Sample Sentences for
nocturnal
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    "Raptors are nocturnal," he said.  (source)
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    The travelers adopted the practice of arranging the animals in a circle at night, sleeping together in the center as protection against the nocturnal cold.  (source)
    nocturnal = nighttime
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    Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.  (source)
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    Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.  (source)
    nocturnal = nighttime
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    Things went on in this fashion for hundreds of years, the towers burning and the pigeons whispering plans for still grander and taller towers to successive generations of nocturnally inspired architects.†  (source)
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    The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn.  (source)
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    we went into the nocturnal room of the Mammal Building.  (source)
    nocturnal = (for animals that are) active during the night
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    Did he really have no clue that I knew about his night prowling—about his nocturnal missions?  (source)
    nocturnal = active during the night
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    ...my charge is nocturnal.  (source)
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    Mom doesn't exactly know about my nocturnal habits.  (source)
    nocturnal = nighttime
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    Late strollers were still out: a policeman, a night watchman, a rocket pilot, several lonely men coming home from some nocturnal rendezvous, four men and women issuing from a bar, laughing.  (source)
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    a cautious nocturnal creature that runs on electricity.  (source)
    nocturnal = active during the night
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    But I thought that, as a friend of the family, it was my duty to supply you and Tesman with a full account of his nocturnal exploits.  (source)
    nocturnal = nighttime
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