How to Use closing time in a Sentence

closing time

noun
Definition of closing timenext
  • Even on typical nights, guests can enter an attraction queue until just before the park's closing time.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • If Twitter is a bar at closing time, no one knows what the next stop is.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • When school is back in session, the business will open around 2 or 3 p.m. with the same closing time.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The men drank and bowled until the 11 p.m. closing time, then walked out to their cars together.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The shelters are open 24 hours a day until their closing time.
    — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • On some nights, the $6 hot dog at closing time was the best money spent and most remembered.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • On Black Friday, the store opens at 6 a.m. but closing time varies by location.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Nights at the Ranch lost their punk-rock allure, like someone suddenly turned on the lights at closing time.
    — Meta Valentic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the evening, near closing time, the attitude of the staff conveys a kind of permission to unwind, a weary slowness.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • For folks abroad, those who made it inside the consulate offices by closing time would have 30 minutes to cast their vote.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024
  • Micky’s Joint, a bar and restaurant that just opened in Hamilton, features late-night happy hours from 9:30 p.m. to closing time.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
  • One day, at the zoo’s closing time, Mrs. Pickles happened to lay her eggs in the soil in front of a herpetology keeper.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2024
  • As the hour grew closer to 7 p.m., the usual closing time, and the sun began to fade, the hall was still crowded, as staff began to lay out plates, desserts and drinks for iftar.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • At closing time at midnight, the East Texas country dance hall typically turns the lights on and lets customers have one last dance.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Each dining hall stays open past the regular closing time one day a week during Ramadan.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • There are dinner seatings at 5, 7 and 9 p.m., and Spellbound is expected to close around midnight, though there is no hard closing time.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That's when customers can get a free drink with their purchase of another between noon local time and closing time.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Doors open at 10 a.m. both days; closing time is 6 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Hours will be extended from the normal closing time of 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Thursdays through Labor Day.
    — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • The roof over the library’s children’s section buckled shortly before closing time due to layers of heavy snow piled into a 5-foot drift.
    — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • For the surging Bruins, closing time was closeout time against the same Oregon team that had beaten them by five in late December in Eugene.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That is, of course, until closing time comes around, leading to the titular lyrics implying taking someone home after the last drink of the night is finished.
    — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Jeff McKean, an attorney who represents El Chila, blamed much of the violence on a taco truck that parked outside the bar around closing time.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
  • For instance, Nicole Kidman came by Mystic Pizza around closing time once while filming a project nearby.
    — Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The boxes arrived less than an hour before closing time at the registrar of voters' office, just meeting the deadline after a six-month drive.
    — Kevin McGill, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But this rollercoaster of scoring the past three games is why there remains concern about Tyler as a go-to player at closing time (and why the Heat continue to miss Jimmy Butler).
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • People lined up deep into the cold winter night on election day and hours after the official poll closing time, with some votes being cast at 3 a.m. the following day.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 June 2024
  • The worker appeared to be cleaning the restaurant ahead of closing time when one suspect threw her drink at the employee, according to surveillance video.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the burglaries took place after closing time, with thieves smashing doors and display cases before stealing the items and escaping by car.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • On DoorDash, the restaurant was listed as closed to orders at 4 p.m. — one hour before the restaurant’s advertised closing time.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023

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