How to Use opening night in a Sentence

opening night

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  • The opening night malaise wasn’t all due to the defense.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • On the opening night of the playoffs, the 10th-seeded Pirates bowed out.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The first 300 people through the maze on opening night receive a goodie bag filled with prizes..
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The film will premiere at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival on opening night.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The first performance of the show on Broadway will take place April 24 at 2 p.m. and will also be the show’s opening night.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The band’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, broke down the opening night set — and explained some of the other cues, too.
    — Austin Considine, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But on opening night last weekend, the music was so loud that a couple of singers were shouting their lyrics near the end of the show.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • By the sound check on opening night, both artists had been visibly nudged out of their comfort zones.
    — Joshua Barone, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • When the musical made its way to Los Angeles in 2007, the couple were again amongst the crowd on opening night.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • On opening night, none of the friends and family paid for anything, even though the restaurant is already deep in debt.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The footloose couple performed on the opening night of the Symphony of Dance tour in Melbourne, Fl.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Mae West, Richard Nixon and Liberace were in the audience on opening night.
    — Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Low has now been to the Eras Tour four times, including a last-minute decision to fly to Glendale for opening night.
    — Town & Country, 12 July 2023
  • Many people were outraged about the presence of Johnny Depp on opening night last year.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But Sanz wasn’t the only international star who performed on the opening night of the event.
    — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The song has been absent for the majority of the tour, save for opening night in Stockholm and a mid-August date in Atlanta.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the Pistons have lost 19 of 20 in a disaster of a season that began with a win over the Magic on opening night.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The first pitch of the game against the San Diego Padres is scheduled to be delivered at 7:05 p.m. local time, making this opening day an opening night.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Video from the opening night of the tour at the O2 Arena in London showed the pop star strumming an acoustic guitar and singing the first verse and chorus — along with the entire crowd singing.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Alabama kicks things off on opening night Aug. 3, with Trace Adkins' headlining the stage on the fair's last night Aug. 13.
    — Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Once Ben is murdered on opening night, the cast and crew — not least of all Streep’s Loretta, who despised Ben — become suspects.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • As on opening night, the first of those songs featured Swift on acoustic guitar while the second was done while seated at a piano.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Preview performances were scheduled to start on Feb. 27 ahead of opening night on March 12.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • On opening night, Staples muffled some of Nottage’s words so that a bit of the playwright’s poetry was lost.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Rosters for opening night need to be finalized by Oct. 23 . . .
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The artist will be joined by Drake during his own headlining set on the event’s second day, while Usher will headline on opening night.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • At least one audience member arrived on opening night with an Illya Kuryakin T-shirt.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • At 8 on opening night, after a year of preparation, the imaginary curtain will lift.
    — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Below, a glimpse behind the scenes of Purlie Victorious’s opening night.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self and all that jazz.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2024

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