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Example sentences for "second time"

  • A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

  • To deliver or liberate a second time or again.

  • To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.

  • To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

  • Ilderim read the letters a second time, and refolded them in the linen wrap, and put the package under his girdle.

  • Slop a second time, and with a degree of more zeal and earnestness in his manner of wishing, than he had wished at first (Vide.

  • Buckingham took the casket, and fell a second time on his knees.

  • Laporte in order to be reconducted to the Louvre, should be running about the streets of Paris at half past eleven at night, at the risk of being abducted a second time?

  • Milady," faltered d'Artagnan, and fainted a second time.

  • The cardinal took the letter, and read it with the greatest attention; then, when he had arrived at the end of it, he read it a second time.

  • That evening I had translated an episode of Judith, and had just communicated my verses to the lady, who gave me all sorts of compliments, and leaning on my shoulder, was reading them a second time with me.

  • Then my guide surprised me a second time by offering to teach me to use the zabatana.

  • On the next day there was no change; she was there again, evidently following me, but always invisible, and varied not from that one mocking note of yesterday, which seemed to challenge me to find her a second time.

  • An inferior genius, taking him in hand a second time, would very likely have tried to improve him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtuous.

  • Be satisfied, sir knight, with what you have done, which leaves nothing more to be said on the score of courage, and do not seek to tempt fortune a second time.

  • The commandant had been already made aware of his good fortune in seeing two such famous persons as Don Quixote and Sancho, and the instant they came to the shore all the galleys struck their awnings and the clarions rang out.

  • As he started along the street, he heard the door of the little shop close with a sort of supercareful bang, the key turned, and the latch rattle to try the door--the little old lady was bent on making no mistake a second time!

  • A shrill, high note, like the scream of a parrakeet, rang out a second time.

  • When I rose a second time he again pressed me to stay, which I did.

  • Johnson, in his way home, stopped at my lodgings in Piccadilly, and sat with me, drinking tea a second time, till a late hour.

  • When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, 'Not at all, Sir.

  • SIR,--That I may shew myself sensible of your favours, and not commit the same fault a second time, I make haste to answer the letter which I received this morning.

  • They inhabited these for a second time in 1885, keeping house for themselves in the simple but comfortable foreign manner they both so well enjoyed, only dining and spending the evening with their friend.

  • In this he soon succeeded; and when he again entered the Institute and took out 'Burnet' a second time, he was not only able to read it, but to make written extracts for further use.

  • By this time he had acquired such a love of wandering that he could not rest; so he ran away a second time, and a second time he was brought back by his elder brother, who caught him at Turin.

  • His mother having married a second time, he was taken in charge by an uncle, also a farmer, by whom he was brought up.

  • But putting him aside she addressed the others a second time, saying, "Answer me; who are you?

  • Indeed, he raised his hand to strike him a second time, when the Barmecide cried out that he was mad, upon which my brother controlled himself, and apologised and protested that it was all the fault of the wine he had drunk.

  • Pretending that he wished to read it a second time, Saouy turned aside as if to seek a better light; unperceived by anyone he tore off the formula from the top of the letter, put it to his mouth, and swallowed it.

  • Vexed with having such a bad haul, when he had mended his nets, which the carcase of the ass had broken in several places, he threw them a second time.

  • The fisherman resolved to obey the genius exactly, so he did not cast his nets a second time, but walked into the town to sell his fish at the palace.

  • These words they profess were repeated a second time, expecting our belief for what seems pretty nearly an impossibility.

  • The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.

  • On his saying that it was not his, Mercury disappeared beneath the water a second time, returned with a silver axe in his hand, and again asked the Workman if it were his.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second time" 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:
    being expressed; different persons; getting ready; royal sage; second attack; second chamber; second crop; second death; second demi; second edition; second glance; second officer; second pair; second reading; second series; second session; second time; second vice; second wife; secondary consideration; secondary personality; secondary school; secondary schools; seconds south; split peas; voluntary power