How to Use night shift in a Sentence

night shift

noun

• Lightfoot’s mother worked the night shift as a nurse’s aide.
  — Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Along with the interns, a few dozen other people worked the night shift.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• That would have come off during the night shift on June 9, when the fryer fried up its last batch of chips.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 28 July 2023
• Kania works a 10-hour night shift, often as much as six days a week.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• My dad still works a night shift at the railyard in Mobile, so this is easy.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2023
• The girl is now 4, and Espinoza is ready to work again, perhaps picking up a night shift at a warehouse.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• But Campbell said the driver, a man in his 30s, was a Portland musician who worked the night shift.
  — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• By the time the night shift finally ended, nearly 11 hours after the shooting, his mind was a blur.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Matthew Davis was working the night shift in Keene, Texas, when a 12 year old allegedly shot him multiple times, killing him.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• Hussain was stabbed and shot during a robbery while working the night shift at a pharmacy.
  — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• My father has been a night shift worker for over three decades at a local factory.
  — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• Ford ceased all production, evacuated the plant and canceled the night shift, the news release said.
  — Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2023
• Norris, now an acting sergeant with the department, recalled working a night shift when there were six shootings around the city.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Then, as the sun goes down, Cedillo uses a ride-share company to get to her full-time job working the night shift at the Hawaiian King warehouse in Torrance.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Automated texts pinged the iPads of the two caretakers working the night shift, and the phones of an on-call nurse and the facility’s director.
  — Steven Rich, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• Brandy works the night shift locally, hauling concrete.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• But Jacko Sadek, who had been working a night shift at his Fountain Valley shop, had a real handgun behind his shelf.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• The night shift, a group of very talented photographers and writers from everywhere, would go body to body, crime scene to crime scene.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Armed Kuki men on guard during a night shift in Churachandpur, Manipur.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• In June, the operator of a bulldozer was swept into the sea by an avalanche while working a night shift without lighting.
  — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
• The lifeguards were working a night shift, and blazing spotlights were trained on the water, staining it an eerie, luminescent turquoise.
  — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Leopards and lions are on the night shift, while cheetahs and African wild dogs primarily search for prey during daylight hours.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• Angelica Gonzalez, who was on the night shift and had children of her own, often chatted with them.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Diaz Sanchez, who is from El Salvador, is hoping for a minimum hourly increase of $2 to $3 for workers like herself in the next contract and double that for those who work the night shift.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Kelsey Johnson, 32, an emergency medicine resident at the University of Maryland was working the night shift when the bridge fell.
  — Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Bowie, a lone security guard working the night shift, becomes the sole witness to a murder in his old condominium in the middle of Manila.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• When Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a boy in the 1980s, his grandmother would walk him and his brother to the store for ice cream before heading to her night shift at a local cannery.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Josh Hutcherson stars as a security guard who gets a job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and realizes the night shift can be deadly.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• Translation: Your feet won't be in pain, even after pounding the pavement during a morning run or working a grueling 12-hour night shift.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Mosley described how her grandmother, who turns 97 in July, used to clean houses for white people and later worked the night shift as a hospital nursing assistant.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024