PERIOD in a Sentence

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354 example sentences for PERIOD, such as:
1. You can have it for a trial period.
2. A lengthy period of training is required.
3. The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.
4. This offer is available for a limited period only.
5. The South African years were his most creative period.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PERIOD
period
 n.  a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
 n.  (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  It was a source of great satisfaction to him, he said--and, he was sure, to all others present--to feel that a long period of mistrust and misunderstanding had now come to an end.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  These covered a period of many years, but I observed that the entries ceased nearly a year ago and quite abruptly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
5  Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets; and, on all occasions during the period of betrothal, took a manufacturing aspect.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
6  Office-hours were over: and at that period of the day, in warm weather, she usually embellished with her genteel presence, a managerial board-room over the public office.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
7  Yet it was remarkable that she sat as still as ever the amiable woman in ambuscade had seen her sit, at any period in her life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
8  Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  The castle and town of Ashby, at this time, belonged to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who, during the period of our history, was absent in the Holy Land.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  The access, as usual in castles of the period, lay through an arched barbican, or outwork, which was terminated and defended by a small turret at each corner.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  "It may be magic spells for aught I know," said De Bracy, who possessed his full proportion of the ignorance which characterised the chivalry of the period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  And well and chivalrous did De Bracy that day maintain the fame he had acquired in the civil wars of that dreadful period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  At this period of the trial, the Grand Master commanded Rebecca to unveil herself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  The new administration is still in the shakedown period.
2  Eastern Slavonia is to revert to Croatian government rule next year after a transitional period under U.
3  The South African years were his most creative period.
4  The value of the property almost doubled during the interim period.
5  Few would dispute his status as the finest artist of the period.
6  This offer is available for a limited period only.
7  What has gone is that beautiful period;which remains is the precious friendship between us.
8  The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.
9  A lengthy period of training is required.
10  Mary was restored to health after a period of medical treatment.
11  The project will run for a six-month trial period.
12  You can have it for a trial period.
13  During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping.
14  Ladder ladder are never used to feet, it just makes people 's feet for a period of time, in order to let a foot to go on board.
15  She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.