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450 examples of Overnight in a sentence

If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.
During the Haiti earthquake, a number of engineers and product managers spontaneously came together and stayed overnight to build a tool to allow earthquake victims to find their loved ones.
Democracy is not an overnight achievement; it's a process.
We went from almost no Afghans having mobile telephones during the Taliban to a situation where, almost overnight, three million Afghans had mobile telephones.
We saw the food riots in 2008, after what I call the silent tsunami of hunger swept the globe when food prices doubled overnight.
That doesn't happen overnight, I am telling you right here, it is a lifelong journey, but it's one we all need to take.
Again, it will not happen overnight.
And we're not all going to become facial expression experts overnight here, but there's one I can teach you that's very dangerous and it's easy to learn, and that's the expression of contempt.
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed.
Virtually overnight, thousands of people could use drugs under supervision.
But this didn't happen overnight.
It had become a community gathering place overnight.
Richard Dawkins: "We've evolved around courtship and sex, are attached to deep-rooted emotions and reactions that are hard to jettison overnight."
When the tomatoes were nice and ripe and red, overnight, some 200 hippos came out from the river and they ate everything.
It was easy for me to stand out, which couldn't hurt in a world that was rapidly changing, where skills could become obsolete overnight.
If we work overnight, we should be paid for overtime.
Change the incentives, and the behavior changes, and the states that have adopted small dollar funded systems have seen overnight a change in the practice.
It did not happen overnight.
Then, the world changed overnight.
Now some people don't like to wait in long queues, maybe overnight, even in the rain.
And the difference between just going and visiting for half a day or three quarters of a day versus staying overnight was profound, and so let me just give you one explanation of that.
But what is really interesting about chronic diseases is that when the person, for example, has a problem that leads to the hospital and the emergency room, this problem doesn't happen overnight.
Almost overnight, the proportion of men in the NBA who are at least seven feet tall doubled to 10 percent.
See, 30 years ago, you had the first digital samplers, and they changed everything overnight.
It could be a new technology that renders your business model obsolete overnight.
Bob Chapman, who runs a large manufacturing company in the Midwest called Barry-Wehmiller, in 2008 was hit very hard by the recession, and they lost 30 percent of their orders overnight.
This took place in Egypt in January 2011, and as President Hosni Mubarak attempted a desperate move to quash the rising revolution on the streets of Cairo, he sent his personal troops down to Egypt's Internet service providers and had them physically kill the switch on the country's connection to the world overnight.
I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war.
We can't expect to solve it overnight.
And Herschel's recognition that something was different, that something wasn't quite right, was the discovery of a planet, the planet Uranus, a name that has entertained countless generations of children, but a planet that overnight doubled the size of our known solar system.
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