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Example sentences for "daytime"

Lexicographically close words:
daylye; days; daysman; dayspring; daysprings; daytimes; daze; dazed; dazedly; dazing
  1. I shall never go out of doors in the daytime again.

  2. The surgeon sat up with him nearly all night: in the daytime those two friends sat for hours in his cabin, watching sadly, and silently moistening his burning brow and his parched lips.

  3. The famous places conspicuous in daytime might as well have been folded up and put away in a closet; he could not see so much as a glimmer of light from any of them.

  4. The custom {304} of restricting the fast to the daytime probably springs from the idea that a ghost cannot see in the dark, and is consequently unable to come and pollute the food at night.

  5. In the Pelew Islands, as long as the dead is unburied, fasting is observed in the daytime but not in the evening.

  6. Woodcocks are hardly ever seen unless they are disturbed, for they hide during the daytime in thick bushes in woods, and only come out to feed in the evening.

  7. During the daytime the porcupine is seldom seen, being fast asleep in its burrow.

  8. During the daytime the opossum is usually fast asleep in its nest, which is sometimes made by itself, and sometimes is the deserted home of a squirrel.

  9. During the daytime they are hardly ever seen, for they hide away in holes in the ground, or in hollow trees, and remain fast asleep till after sunset.

  10. During the daytime the blindworm mostly lies hidden under a large stone; and on turning such a stone over, one may sometimes find two or three of these lizards all coiled up together.

  11. It lives for the most part in wooded plains, and is generally found in large herds, which spend the daytime hiding in the forests, and come out into the open country by night to graze and drink.

  12. During the daytime these birds often travel long distances in search of food, which consists chiefly of fruits and nuts, but in the evening they always return to their regular roosting-places.

  13. During the daytime it is generally fast asleep, using its long bushy tail partly as a pillow and partly as a blanket.

  14. During the daytime sugar-squirrels are nearly always asleep in a hollow tree, or in some other convenient retreat.

  15. But when they come over in the autumn they often spend the daytime out at sea resting on the water.

  16. During the daytime scorpions hide away under stones and logs, or in crevices in the ground, or perhaps under the loose bark of dead trees.

  17. During the daytime the aard-vark is hardly ever to be seen, for it lies fast asleep in its burrow, which it seldom leaves till after sunset.

  18. During the daytime slugs remain in hiding, lying behind the loose bark of dead trees, or under logs and large stones, or in heaps of decaying leaves.

  19. During the daytime the lion is generally fast asleep, lying up in a thicket, or in a bed of reeds by the side of a pool or a river.

  20. During the daytime the aard-wolf is nearly always fast asleep underground, so that it is hardly ever seen except by those who go out to hunt it.

  21. And I remembered that even now, when I had been debited my three shillings to be present, I did not see the place in its normal daytime aspect at all.

  22. As I entered the Business College at half-past ten on the morning of the examination it suddenly struck me that I had never been inside the place in the daytime before.

  23. Nor had I any desire to linger about those premises my first sight of which in the daytime had cost me three shillings in cash, and a murderous rage that might indeed have closed the gates of heaven in my face.

  24. My program was to travel as fast as I could from sunset to sunrise and pay no attention to the hours in between, and in the daytime I had only two things to worry about: keep concealed and get as much sleep as possible.

  25. I decided that I would start earlier than usual, hurry over to the wood, and perhaps in that way I could cover two or three miles in the daytime and gain just so much time.

  26. I decided, therefore, to walk out of the city in the daytime when the sentries would be less apt to be on the watch.

  27. There is seldom a time that machines go out over the lines on this work in the daytime that they are not attacked at some time or other, and so the scouts usually have plenty of work to do.

  28. I decided to hide in the daytime and travel only at night.

  29. They are laid in Lincolnshire in June, and fresh eggs of both species may be got together during that month; and during the daytime the nearly vertical sun renders incubation scarcely necessary.

  30. At the approach of evening, however, the sleepy bird rouses itself, and, hungry and alert and active enough, leaves its daytime haunt and commences its evening peregrinations in quest of food and enjoyment.

  31. These Petrels are chiefly crepuscular or nocturnal in their habits, and during the daytime not a bird will be seen.

  32. To lay this monster he must be taken up and burned; at least, his heart must be; and he must be disinterred in the daytime when he is asleep and unaware.

  33. The window looked upon the street and along the turnpike road to the very hill on which the castle stood, the keep being visible in the daytime above the trees.

  34. Having begun his journey, he did not cease travelling till he reached the spot where was the bird's cage, in which it used to pass the night, but in the daytime it flew about for exercise and food.

  35. In this tower was a well, which served in the daytime for a retreat to a certain fairy, named Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, king or head of a legion of genies.

  36. But some humans that have the gift can see them in the daytime like an animal.

  37. In the daytime it keeps comparatively quiet.

  38. These creatures are in the habit of resting in the daytime against walls, or stones, or the bark of trees.

  39. During the daytime the grass is warmed by the sun; but when the sun is gone it grows cooler, much as a stove becomes cool when the fire is out.

  40. Even in the daytime the colors and shadows are beautiful; but at sunrise and at sunset the clouds are often changed to gorgeous banks of color.

  41. Two of the little boys, in connection with two other boys in the neighborhood, were arrested, tried, and found guilty of entering a house in the daytime and stealing.

  42. Some of the boys work in the daytime at the trades which they are taught at the club in the evening, and the instruction thus received has helped them to earn better salaries in many cases.

  43. Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.

  44. That is why he still sleeps in the daytime now, and looks about only at night.

  45. In the daytime the young men ran races, played games, and had a shooting match.

  46. The mosquitoes were rarely troublesome, although in the daytime we were sometimes bothered by numbers of biting horse- flies.

  47. In the daytime the piums swarmed, and often bothered us even when we were in midstream.

  48. They live in dense cover, usually lying down in the daytime and at night coming out to feed, and going to the river or to some lagoon to bathe and swim.

  49. In the daytime gnats and sand-flies and horse-flies sometimes bothered us a little, but not much.

  50. In the daytime it rests on the underside of a leaf.

  51. In the daytime it must be searched for under the leaves.

  52. In the daytime it may be seen on the trunks or boughs of trees, most frequently at too great a height to be easily secured; but still a few sit low enough for capture, especially on the trunks of fir trees.

  53. The moth is another inhabitant of the hedgerow and the bushy wood-border, where it may be disturbed in the daytime during late May and June.

  54. It feeds, from April to June, on the foliage of birch and aspen, and may be found in the daytime between the lower leaves.

  55. The moth flies in June and July, and in the daytime may be readily disturbed from hedges in localities on the chalk in the southern half of England and Wales, especially in the seaboard counties from Kent to Cornwall.

  56. It may be found in August and early September, but, as it feeds only at night, it should be searched for in the daytime on the undersides of the lower leaves.

  57. It may be seen in the daytime on tree-trunks, palings, etc.

  58. The moth is out in June and July, and in the daytime may be put up from its lurking place among herbage in wood clearings, or netted as it flies in the gloaming.

  59. The moth occurs in woodlands, but is not easily disturbed in the daytime from its lurking-place in bush or tree.

  60. The moth frequents lanes, woods, and thickets, especially those in which maple is plentiful; it flies at dusk, and in the daytime may be beaten from hedgerows in which the food plant grows.

  61. It sits in the daytime on tree-trunks, but more especially those with smooth bark; the stems of holly are a favourite resting place, but at Box Hill I have occasionally seen a specimen on the trunk of a beech tree.

  62. The moth flies in late June and in July, and may be disturbed in the daytime from buckthorn bushes.

  63. In the daytime it may be jarred from its perch in oak trees, and once I found a specimen on a fence in the Esher district.

  64. The moth is out in May and June, and rests in the daytime {136} among the foliage of trees and bushes in or around woods.

  65. I don't mind his not being there in the daytime in a way because, of course, there's always Peterkin.

  66. And in the meantime, the women did not manifest themselves once during the daytime at the New Camp.

  67. About the same number of UFO's were reported as being seen in daytime as at night, and the direction of travel equally covered the sixteen cardinal headings of the compass.

  68. Pilots in F- 94 jet interceptors chase Venus in the daytime and fight with balloons at night, and people in Los Angeles see weird lights.

  69. Presently sounds proceeded from a window near by, one of the small ones that in the daytime gave light to the gymnasium.

  70. It follows us about in the daytime in the form of a sunbeam, whilst occasionally, at night, it assumes her earthly shape.

  71. When the Spider is of a species that shuns the light and possesses a telegraph-line, she mounts to her daytime hiding-place along this line, with the game bumping against her heels.

  72. The spinstresses of my enclosure then leave their daytime hiding-places, select their posts and begin to spin, one here, another there.

  73. If the test is to be applied to a species with a daytime hiding-place amid the foliage, the dead Locust is laid on the web, more or less near the centre, no matter how.

  74. In daytime the gun was covered with brush and other means of concealment to keep it from the ever watchful eye of the Hun.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daytime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.