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.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet most cannot distinguish a sleeping dog from a bush, even at high noon.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2011
  • 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
  • Sunglasses are a necessity at high noon and a nuisance when the sun goes down.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 19 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • At high noon 141 years ago, time changed forever in America.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024

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