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Example sentences for "three nights"

  • Mr. Mathews commenced a three nights' engagement at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich.

  • And when they had come nigh unto the wall, the wind, as it rustled and murmured through the copper network, made music so soft and sweet that they fell into a gentle slumber, and slept for three days and three nights.

  • They played for three days and three nights, neither side being able to win a single goal from the other during the whole time.

  • They stayed in this place for three days and three nights, and each morning the maiden came forth in the same manner, and filled her pail.

  • Robert Heller got in a three nights engagement, commencing May the 20th, while the company was getting up in "Arrah Na Pogue.

  • It was notable for its length, covering a stretch of twenty-three nights; likewise for its strength, as George B.

  • The Lingards followed Hernandez in a brief engagement of three nights, June 12th to 14th.

  • Then, three nights ago, I grew brave enough to go and stand by the desk, and look over his shoulder, as it were, while he wrote the note which I showed you this morning.

  • I made up for my three nights' lack of sleep by not waking the next morning till after ten.

  • I think, as it was, I proved my devotion pretty well by not going to sleep, since I had been up three nights, with only such naps as I could steal in the saddle, and had ridden over a hundred and fifty miles to boot.

  • After he had lost two or three nights of sleep he actually used to make arrangements to take a berth on an express train going out of his city, ride until the morning and then come back.

  • This makes Christ a liar; for he said, "As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

  • He must have been there the three days and the three nights, according to his word.

  • Christ said three days and three nights, and he certainly must be right.

  • Thus it did for two or three nights together.

  • In three nights of observation at Lawrence, Kansas, marked by very high densities, the directional trend was north by north-northeast with a variation of less than 8 deg.

  • Consequently, I returned in 1948 by freighter to Progreso, Yucatan, where telescopic counts were made for three nights, one of which was rendered almost valueless by the cloud cover.

  • Directional components in the flight at Tampico on three nights in 1948.

  • Firms which printed monthly magazines needed women to fold all night for two or three nights or more at the end of each month.

  • They were the hands who went to different firms for two or three nights a month to help in a recognised rush of work which occurred regularly.

  • The unemployed town-dweller might be given an identification note enabling him to return for from two to three nights and to seek work meanwhile.

  • Distribution is then made to them, and things were pleasing to them, and they stayed three days and three nights in it after that over the feasting.

  • They have been three days and three nights in it but that we perceived not the night with the white light of the precious stones in the house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    seemed much; seems probable; three boys; three chapters; three children; three different; three equal; three fathom; three generations; three grains; three horses; three hundred and sixty; three hundred thousand francs; three legs; three lions; three quarters; three shillings; three small; three sons; three species; three states; three stories; three times round the; three weeks; three were; three years