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Example sentences for "nooning"

Lexicographically close words:
nooks; noon; noonday; noone; nooned; noons; noontide; noontime; noos; noose
  1. We stopped for a nooning at a strongly built little inn called the Schwarenbach.

  2. There'll be a crowd to wait on him, now it's nooning hour.

  3. It is a decided relief from the tension when a maid appears from the other house, and Miss Dodo is carried off for her nooning nap, kicking vigorously.

  4. She made no secret of the fact, but gave the note to the laborer when he came in to his nooning the following day.

  5. She made blunders, for which she was scolded; she grew bewildered and faint, and when the few moments of nooning came she could not eat the lunch her mother had prepared.

  6. It was not more than a week after this donation picnic, when I came home for my nooning one day, and found a covered wagon in the yard, and two strange horses in the stable.

  7. Even here the grama grass was not entirely missing, and a nooning of two hours was taken to let the animals crop as much of it as they could find.

  8. The next day saw them nooning at the last named creek, and before nightfall they had crossed Big Coon Creek.

  9. We were all tickled, therefore, after nooning that day and on starting the herd in the afternoon, to hear our foreman give orders to point the herd a little east of north.

  10. We were nooning when Flood returned with the news that it would be impossible to cross our wagon at any point on the bayou, and that we would have to ford around the mouth of the stream.

  11. While we were nooning about seven miles north of the Saw Log, some one noticed a buggy coming up the trail.

  12. This fashion of sermon-reading at the nooning happily did not obtain in all parts of New England.

  13. The two-mile walk, morning and evening, had something to do with it, not only because it and the long nooning were good exercise, but because it impressed upon the mind that what cost so much effort to get must surely be worth having.

  14. Neither at the school nooning nor at the table did one put a piece of pie upon a plate and haggle at it with a fork.

  15. We were nooning at Plum Creek, the cattle spread out over the prairie to graze in charge of two herders.

  16. But one day, while we were nooning about one hundred and fifty miles on the way, one of the boys shouted: "Here come the mules!

  17. Arriving near Green River we were nooning on a ridge about a mile and a half from a little creek, Halm's Fork, where the stock were driven to water.

  18. This had occurred at our nooning hour, amidst the dust and the heat, while the animals drooped and dozed and panted and in the scant shade of the hooded wagons we drank our coffee and crunched our hardtack.

  19. At the nooning Carlisle and Cecil will bring me the opinions of the captains, land and sea.

  20. Taken altogether, it looked more like the comfortable nooning spot of a cavalry scout than the quarters of a famous General.

  21. It was after nooning when I passed through the gates of the palisade, and an hour later when I finished my report to the Governor.

  22. When the drum beat for the nooning the roll was close in my ears.

  23. We stopped for a nooning near a grove of trees by the river side.

  24. As we approached our nooning place, we saw five or six buffalo standing at the very summit of a tall bluff.

  25. Near by the nooning place was a cedar tree in the branches of which an Indian child was deposited for burial.

  26. After nooning we traveled up another very tedious hill and down into a valley and camped for the night.

  27. While they were nooning at a cow-spring, Bannister, lying on his back, with his face to the turquoise sky, became aware that a vagrant impulse had crystallized to a fixed determination.

  28. Their nooning was at running stream called Smith's Creek, and by nightfall the party was well up in the higher foot hills.

  29. In the autumn it held its own; for when the other elms changed their green to duller tints, the nooning tree put on a gown of yellow, and stood out against the far background of sombre pine woods a brilliant mass of gold and brown.

  30. Tennessee fell asleep under the grateful shade of the nooning tree.

  31. By ten in the morning the heat drove them to cover for sleep and nooning in the scanty shade of a mesquite motte.

  32. During the long six-hour nooning Boland suffered with intermittent cramps in his legs, wakeful while the others slept.

  33. For hours their way had been through a trackless plain of uncropped salt grass, or grama, on the rising slopes: now they were in a country of worn and freshly traveled trails: wise Midnight knew there would be water and nooning soon.

  34. Once a day at least it seemed to tire from its ceaseless flow and to take a nooning spell.

  35. Next day, while nooning several miles out from Casper, we heard the whistle of a locomotive.

  36. To be sure, the nooning had not been quite as pleasant as usual.


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