Sentence examples for shift overnight from inspiring English sources

A brief thunderstorm, however, rolled over the course this afternoon, and the wind was expected to shift overnight.

Scientific paradigms don't shift overnight, however, and more than 10 years of grinding, repetitive fieldwork would pass before George came to understand exactly what that meant.

Some observers suggest that the rivalry between Nas and Jay-Z - regarded as veterans in a field where music trends shift overnight - had simply worn itself out.

This, however, won't shift overnight.

Stanley: There is not going to be a big shift overnight, business-wise.

But as voters in Colorado and Washington have shown, the political ground can shift overnight.

Then Jesse Jackson Jr.'s fortunes shifted overnight.

The dynamic shifted overnight, diplomats said, when China agreed to support the measure.

With temperatures dropping, humidity rising and winds shifting overnight, the northeastward march of the Hayman fire -- named for an old mining site where it erupted on Saturday -- slowed for a time.

But auto production cycles can't be shifted overnight, so the simple threat of the regulation forced automakers to sell or lease tens of thousands of battery-powered cars in California.

Even the language of racial grievance has shifted: Overnight, the cries about driving while black have become flying while brown -- a phrase referring to reports of Muslim-Americans being asked to get off planes.