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Example sentences for "during the"

  • During the summer I found it very pleasant to live by myself.

  • I went to a window and looked out, and could just barely see that something like a big building had grown up during the night.

  • I was going into town the other morning, when my wife handed me a little piece of red calico, and asked me if I would have time, during the day, to buy her two yards and a half of calico like it.

  • It fully substantiates the statement made by this journal some time ago that the Episcopal churches were, during the revolution, "nests of tories and traitors.

  • IX It was some two months later in the year, and the pair had met constantly during the interval.

  • During the remainder of the morning he helped his aunt, and in the afternoon, when there was nothing more to be done, he went into the village.

  • V During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular vehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and by-roads near Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.

  • Vanamee stood by during the ceremony, but half conscious of what was going forward.

  • Of late, during the rascal's sickness, these visits had been almost daily.

  • During the months of Rebecca's stay in Hampshire, the eternal friendship had (must it be owned?

  • During the dinner a horn filled with ale passed frequently around; I drank of it more than once, and felt inspirited by the draughts.

  • Two or three times, however, during the day, I wavered in my determination, and was again and again almost tempted to follow her, but every succeeding time the temptation was fainter.

  • The food situation is precarious; during the 1980s famine has been averted only through international relief.

  • During the siege, the doctor had discovered that his intended son-in-law was a fine surgeon.

  • This afternoon, during the hour of siesta, will you come with me?

  • During the whole of the 20th, there was almost a Sabbath stillness.

  • During the afternoon, smoke and flame, and strange and sickening odors were blown northward of the city, and for some time it seemed probable that a great conflagration would follow the battle.

  • That for the Princess Emma," he called to the governor of Blentz, and then men crowded between them and he did not see the captain again during the battle.

  • During the long, hard ride there had been little or no conversation between the American and his friend, for Butzow was still unsuspicious of the true identity of the man who posed as the ruler of Lutha.

  • During the daytime of the 11th of December I was busy reading in the large drawing-room.

  • During the day a formidable troop of sharks accompanied us, terrible creatures, which multiply in these seas and make them very dangerous.

  • During the forenoons, while he went about his work, he thought of her.

  • Until ten o'clock he tramped forward, then camped again in the shade of one of the rare rock ledges, and "lay up" during the heat of the day.

  • No doubt he had been meditating it during the supper.

  • The crew are anxious that we should cast off and steam round the floe and so to the southward, for the ice has opened up during the night, and the sea is visible upon the horizon.

  • During the day I was busy with my distillations and analyses.

  • The members of the Congress are rendered ineligible to any civil offices that may be created, or of which the emoluments may be increased, during the term of their election.

  • During the autumn of 1876, after the fall of Custer, Sitting Bull was hunted all through the Yellowstone region by the military.

  • During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.

  • I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.

  • During the morning I attended the motions of the cottagers, and when they were dispersed in various occupations, I slept; the remainder of the day was spent in observing my friends.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "during the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil causes; concerning whom; die for; during his; during life; during many; during pregnancy; during several; during the; during the breeding season; during the greater part; during the last years; during the past year; during the present session; during the rainy season; during the whole time; during their; during those; during which; had bought; knew you; like her; morrow afternoon; resumed the; sharp frost; what the traffic will