DAY in a Sentence

Learn DAY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for DAY, such as:
1. Any day of the week is fine.
2. She nagged at him all day along.
3. The day agreed upon was pouring rain.
4. Jack would argue and eff all day long.
5. Next day Gatsby called me on the phone.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DAY
day
 n.  time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
 n.  the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I was a mere skeleton, and fever night and day preyed upon my wasted frame.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
2  The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  "Come to lunch some day," he suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  The day agreed upon was pouring rain.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  The day of my departure at length arrived.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  Next day Gatsby called me on the phone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  It was a cold fall day with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  It would probably be on the fourth day from the present.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
11  The sailor of that day would go near to be arraigned as a pirate in our own.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
12  Sir John had been very urgent with them all to spend the next day at the park.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  It was every day implied, but never professedly declared.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
14  But the day did not close so auspiciously as it began.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
15  I spent the following day roaming through the valley.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They are busy preparing for a hectic day's activity on Saturday.
2  After a day of air and activity, you should be in the mood for a good meal.
3  Every day they are talking about peace but actually preparing for war.
4  For the first time in three years, they actually had the luxury of a whole day together.
5  Most people worked an eight-hour day twenty years ago.
6  She nagged at him all day along.
7  He'd already spent all his money by the second day of the trip.
8  After just one day, she had already made an enemy of her manager.
9  It's late in the day to think of a change of plan when we've already ordered the materials.
10  It is also worth tagging on an extra day or two to see the capital.
11  Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another.
12  Any day of the week is fine.
13  Do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.
14  Shoplifters appear to have had a field day at the January sales.
15  Jack would argue and eff all day long.