How to Use the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening in a Sentence

the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening

noun
  • Just saw it the other day, for the first time in years, out of the clear blue.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Queen got one song the other day, with all the words as lyrics to that song.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • A lot of people were just learning about him for the first time the other day.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • How’d that secret power work for the Knicks in Game 7 the other day!?
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • So we’ve been favored, I was told the other day, like four or five times all year.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • One co-worker brought in lunch the other day in a paper bag.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The person singing that song, as Marco put it the other day, is the song itself.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Joe Biden tried to tell off a journalist the other day.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 16 June 2024
  • Lincoln Riley called me the other day and just wanted to talk to me, check in.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Fourth-line force Lauko lamented the other day how the Wild’s forecheck wasn’t doing well.
    — Joe Smith, The Athletic, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The guys are excited about this game coming off of a tough game the other night.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
  • And Jordan [Chiles] had rhinestones on her eyes the other day.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The article that came out the other day on the subject was from the hoax-busting site Snopes.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • There was a video the other day of someone had sent me of someone claiming to be Teri.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • There’d been no reason to get so angry with him for shooting the bird the other day.
    — Martin Aitken, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But, no, that's just something that happened the other day.
    — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2023
  • That’s how big Brunson’s 3 felt the other night in Detroit.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
  • Little Italy neighbors got the news the other night and approved.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Kylie had her little boy, it was announced the other day.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Brunson and the rest of them honored that concept the other night in Detroit.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Hanging a frame in my apartment the other day, a crooked placement gave me pause.
    — Camille Freestone, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
  • That was our question the other day about Maddy Siegrist.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • And believe me, front and center is what happened the other day.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Dontrelle Willis told me that the other day, not by raising his voice, but by looking me straight in the eye.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Next … the segment of Dodger fans who can’t resist piling on Dave Roberts was at it again the other day.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 30 May 2024
  • Her old fence is falling, and the other day a possum entered her yard.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This issue came up in the car the other day when my wife Patti and I were driving to someone’s house.
    — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
  • My partner made a joke the other day about fixing himself a $50 omelet.
    — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But just the other evening my wife and I were sitting in our living room with friends when there was a tremendous roar.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • One day was for the scene where I was killed, and the other day was obviously just doing my lines and stuff like that.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 6 May 2025

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