What's the difference between tonight and yesterday?

Tonight


Definition:

  • (adv.) On this present or coming night.
  • (adv.) On the last night past.
  • (n.) The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Asked whether the club would be in new hands by tonight, he said: "There is a board meeting this evening to determine whether or not that is the case."
  • (2) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
  • (3) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
  • (4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (5) Reading your post I couldn't help but think tonight's simpletons had undergone a similar experience."
  • (6) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
  • (7) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (8) "Tonight we can celebrate, but tomorrow we have to go back to work", she said, but her followers didn't have any of it.
  • (9) Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat, said: “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson cannot be here tonight.
  • (10) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (11) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
  • (12) None got away, although a handful of flights were due to land tonight.
  • (13) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.51pm BST Asked whether Bayern might bottle it because of the expectation on them tonight, Thomas Muller shrugs and says: "Except for the game against Barcelona, there hasn't been a situation where Bayern weren't favourites."
  • (14) I didn’t see him tonight,” smiled the alderman.
  • (15) Labor is trying to push this story into tonight's TV news bulletins.
  • (16) Tonight was about the result and the performance, following the flat displays against Everton and Newcastle.
  • (17) He had the best jump in the field this season going into this, but even so - few were predicting he'd win tonight.
  • (18) That's all for tonight - for all joined us tonight, tomorrow or wherever you are, thank you for reading.
  • (19) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
  • (20) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.

Yesterday


Definition:

  • (n.) The day last past; the day next before the present.
  • (n.) Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
  • (adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (3) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
  • (4) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (5) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (6) A ­senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
  • (7) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (8) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (9) Yesterday a new French president was elected – he was elected with a strong mandate which he can take into a strong position in negotiations.
  • (10) At yesterday's EGM in London some 93% of votes cast by non-Bolloré Group shareholders opposed his plan.
  • (11) "Oil is extending the weakness that we saw yesterday.
  • (12) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
  • (13) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
  • (14) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
  • (15) Yesterday's results: Torino 1-0 Cagliari, Siena 0-0 Livorno, Sampdoria 2-1 Atalanta, Reggina 1-1 Fiorentina, Palermo 0-0 Milan, Lazio 3-1 Catania, Inter 1-1 Udinese, Empoli 3-1 Messina, Chievo 2-2 Roma, Ascoli 0-0 Parma.
  • (16) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
  • (17) Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, confirmed in his first media policy speech yesterday that Labour's plan for independently financed news consortiums would be scrapped .
  • (18) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
  • (19) Yesterday student occupations were continuing in at least nine universities – including sit-ins in Leeds, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, University College London, Brighton, Newcastle and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.
  • (20) Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg yesterday and South African media report that he has been seen by a specialist pulmonologist who treats respiratory disorders.

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