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broad daylight



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Idioms and Phrases

Ample and obvious natural light, as in You don't need your flashlight—it's broad daylight , or She was accosted on her own street in broad daylight . [1300s]
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Example Sentences

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Detectives said they are still confirming the exact dates and times of all the incidents, but said some occurred in broad daylight and others in the middle of the night.

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When ICE agents wearing face masks abducted a Turkish student attending Tufts University on a Massachusetts street in broad daylight and whisked her off to a Louisiana detention facility for co-authoring an editorial in the school newspaper, they might as well have told the entire world to not buy American.

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This attack happened in broad daylight yesterday, there was a food market going on in the town centre so there were lots of people around.

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Several weeks later a large brown bear was captured on video running through the centre of the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikolas in broad daylight, bounding past cars and lunging at people on the pavement.

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The murder of a young Sicilian woman by a stalker in broad daylight has sent shockwaves across Italy, where 11 women have been killed since the start of the year.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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