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How to use the word overnight in a Sentence?

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This is a large, voluntary trafficking operation run by a drug cartel who control the route and are the law in this part of the Colombian border near Panama, you pay to get here, you pay to overnight here, you pay to walk on.

Paton Walsh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We gave him a couple supplemental bottle feedings and then returned him to mom, and then overnight, he was nursing just fine. He’s a sturdy little guy, and quite handsome.

Kelly Gomez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about a community that no one had ever heard of before, becoming ground zero and a small town being destroyed overnight.

Misti Allison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole goal here is to make this community safe. And it can’t happen overnight, you can’t get all this stuff out of here overnight.

Mike DeWine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Theoretically, it can be done, but it wo n’t be happening overnight.

Tarun Pathak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While Title 42 was never intended as a permanent solution, it is the last line of defense for law enforcement along the border. Without it, we can expect illegal crossings to double overnight.

Tony Gonzales

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Lionel Messi

added by acronimous
1 year ago

Hurricane conditions are possible on Bermuda overnight.

National Hurricane Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But none of this is going to be just turning on a switch. It requires focus, it requires intention, it requires an investment over a period of time, which means, in the short point, is that you’re not going to see the benefit of it overnight — because the problems didn’t occur overnight.

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're seeing a touch of optimism creep in, in terms of voters' opinions about the economy, it's not going to turn around overnight. But at least if the trend line is going in the right way, that's good for Democrats. The more Donald Trump is in the spotlight, that's also good for Democrats.

Amy Walter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As someone who has family buried in both Cedar Grove Cemetery and Wilson County Memorial Gardens, I am angered by the vandalism that happened overnight, this was an act of vandalism against everyone who has family members there and our entire community.

Rick Bell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A chronic absenteeism rates, kids are just not going back to school, and they’re getting caught up in a lot of other types of delinquency, you saw the same thing with sort of the loss of gang violence intervention services, sort of formal and informal… bulwarks within the communities during COVID. You don’t fix that overnight.

Amy Swearer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People need to understand that in many states their options may be limited practically overnight or, if not overnight, then within weeks or months.

Debby Herbenick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By many, many respects, you could say that I have achieved the American dream, it didn't come overnight, but I had to make very specific and deliberate decisions.

Alma Ohene-Opare

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think being out here, and in the music business and being out on the road has sort of hardened my heart. My heart's definitely a lot harder in a lotta ways since I left that small town. It's amazing how that little girl melted that all away overnight a couple of weeks ago, i've been filled with a lot of gratitude these past couple of weeks. I just want to say up here on the Ryman stage how grateful I am to have been a part of country music for the last 10 years.

Sam Hunt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m just really excited that we’re just now at the launch. It’s really come to life – there’s a real business and there are incredible products, great fabrics and just incredible garments that fit well. We really wanted to think about functional performance for people. And how our work transitions to our personal life and our personal life transitions on the weekend is you know – just waking up and you want something comfortable for the whole day, but at the same time, something that is designed and built really well. It’s just the highest quality. I think we really accomplished it and I know that we’re going to continue to do great things over a long period of time. So much of it was building out a great team and nothing happens overnight. The fact that it’s here now and we’ve had a really great response with our signups and our IG – just the interest has been really fun for me to see. So I hope people love it as much as I do.

Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We went from drought to flood management literally overnight.

Dan Corcoran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You won't see a reversal in the same way you saw the acceleration because these drug distribution networks and addiction become embedded in the community. And it's not like they turn off overnight.

Katherine Keyes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously, the entire gas picture and fuel picture of Europe has changed overnight, it's not fun, but we've got to get through it. [ Climate change ] is not something that goes away. Because Putin invaded Ukraine doesn't mean' okay, climate is over, and we don't have to worry about it.'.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So many patients were coming with really high emotional needs, it's already really challenging because of state restrictions, but you add on to that, potentially, a trip overnight, finding a place to keep your kids while you are seeking care in another state and just feeling like your actions are criminalized in your home state. That was a level of intense support needs that our team has really struggled to fill.

Emily Wales

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[ T ] he emergence of a new regional architecture can not and will not happen overnight, it starts with discrete nano steps, continues with mini steps, before morphing into a mature structure. It seems that in the Negev, an important mini-step in that direction was taken.

Nimrod Novik

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My dreams have just gotten so much bigger, it seems like overnight.

Samiya Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're here in south central Nebraska, and while many may not think that this would be the epicenter of scientific progress, the influx that I've had with people from Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa -- some driving eight or nine hours each way overnight to participate in the study, they are dedicated.

Daniel Leonard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

' Spongy moth' is already beginning to appear in media stories and other online resources, which we're excited to see, but we know this name change won't happen overnight.

Jessica Ware

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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