How to Use night shift in a Sentence

night shift

noun
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  • Lightfoot’s mother worked the night shift as a nurse’s aide.
    — Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Along with the interns, a few dozen other people worked the night shift.
    — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • His first job was building fireproof safes on the night shift.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • That would have come off during the night shift on June 9, when the fryer fried up its last batch of chips.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 28 July 2023
  • Kania works a 10-hour night shift, often as much as six days a week.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • My dad still works a night shift at the railyard in Mobile, so this is easy.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The girl is now 4, and Espinoza is ready to work again, perhaps picking up a night shift at a warehouse.
    — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But Campbell said the driver, a man in his 30s, was a Portland musician who worked the night shift.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
  • By the time the night shift finally ended, nearly 11 hours after the shooting, his mind was a blur.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • His last few releases have been somber and pensive, so this is a night shift in sound and energy.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Matthew Davis was working the night shift in Keene, Texas, when a 12 year old allegedly shot him multiple times, killing him.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Scott Seno, a night shift press operator, has worked at the Freedom Center for 24 years.
    — Vincent Alban, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • Hussain was stabbed and shot during a robbery while working the night shift at a pharmacy.
    — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • My father has been a night shift worker for over three decades at a local factory.
    — Jess Reia, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • Ford ceased all production, evacuated the plant and canceled the night shift, the news release said.
    — Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2023
  • Norris, now an acting sergeant with the department, recalled working a night shift when there were six shootings around the city.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Some workers made $14 an hour As a test associate working the night shift, Bussabarger made $15 an hour.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2024
  • Then, as the sun goes down, Cedillo uses a ride-share company to get to her full-time job working the night shift at the Hawaiian King warehouse in Torrance.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Automated texts pinged the iPads of the two caretakers working the night shift, and the phones of an on-call nurse and the facility’s director.
    — Steven Rich, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Brandy works the night shift locally, hauling concrete.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But Jacko Sadek, who had been working a night shift at his Fountain Valley shop, had a real handgun behind his shelf.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The night shift, a group of very talented photographers and writers from everywhere, would go body to body, crime scene to crime scene.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Armed Kuki men on guard during a night shift in Churachandpur, Manipur.
    — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In June, the operator of a bulldozer was swept into the sea by an avalanche while working a night shift without lighting.
    — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The lifeguards were working a night shift, and blazing spotlights were trained on the water, staining it an eerie, luminescent turquoise.
    — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Leopards and lions are on the night shift, while cheetahs and African wild dogs primarily search for prey during daylight hours.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Angelica Gonzalez, who was on the night shift and had children of her own, often chatted with them.
    — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Subsequently, the publisher moved her around the newsroom, never gave her a promotion, and assigned her to the night shift.
    — Amy Diehl leanne M. Dzubinski, Harvard Business Review, 30 July 2024
  • Torres, a forklift operator, was working the night shift at the Freeport warehouse on July 24 when a microburst hit.
    — Jason Brow, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
  • Diaz Sanchez, who is from El Salvador, is hoping for a minimum hourly increase of $2 to $3 for workers like herself in the next contract and double that for those who work the night shift.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 16 June 2023

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