Sentence Examples

1. Ali was his principal attendant during this nocturnal survey.
2. She had no nocturnal visitors, human or otherwise, and managed to sleep, waking well before the sun was up.
3. The nocturnal visitor, ignorant of the fact that the count had removed the staples, might now think himself at home, and pursue his purpose with full security.
4. That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk, in the course of which he was in the habit of smoking a cigar.
5. Most slept now, only a few nocturnal ones still sharing their stories with her.
6. It was the same through which, twenty-four years ago, he had been conducted by a silent and nocturnal guard the houses, today so smiling and animated, were on that night dark, mute, and closed.
7. I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.
8. I rested at times, but knowing if I was actually napping or not was difficult to figure out in the realm of nocturnal.
9. Her reason told her that all the visions she beheld were but the children of her imagination, and the conviction was strengthened by the fact that in the morning no traces remained of the nocturnal phantoms, who disappeared with the coming of daylight.
10. For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle.