Use day in a sentence
Sentences starting with day
- Day by day, year by year, new readers are coming forward with curiosity and intellectual wants. [4]
- Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
- Day after to-morrow will be Ascension Day, when the bells will ring for the great fair. [10]
- Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
- Day by day, when I, saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love: I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. [14]
- Day and night were alike to him. [10]
- Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil. [5]
- Day by day we lose some of our restlessness and absorb some of the spirit of quietude and ease that is in the tranquil atmosphere about us and in the demeanor of the people. [5]
- Day after tomorrow we leave for the hills beyond Elmira, N. Y. for the summer, when I shall hope to write a book of some sort or other to beat the people with. [5]
- Day after day we issued forth from a musty and highly respectable hotel near Piccadilly to a gloomy Tower, a soggy Hampton Court or a mournful British Museum. [9]
Sentences ending with day
- You've told me yourself, how the Hebrews were persecuted in your dead father's day. [10]
- You may take your turn with my shears and needle one day. [11]
- Is it in your mind that we shall cross swords one day? [11]
- The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
- I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
- With regard to your alliance with the Arabs, and whether it becomes you--being what you are--to take service with them, we will discuss it at a future day. [10]
- You said that you would tell me some day. [11]
- I would like you to provide a proper outfit and start north as soon as I telegraph you, be it night or be it day. [5]
- Shall I tell you some things the Professor said the other day? [6]
- I shall ask you more questions some day. [9]
Short sentences using day
- One day there was trouble. [11]
- The following day was Sunday. [11]
- The next day was Sunday. [10]
- So the day was fixed! [10]
- The next day was dark. [9]
- All day she tortured herself. [11]
- What day is to-day? [9]
- Day perched garishly there. [11]
- Till Michaelmas day, then! [11]
- The next day the same. [5]
Sentences containing day two or more times
- Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
- I never told you--but you remember the day the old Duke died, the day we were married? [11]
- But it made you seem sorrowfully trivial, and the creature of a day, and such a short and paltry day, too. [5]
- But, no, no, you have not thought well of me, or you would have known that every day I cared, every day I watched, and waited, and hoped--and believed! [11]
- We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
- Are those countries working that kind of lie, day in and day out, in thousands and thousands of varieties, without ever resting? [5]
- Otherwise their day will be short indeed; and I should wish for them a day a little longer at least than my day and span. [11]
- So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
- Last Friday, Fred Whitmore (it was the 28th day of his apprenticeship on the machine) stacked up 49,700 ems of solid nonpareil in 8 hours, and the type-breaking delay was only 6 minutes for the day. [5]
- Some day the west will be numerically strong enough to move the seat of government; her past attempts are a fair warning that when the day comes she will do it. [5]
More example sentences with the word day in them
- We marched into Zermatt the next day, and were received with the most lavish honors and applause. [5]
- She said: "If you've done wrong, Si Hawkins, it's a wrong that will shine brighter at the judgment day than the rights that many' a man has done before you. [5]
- Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
- If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
- The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
- Besides, it is your last day here. [11]
- Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
- The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
- The day after your baptism she died. [11]
- He is a young Titan, and no one would be astonished if he one day succeeded in piling Pelion upon Ossa. [10]
- At last the young soldier departed, and the very same day Adam was summoned to the monastery, to mend something in the grating before the treasury. [10]
- Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
- The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
- Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- Neither of the young men felt like attempting to see Laura that day, and she saw no company except the newspaper reporters, until the arrival of Col. [5]
- Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
- That's the sound you'll hear every day of your life, if you break the promise you've got to make to me now. [11]
- And I tell you,"--his jaw was set,--"I tell you that some day Eliphalet Hopper will be one of the richest men in the West. [9]
- I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
- When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
- They belong to you, not to me, and this very day I will send them to the noble Julia, that she may give them to you. [10]
- I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour, and force it. [7]
- Good to see you, Captain, on a day like this. [9]
- Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
- And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you. [11]
- Perhaps some day you will remember it. [9]
- For an hour you will hate me; for a day you will resent me, and then you will begin to love me. [11]
- What was that you were telling about Charles Lamb, the other day, Mandeville? [4]
- Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
- Alors, some of you was out to hurt our friend M'sieu' Carnac here, and I didn't say no to it; but you'd better keep your weapons for election day and use them agin Barode Barouche. [11]
- They will seize you to-morrow, or the day after. [10]
- He will tell you to this day how Mr. Catherwood's carriage was pocketed by drays and bales, and how Mrs. James's horses were seized by the bridles and turned back. [9]
- But I tell you this, gentlemen, that you will live to see the day when you will bitterly regret this injustice to an innocent and a noble woman, and Isaac D. Worthington will live to regret it. [9]
- Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
- I says: "Now you think it's bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? [5]
- Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
- To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
- I could tell you something--the history of this day, even--that would make you despise me. [8]
- Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
- On that day you must call me Miss Jinny. [9]
- From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
- I will marry you in two months-and a day. [11]
- And I'll see you in a day or two in Washington, Watling. [9]
- All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
- I exist--to see you for ten minutes a day. [9]
- Tell me how you fared in the light of evening, at the end of that bloody day. [11]
- I said, "Don't you do it; you come to New England on a favorable spring day. [5]
- Any time that you can make it convenient to tarry a day or two with me, I shall be glad to have you. [5]
- Night and day you can find him pegging away at Smith, panting with his labor, sleeves rolled up, countenance all alive with enjoyment. [5]
- Enough to give you bread from day to day-no more. [11]
- The very day you and I began to know each other! [9]
- How strange that you and I alone to this day should have his secret! [6]
- But I warn you all that a time 's coming when you're going to feel sick whenever you think of this day. [5]
- I will give you a specimen of Hipponax's Poetry: "There are but two days when a wife, Brings pleasure to her husband's life, The wedding-day, when hopes are bright, And the day he buries her out of his sight. [10]
- I will show you a man presently who was accustomed to nibble at eight meals a day. [5]
- I go to York to-morrow, to be back this day fortnight. [9]
- The day passed, yet the embers blazed not into the flame of open mutiny. [9]
- The day before yesterday, do you know, I still was not quite clear about it all. [10]
- The day before yesterday the Elector John Frederick of Saxony and the Landgrave Philip of Hesse had been banned, and with this the war began. [10]
- I recall as yesterday the day Captain Clapsaddle rode to the Hall, his horse covered with sweat, and the reluctant tidings of Captain Jack Carvel's death on his lips. [9]
- I wrote you yesterday my darling, and shall expect to write you every day. [5]
- But day before yesterday I concluded to go out of the Galaxy on the strength of it, so I have turned it into the last Memoranda I shall ever write, and published it as a "specimen chapter" of my forthcoming book. [5]
- The examinations of yesterday count for nothing to-day--he makes a new examination every day. [5]
- Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
- Let me see--why, yes, she was born the day I sold the blue enamelled timepiece to his Highness the Duc de Mauban. [11]
- In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
- When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
- For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
- For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
- For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
- On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us. [9]
- Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
- In that fatal year I had my first attack of authors' lead-poisoning, and I have never got quite rid of it from that day to this. [6]
- Aye, I've watched ye, since the day ye first set foot in this church. [9]
- How differently--so he wrote--had he hoped to end this day which must be devoted to the rescue of her friends. [10]
- The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
- The letter you wrote me, never a day or night has passed but, one way or another, it has come home to me. [11]
- The principle is wrong, the day is past when such things can be done--in that way. [9]
- His own words written that fateful day before he died at the Cote Dorion came to him: "Sacristan, acolyte, player, or preacher, Each to his office, but who holds the key? [11]
- I have not written less than 30 pages any day since I began. [5]
- It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
- But I will write out his wonderful escape in full to-morrow or next day. [5]
- I could not write in the hotel itself, so I went to the annex, and in the big building--in the early spring-time--I worked night and day. [11]
- Nay, I would write him that day. [9]
- Every day I write (in my head) bitter magazine articles about it, but I have to stop with that. [5]
- Sonya said you wouldn't go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn't help going. [2]
- Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
- This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
- Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
- Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. [5]
- She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. [10]
- By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
- But as luck would have it, the Governor had been that day in such worry and perplexity, and my grandfather also, that my absence had passed unnoticed. [9]
- And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
- How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
- Some day she would discover what he meant. [9]
- Everybody believed I would die; but on the fourteenth day a change came for the worse and they were disappointed. [5]
- Besides, Trinity Day would bring the end of it all, and that was not far off. [11]
- A fresh chapter would begin tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof. [11]
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