How do you use Weeknight in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like night or nighttime, plus the exact meaning.
Weeknight meaning
The evening of a weekday.
Using Weeknight
- The main meaning on this page is: The evening of a weekday.
- Useful related words include: night, nighttime, dark.
- In the example corpus, weeknight often appears in combinations such as: weeknight dinner, weeknight meal, on weeknight.
Context around Weeknight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Weeknight
- In this selection, "weeknight" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, easy, five, fuss, dinner, meal and dishes stand out and add context to how "weeknight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a casual weeknight dinner in and a lovely weeknight meal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "weeknight" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with weeknight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. (7 words)
Both deserve spots in your weeknight dinner rotation. (8 words)
This delicious soup makes a quick, weeknight meal. (8 words)
Cancellation of the weeknight service leaving Glasgow Central at 10.13 pm and arriving in Stranraer at 12.56 am, the last train of the night, would “greatly inconvenience” those in the region relying on it for work and leisure, Mr Jack said. (43 words)
Steak becomes a casual weeknight dinner in this relaxed “sauté-fry” in which slices of meat are mixed with lightly charred asparagus and drizzled with a mustard sauce spiked with Chinese black vinegar and sesame oil. (36 words)
This meal is special enough to serve as the main course of a dinner party or holiday feast, but also comes together fast enough to make it suitable for a weeknight. (31 words)
Take some time this weekend to prep these meals for easy weeknight dinners in the days ahead! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
A quick and easy weeknight meal – made all the tastier for knowing I had done my own very small bit to fight food waste.
But people seem downright giddy to wait up to two hours for a table, even on a weeknight.
Chicken thighs are the best choice for an easy, no-fuss weeknight supper.
In January of this year, Nawaz became co-host of the weeknight newscast program.
It is a perfect quick and easy weeknight dinner the whole family will love with all of the flavors minus carbs.
More than half of those doing more weeknight entertaining said this also meant they were becoming more adventurous with what they cooked.
Steak becomes a casual weeknight dinner in this relaxed “sauté-fry” in which slices of meat are mixed with lightly charred asparagus and drizzled with a mustard sauce spiked with Chinese black vinegar and sesame oil.
The weeknight games are all away from home this year, meaning Eagles fans can curl up on the couch to watch their new yearly rivalries with Pitt and Syracuse.
Both deserve spots in your weeknight dinner rotation.
Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter, Emily Weinstein suggests easy pasta dishes that you can make on the fly with whatever is in the house.
Grilled or fried, it’s a lovely weeknight meal.
Take some time this weekend to prep these meals for easy weeknight dinners in the days ahead!
The first time I performed Blay Vaks, it was a weeknight in mid-December.
This Big Mac pasta recipe is the perfect weeknight treat for foodies.
This delicious soup makes a quick, weeknight meal.
This meal is special enough to serve as the main course of a dinner party or holiday feast, but also comes together fast enough to make it suitable for a weeknight.
Cancellation of the weeknight service leaving Glasgow Central at 10.13 pm and arriving in Stranraer at 12.56 am, the last train of the night, would “greatly inconvenience” those in the region relying on it for work and leisure, Mr Jack said.
Fried chicken biscuits with hot honey butter could be a weeknight dinner with a side of greens, but they’re also perfect for a picnic.
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes.
I like this on a weeknight, and this pressure cooker pot roastBaked fish and chips are a delight as well, and particularly so when there are for dessert.
Common combinations with weeknight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: