Sample sentences for NOCTURNAL

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Definition

active during the night; or relating to night

nocturnal = active during the night

nocturnal = nighttime

nocturnal = active during the night

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

nocturnal = nighttime

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.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

nocturnal = nighttime

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.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

nocturnal = nighttime

Mom doesn't exactly know about my nocturnal habits.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride

nocturnal = nighttime

nocturnal = active during the night

Did he really have no clue that I knew about his night prowling—about his nocturnal missions?
Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why

nocturnal = active during the night

we went into the nocturnal room of the Mammal Building.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

nocturnal = (for animals that are) active during the night

nocturnal = active during the night

a cautious nocturnal creature that runs on electricity.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

nocturnal = active during the night

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.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

nocturnal = nighttime

The Daughters' Staircase was in the ground-floor bedroom of their parents, so Simon always knew the hours of his daughters' nocturnal comings and goings.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

nocturnal = nighttime

Were they nocturnal animals?
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
"They're nocturnal,"
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

nocturnal = nighttime

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.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

nocturnal = nighttime

With nightfall had begun the nocturnal concert of animals driven from their hiding-places by hunger and thirst.
Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon
In this way we should be able to watch our man if he struck a light, and see what his object was in this stealthy nocturnal visit.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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