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"Period" in a Sentence (51 examples)
The students' lunch period is from twelve to one.
We have English third period.
The party stayed in Kyoto for a short period.
Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.
If I'm away from home for a period of time, I will stop mail delivery.
Go easy on Bob. You know, he's been going though a rough period recently.
The setting of the story is Japan in the late Meiji period.
The period is referred to as the Stone Age.
She was superstitious, as the people of that period usually were.
The drama on TV was so popular that it stirred up people's interest in the period.
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There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."
Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period.
‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’
My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.
When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
I have math class in second period.
Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
They won in the first overtime period.
As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]
And if my death might make this island happy, And prove the period of their tyranny, I would expend it with all willingness:
Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.
All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…].
When Loue thus in his Center ends, Desire and Hope, his inward friends Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe, The weakest giuers of reliefe, Stand in his councell as the chiefe: And now he to his period brought, From Loue becomes some other thought.
Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill The last sand make his Period.
[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…]
So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d.
Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […]
A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic!
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).
Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.
a period car
a period TV commercial
Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
a period piece
As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
period pains
period blood
period supplies
I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!
I'm the GOAT, point blank period!
For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
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