YEAR in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for YEAR, such as:
1. An adult cat may produce kittens three times a year.
2. We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.
3. There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
4. I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
5. They finished the year six places above their local rivals.
2. We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.
3. There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
4. I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
5. They finished the year six places above their local rivals.
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Meanings and Examples of YEAR
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year
n. a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
n. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
2 And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
3 "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
4 He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
5 It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
6 Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
7 He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks.
8 And after that fall he had right here last year when he broke his knee.
9 That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
10 He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
11 The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
12 His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
13 The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
14 Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.
15 Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
2 With a lot of training, we might be able to lick the team into shape in time for next year's games.
3 Surely anyone with marketing gumption should be able to sell good books at any time of year.
4 They finished the year six places above their local rivals.
5 May your birthday bring lots of joy in the year you have begun.
6 We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.
7 According to the calendar my birthday falls on a Sunday this year.
8 The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by thirty percent.
9 They're worried that they won't achieve this year's sales quota.
10 This year's Budget looks set to be a precarious high-wire act for the Chancellor.
11 In their first year at school, most children learn to add and subtract.
12 The administration may try to reflate the economy next year.
13 Eastern Slavonia is to revert to Croatian government rule next year after a transitional period under U.
14 The administration of city schools was centralized last year.
15 An adult cat may produce kittens three times a year.