in broad daylight.

A man has died and a killer is on the loose after a brazen gangland assassination in broad daylight in Sydney's west.

But even if it had been broad daylight, there would not have been enough natural light to transact any serious business.

Deividas Skebas is charged with murdering Lilia Valutyte by stabbing her in broad daylight in Boston, Lincolnshire, last July but is unfit to plead or face trial due to his mental health.

Detective Inspector Guy Shackleton, who led the investigation said: “Krisztian Glonczi is a dangerous sexual predator who stalked his victim before then attacking her in broad daylight.

Dink, a prominent journalist and the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of his office by Samast, who was then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout.

Drug users shoot up in broad daylight on the streets of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

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Earlier in the same day, at roughly 1.30pm, at least two people were attacked with a 'bladed weapon' in a broad daylight attack on Moredon Road.

He added that the recent broad daylight robbery Monday was unusually violent.

In a police complaint filed on May 18, the victims had also alleged that the younger woman was “brutally gangraped in the broad daylight”.

In April, Austin resident Isabella Ricks said she was attacked in broad daylight while jogging on the trail.

In recounting the gruesome manner in which the woman was killed, Berbice High Court Judge, Simone Morris-Ramlall, said that Hunt attacked his partner in broad daylight with a knife, attacking her in such a manner that her carotid arteries were severed.

Instead of appearing in broad daylight of their choice, they would rather live quietly in their own world.

In the letter, it’s written that prostitution takes place in broad daylight in two giant residential accommodations in Jatrabari.

It was broad daylight, he’s got these beautiful big windows in his office, no creepy element.

Last Sunday, in the bustling Sokoto Fish and Vegetable Market, human life was cut short in broad daylight.

Murphy was murdered while jogging in broad daylight along a stretch of the Grand Canal outside Tullamore known as Fiona's Way in memory of missing woman Fiona Pender.

No arrests have been made after a couple were caught having sex in broad daylight in an open Buckinghamshire field nearly four years ago.

On February 17 2022, Mr Elezaj was caught on surveillance cameras as he drove to Harehatch Lane in Beaconsfield before dumping bags of waste at in broad daylight.

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