How to Use night and day in a Sentence

night and day

adverb
  • It’s like hot and cold, night and day, black and white.
    cleveland, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This way, our clocks will stay in sync with night and day.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 30 June 2015
  • Friday was the day of the equinox, the yearly time when night and day have equal length.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The area, near the Seine River, is known to be busy with tourists and locals, night and day.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Every night and day is opened with a reading from the Bible and a silent prayer.
    Kim Woodard Osterholzer, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • So even just recording (Pizazz) was like night and day.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Along the great crescent sweep of the river, smoke billowed from the pyres that burn night and day.
    Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Both hemispheres share the sun’s rays equally at the equinox, and night and day are roughly the same length.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The overall tone and atmosphere in the clubhouse and on the bench is night and day from last year.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For the most part, Amazon fixed a lot of this with the 4th Gen, but it’s not a night and day difference.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The difference between Akok Akok in the last two games and the one in the five before that is night and day.
    Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • No doubt there will be many more see-through moments to come, night and day—watch this space.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Life on Earth has evolved to stay in sync with our planet's cycle of night and day.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Their letters are night and day — one born of sorrow, the other born of joy.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • The set design, by Ms. Lang and Nicole Pearce, indicates night and day, dawn and dusk.
    New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • That's because there is nearly the same amount of night and day during an equinox.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Brescia says that the growth from the team that played Skyridge in the regular season and this one is night and day.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • Stroud’s growth is part of why the Buckeyes look night and day from the team that took the field in a 35-28 loss to Oregon the second week of the season.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • It’s not just the visuals, but the density is night and day as well.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • The difference in his income between the Obama years and the Trump years is night and day.
    WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • That starts on the defensive end where the production is night and day from 2018.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • For me, the differences are night and day since my kids are going to school in-person again.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The first two rooms will be dedicated to the watches with a backdrop of Paris by night and day.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The difference between the two sides of that coin are as different as night and day.
    Robert Charles, Chron, 23 June 2021
  • The difference between the full-sized S pen from the Galaxy Tab series and the fun-size stylus in the Note is night and day.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Catcher Austin Hedges said the difference in McKenzie from the early part of 2021 to now is like night and day.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 15 July 2022
  • The agents remained in the obstetrics ward night and day as physicians worked to halt her labor.
    Sheri Fink, New York Times, 10 June 2019
  • The sensors can be activated any time of night and day.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2 July 2021
  • Since then, the investment performance of these two funds are night and day.
    Ben Carlson, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • For Holiday, the difference between the first and second rounds has been night and day.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024

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