Sentence examples for passing the night from inspiring English sources

It's like riding the elevator at work and passing the night shift while you're going down".

"Quite a number of our sick, including several disabled officers, were on board and preferred to remain rather than incur the risk of passing the night on shore in our pestilential encampment".

He didn't know anybody in Kansas, and he had no plans for his birthday in particular, except to be passing the night in a motel on the road somewhere.

These sentences touch on the feature that disquiets many citizens of Greenville: A great deal was going on, at an hour when the city is dead, right under the sheriff's windows, where a staff was passing the night hours without, presumably, many distractions.

That, however, did not please Frederick: "My chief aim in passing the night in Jerusalem was to hear the call to prayer given by the muezzins, and their cries of praise to God during the night".

per-nocto, āvi, 1, v. n., to stay all night long, to pass the night (class.).

Here it was that Nasica passed the night.

He passed the night at an unrevealed village and is expected to arrive today in Vienna.

She passed the night in terrible pain, but there was no blood.

They had escaped and returned to their workplace to pass the night, another concession to their changing world.

Judge Julie Robinson of Federal District Court said no, reminding him that the deadline for introducing pretrial evidence had passed the night before.