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"During" in a Sentence (20 examples)
I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.
During summer breaks, I ate dinner at midnight.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
During winter I sleep with two blankets.
Meg called you during your absence.
I feel indebted to you for your help during my illness.
Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty-four hours of light, this does not apply.
During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.
Can you take notes for me during the professor's talk?
He stayed there during the vacation.
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I lived with my parents during the 1970s.
This shop, which was among the few able to stay open during the war, is closed during the whole of August.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
I lived with my parents at several points during the 1980s.
Many of the best examples were produced during the Restoration.
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
These infamous little green men appeared during the decisive seizures or buildings and facilities, only to disappear when associated militias and local troops arrived to consolidate the gains. In this way they provided a measure of deniability—however superficial or implausible—for Moscow.⁴⁰
"What a woman she is!" muttered Biddy, stooping to pick up the scattered potatoes, "I don't see what Providence meant, a-putting such a saint along with an ugly, growling man like Mr. During. I believe he's in his second childhood, I do! […]
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