Use during in a sentence
Sentences starting with during
- During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
- During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
- During his later years the rigor of the Northern winter had been too severe for Warner's health. [4]
- During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- During all the years of our married life, he has never said such a thing as that. [9]
- During the first years of my convalescence I could enjoy nothing save what came or was brought to me. [10]
- During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
- During the early years of his literary studies he led a life of great retirement. [6]
- During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America's chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. [5]
Short sentences using during
- Just during the service. [2]
- During the Novara Expedition (23. [1]
- During this conversation? [10]
Sentences containing during two or more times
- These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. [1]
- It is an unquestionable fact that during the reconstruction period which followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dangerous precedents than during the war itself. [7]
- During the whole time of his convalescence in Orel Pierre had experienced a feeling of joy, freedom, and life; but when during his journey he found himself in the open world and saw hundreds of new faces, that feeling was intensified. [2]
- And it was the same during Paulina's prayers as during her instruction, prayers that often lasted more than hour, and which she had to attend, on her knees on Wednesday and Friday, and with hands uplifted on all the other days of the week. [10]
- Pierre felt that that fatal force which had crushed him during the executions, but which he had not felt during his imprisonment, now again controlled his existence. [2]
- Despite all the terror of what had happened during those last days and during the first days of their journey, this feeling that Providence was intervening in her personal affairs cheered Sonya. [2]
- During the latter ten years of this period he had been a most effective and forcible leader-writer on political and social questions, never more so than during the storm and stress of the Civil War. [4]
- As the case stands, the loud voice of the stag during the breeding-season does not seem to be of any special service to him, either during his courtship or battles, or in any other way. [1]
- Pierre changed places several times during the game, sitting now with his back to Natasha and now facing her, but during the whole of the six rubbers he watched her and his friend. [2]
- The income from sales during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, was $678,007.21, against $136,077.95 received during the preceding year. [7]
More example sentences with the word during in them
- He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
- He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit. [6]
- I can tell you all that you wish to know, my Master, for, during forty-five years, I devoted my humble services to the sick poor there. [10]
- It was twelve years since, during the plague. [10]
- During the latter years of his life he became increasingly interested in social questions, some of which partook of a semi-political character. [4]
- Besides, during the years of her intercourse with Massi she had heard many things about his residence--nay, every member of his household--and therefore she could now form a picture of his future life. [10]
- During the first years I worked almost exclusively at home, for I was permitted to go out only in very pleasant weather. [10]
- During the seventy years I have lived I have grown to have but little faith in outward demonstration, to believe in deeds and attainments rather than expressions. [9]
- During these six years I have been living a life of peaceful ignorance. [5]
- During the long years he had been coming to Fairview, even before the new house was built, when Victoria was in pinafores, he had never understood her. [9]
- Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
- During the first year or, two after it happened, I could not bear to think of it. [5]
- During the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness. [7]
- For during that year I first tasted the intoxicating pleasure of authorship. [3]
- During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
- The remarkable changes wrought during my lifetime in the political affairs of Germany I can merely indicate here. [10]
- The letters he wrote during that period have not survived. [5]
- He must have written more than once during this period, but the next existing letter--also to Sister Pamela--was written in October. [5]
- These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
- On no account would she have left the capital during this period of decision, and, though her husband earnestly entreated her to go to the springs, whose waters had proved so beneficial, she remained in Brussels. [10]
- This she hoped would repay Didymus for the injury which, to her deep regret, had been inflicted upon him, and at least partially repair the loss sustained by the former library of the museum during the conflagration in the Bruchium. [10]
- During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
- His swift horses would not need more than that time for the journey, and during their absence the rest of the party could move from the inn. [10]
- Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory. [10]
- Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
- I've added 60,000 words in the month that I've been here; which indicates that I've dictated during 20 days of that time--40 hours, at an average of 1,500 words an hour. [5]
- He and the woman he loved, who had first become really his own during a time of sore privation, had run into the harbour and gazed quietly at the storms of life. [10]
- After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
- During Paaker's interview with the poet, the dwarf Nemu had chatted to the porter, and had learned from him all that had previously occurred. [10]
- His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
- The officials intrusted with the examination of the ringleaders had remained during the day in this hastily erected open hut. [10]
- During the interviews with Sappho, Zopyrus and the attendants used all their endeavors to kill a few snipes, jackals or jerboas. [10]
- During her conversation with Mrs. Kame she had more than once suspected, in spite of her efforts, that the lady had read her state of mind. [9]
- The veteran Memnon, with his one arm, had kept watch on the temple-roof during that night's orgy, planning measures for repulsing the enemy's attack, till the storm had burst on him and his adherents with the "artillery of heaven. [10]
- Newspapers filled her with dread, but it was from a newspaper, during the first year of her retirement, that she had learned of the death of Howard Spence. [9]
- The wise abbot wished to avoid anything, that would cause excitement, during this time of rebellion against the power of the Church, but the magistrate claimed the right to commence proceedings against the doctor. [10]
- They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
- During the first winter the King allowed them to spend only the most inclement months at Philae, for he was unwilling to live without them. [10]
- A drawing-room, the window of which has been carelessly left open during a dust-storm, is indeed an extraordinary sight. [5]
- The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
- Mr. Motley's successor will find his mission wonderfully facilitated by the firmness and discretion that have presided over the conduct of American affairs in this country during too brief a term, too suddenly and unaccountably concluded. [6]
- During this the wife's teeth held together as though they were of a piece. [11]
- Man has spread widely over the face of the earth, and must have been exposed, during his incessant migrations (63. [1]
- The great Destroyer, whose awful shadow it was that had silenced me, came near me,--but never, so as to be distinctly seen and remembered, during my tender years. [6]
- They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
- So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
- As, during the whole pepper-harvest, they feed exclusively on this stimulant, they become exceedingly irritable. [6]
- But, during the whole of her recital, she could not rid herself of the apprehension that he was thinking her interference unwarranted, her coming an indelicate repetition of the other visit. [9]
- The white-cap student who won the second fight witnessed the remaining three, and talked with us during the intermissions. [5]
- Which of you who owns a garden can say in future, 'It is mine,' if, during the absence of the Queen, it is allowable to take it away to be used for any other purpose? [10]
- But to those who loved him he was even more endearing during these outbursts than before. [10]
- One of us who had seen a play during the vacation at home told the others the plot. [10]
- Mr. Alexander Ireland, who had paid him friendly attentions during his earlier visit, and whose impressions of him in the pulpit have been given on a previous page, urged his coming. [6]
- The five hundred who during the next three months are to register the laws find quarters as best they can. [9]
- The few ladies who called during the day out of kindness or curiosity, or both, only added to her torture. [9]
- The chariot with white horses which he had evaded during his flight with Irene belonged to Eulaeus. [10]
- And flourishing his whip he rode off at a gallop for the first time during the whole campaign, and left the broken ranks of the soldiers laughing joyfully and shouting "Hurrah! [2]
- What I learned while seeking after truth during those night hours ought to have taught me the connection between mind and body; yet I was never farther from perceiving it. [10]
- During the period while he was engaged in writing it, his wife, who had seemed in perfect health, died suddenly of pneumonia. [6]
- He felt intoxicated, while he was alive to the fact that during the descent of the few steps she was suffering great pain. [10]
- And after breakfast, while Aunt Mary occupied herself with that immemorial institution,--which was to lure hitherwards so many prominent citizens of St. Louis during the day,--eggnogg, Peter surveyed the offerings which transformed the sitting-room. [9]
- During these spectacles, which were followed by other similar ones, Barbara had been thinking of her own affairs, and gazed more frequently at her lover and his distinguished guests than at the former. [10]
- After his death, which took place during his defence of a friend in the public court, a temple was erected to him by his countrymen. [10]
- The terror with which this spectacle had disturbed her sleep could not be banished during the morning. [10]
- During breakfast, of which the steward was obliged to remind him, Hermon pondered over his fate; but how could he attain any degree of clearness of vision until he secured accurate information concerning the statue of Demeter? [10]
- The low words which the artist exchanged with the woman whose love, even during the period of separation, would shed light and warmth upon his darkened life, were deeply impressed upon the souls of both. [10]
- During the days which succeeded the mass for the dead the Ortlieb mansion was very silent. [10]
- During the ecossaise, which she also danced with him, Anatole said nothing when they happened to be by themselves, but merely gazed at her. [2]
- In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
- The time during which Ledscha could repeat "When the moon is over Pelican Island" was past; already its course had led it beyond. [10]
- During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
- An interval, during which Hodder was suddenly struck with this designation of himself. [9]
- During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
- Every pet name which he had once been so glad to hear, and during recent years had forgotten, again fell from her lips. [10]
- The conflagration, at which he had looked with so much indifference the evening before, had greatly increased during the night. [2]
- During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
- During the week which had passed since Austen's departure the house in Hanover Street had been haunted for Hilary. [9]
- They possess organs which are used during the breeding-season for producing vocal and instrumental music. [1]
- Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. [9]
- It opened afresh when in her parents' house, where during my convalescence I was a frequent guest, I myself advised her to marry a young land-owner, who eagerly wooed her. [10]
- During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
- During their absence, when Charmian had been attacked by sickness, Cleopatra had often entrusted the care of her toilet to Aisopion, and had praised her skill. [10]
- I picked up what I could under that head during the afternoon. [5]
- During the weeks we've been at sea, bursting along, have I proved myself? [11]
- Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
- In this district were three large cemeteries, in which during the previous year more than three thousand bodies had been buried. [5]
- Some thirty prisoners were so taken, and during the night which followed the Boers carried away another thirty killed and wounded--the wounded to Krugersdorp hospital. [5]
- Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
- Preparations for departure were secretly made in the painter's rooms in the Alcazar during the afternoon. [10]
- Clemens and Webster were often at the house of General Grant during these early days of 1885, and it must have been Webster who was present with Clemens on the great occasion described in the following telegram. [5]
- Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
- The Constitutional amendments were introduced before and passed after the act enforcing the Ordinance of '87; so that, during the whole pendency of the act to enforce the Ordinance, the Constitutional amendments were also pending. [7]
- Ludo and I went to school, and when it was over the many joyful faces in the street confirmed what we had heard during the school hours. [10]
- The school never went on more smoothly than during the first period of his administration, after he had arranged its duties, and taken his share, and even more than his share, upon himself. [6]
- All of this went on at frequent intervals during the winter, and while I was organizing the Elkington Power and Traction Company for George I found time to dine and sup at Maude's house, and to take walks with her. [9]
- He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
- I knew him well during several years afterward in San Francisco. [5]
- They did not weep or shudder and during these last days they themselves felt that they were not attending on him (he was no longer there, he had left them) but on what reminded them most closely of him--his body. [2]
- During the ensuing weeks, Senora Petra prepared Coello many bad days and still worse nights; but the painter persisted in his resolution to give Isabella to Ulrich, if in a year and a half he returned from Italy a skilful artist. [10]
- They stayed four weeks, and during that time one of the crazy men died. [11]
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