How to Use high noon in a Sentence

high noon

noun

• The duel was to take place at high noon.
• We are approaching high noon of the election campaign.
• This is the Cold War at high noon, missiles loaded, when spies were the front-line troops.
  — Joseph Kanon, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Most people need the rhythm of sunrise and sunset -- and high noon, of course -- to feel their best.
  — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
• Like most epic duels, this one is scheduled for high noon.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2022
• At high noon, there was a baby crawling race tied to the Jack-Jack character.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
• Lighting can be tricky; photos shot at high noon tend, for instance, to have too much harsh light.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
• Zipping through the drive thru at your favorite burger place at high noon is a surprise.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• Michigan State football will move from high noon to midafternoon next week.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2021
• Originally, the sun was the main means of timekeeping, with its broad settings of dawn, high noon and dusk.
  — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
• It’s the eve of the summer solstice, a time when evening feels like high noon and people buzz with unearned adrenaline.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2020
• The auction will be held — fittingly — at high noon Eastern time.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
• At high noon, the sun sat below the southern horizon, but enough color leaked up to stain a patch of sky a deep pastel orange.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Each side eyed the other warily for about an hour, like gunslingers on Main Street at high noon waiting to see who would make the first move.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Photo Frame outwits the distracting glare of high noon.
  — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Before the creation of standardized time, many cities had their own local times based on the position of the sun at high noon.
  — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
• Once, when Kitty was in her late 70s, a deliveryman brought in bags of potatoes on a dolly at high noon, during the lunch rush, George said.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• The rover also doesn’t operate at high noon, when the sun is brightest and temperatures soar.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• The @Athletics will be sending a bandwagon down Market Street tomorrow at high noon.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• Just remember that every Saturday in July at high noon, there will be siren tests.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2020
• In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund, owing to the work of the enslaved laborers who stand painfully erect among the crop, like stalks themselves.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 May 2021
• The chess showdowns, in which players square off like gunslingers at high noon, are exhilarating.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
• That same level of comfort and willingness to roam, however, can happen at high noon if the water is stained or muddy.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
• But that won't be high noon for America's governing crisis.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• At college authorities for allowing all three forces to converge like a bloody high noon.
  — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
• But any flashes will be hard to see given the time — close to high noon at Saturn — and Cassini’s minuscule size against the solar system’s second largest planet.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• At high noon on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, aircraft will fly over Waukegan National Airport, with one separating from the pack and rising to the heavens.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Investing for income in this environment is like trying to squeeze water out of a fistful of sand at high noon in Death Valley.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024