How to Use midnight in a Sentence

midnight

noun

• Her parents wanted her home before midnight.
• It was 12 midnight when we arrived home.
• The clock has struck midnight and the vinyl has been pressed.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• The event will be free and open to the public from 3pm to midnight.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• The event’s free to attend and runs from 11 a.m. to midnight.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• Phones are open from 8:00 a.m. to midnight ET, 7 days a week.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2022
• But a greasy bag of fast food tacos doesn’t have to be your go-to midnight meal.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 4 Mar. 2022
• When the clock strikes midnight, CO2 cannons and 20-foot-high dry sparks will fill the venue.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
• In which city is a giant pine cone dropped at midnight to ring in the new year?
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
• Last-minute dash to the grocery store before the clock strikes midnight?
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2022
• The bystander video shows Brown walking her dog on the beach around midnight.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2021
• The altar will be on display during the daytime event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the evening event from 5 p.m. to midnight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• For teens ages 16 to 17, their curfew starts at midnight.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• But as the clock ticked toward midnight, there was a quiet in the on-air studio.
  — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• The stripes were made of clear crystals, which shone in the dark stadium like midnight rain.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2023
• Late my time, maybe midnight, my brother called me to say the doctors had called him.
  — Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2023
• The talks went down to the last minute, with a deal announced shortly after midnight.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
• The first chapter of four songs will arrive on Nov. 10 at midnight.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
• The clock strikes midnight, and the magic dissipates into the night.
  — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone.
  — Mark Cooper, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
• The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone.
  — Mark Cooper, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
• Currently, if the two groups fail to reach an agreement, the strike is set to launch midnight Oct. 18.
  — Adario Strange, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the sixth episode of The Kardashians, which dropped at midnight on June 27, the younger Jenner sisters joined forces in the kitchen.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
• David Schultz was last seen in video footage shortly before midnight on the 20th.
  — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
• In Spain, those celebrating the New Year eat a dozen grapes, one for each strike of the clock at midnight.
  — Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024
• Which makes his sudden midnight jaunt into the city for fresh blood a bit of a surprise.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
• The first, about two hours before the mass shooting, warned the incoming midnight shift of a crowd of up to 900 people.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
• Just men aimlessly wandering the streets of the desert in green close to midnight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• For observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon won't rise above the eastern horizon until shortly before midnight, still at the farther end of its orbit from Earth.
  — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
• Lively sparkled on the red carpet in a silver, floral-accented dress, while Reynolds looked dapper in a midnight navy tuxedo from Thom Sweeney.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025