Use months in a sentence
Sentences starting with months
- Months after this was written, I happened into the National Gallery in London, and soon became so fascinated with the Turner pictures that I could hardly get away from the place. [5]
- Months and months these creatures will live and seem to thrive well enough, as any showman who has then in his menagerie will testify, though they never touch anything to eat or drink. [6]
- Months went by; the bloom forsook his cheek, the fire faded out of his eye; sighings and abstraction usurped the place of smiles and cheerful converse. [5]
- Months ago you put your property out of your hands, boasting that you did so to escape losing it on prosecution for libel. [5]
- Months glided by, maturing Ulrich's mind as rapidly as if they had been years; but his inclination to retire within himself deepened into intense reserve. [10]
- Months ago I had put away one last pipeful of tobacco, to save it till some day when I should need it most. [11]
- Months went by before I could find what I wanted. [11]
- Months passed. [9]
Sentences ending with months
- An' we have--what you've lived through these last months. [13]
- I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
- Thus, after seven years of vicissitudes, ended a "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada which had originally been intended to occupy only three months. [5]
- I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
- We're going to work night and day for a couple of months. [11]
- He had been without a penny for two months. [5]
- I was born with a full crop of hair, he was as bald as an egg for six months. [5]
- He was asked why he had 'tarried away so many months. [5]
- A fringe of white had grown about his temples in the last two months. [11]
- The time stipulated was three months. [5]
Short sentences using months
- And the months went by. [11]
- First time in three months. [9]
- Why falter all these months? [11]
- Nothing happened for several months. [9]
- Like months it seemed. [11]
- Be gone two months. [5]
- Thus five long months passed. [10]
- Both died some months ago. [5]
- That was nine months ago. [11]
- We'd been prospecting for months. [11]
Sentences containing months two or more times
- Now take these two pantographs of B's autograph, marked five months and seven months. [5]
- That is the thing that has hurt--hurt so all these months, these long hard months, when I could not see you, and did not know why I could not. [11]
- For four months the Khedive was never told the truth save by European financiers, when truths were obvious facts; for four long months never saw a fearless or an honest eye in his own household. [11]
- She must know that this was not an affair of the moment, but that there was condensed in it all the constant devotion of months and months. [4]
- It is said that the Margravine would give herself up to debauchery and exceedingly fast living for several months at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time. [5]
- In no months since he had left the theological seminary, had he seemingly accomplished so little; in no months had he had so magnificent an opportunity. [9]
- For months and months he had thought of this meeting and pictured it to himself a hundred times, but he had never imagined it would be like this. [5]
- Then, when she lost her dearly-beloved husband, a few months after their golden wedding day, all was at an end for her; the brave old woman gave up all care for life, and died no more than three months after him. [10]
- I never really intended to take the place, anyway--I made up my mind to it months and months ago, nearly a year. [5]
- He had stayed his four months, and it was now six months, and he was going at last-tomorrow. [11]
More example sentences with the word months in them
- Six months ago you were, apparently, one of the most orthodox rectors in the diocese. [9]
- This means that you have not six months to live. [5]
- Didn't you say you had six months to raise the money in? [5]
- Six months ago you had a prisoner here, captured on the New England border. [11]
- And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
- It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
- She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
- 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]
- Two months ahead would be still better I suppose, but I don't know. [5]
- I'll know the worst or the best of it before three months are out. [11]
- What an unreal world it all was, that of a few months ago! [4]
- Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
- As the days wore into months, Monsieur Vigo's place very naturally became the headquarters for our army, if army it might be called. [9]
- And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
- He carried home with him a certain disquiet, to which he had been for months a stranger. [4]
- Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
- He deceived her with a mock marriage; after some months he brutally, abandoned her, and spurned her as if she were a contemptible thing; all the time he had a wife in New Orleans. [5]
- 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]
- 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]
- Six months later William Rufus Holly, a deacon in holy orders, journeyed to Athabasca in the Far North. [11]
- I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
- Perhaps three months will "let us out. [5]
- Dear, faithful reader, whose patient eyes have followed my reports through these long months, you and I are about parting company. [6]
- But on the whole there was a certain exhilaration in the preparation and the going, and her spirits rose as they had not done in months before. [4]
- Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
- Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
- The five hundred who during the next three months are to register the laws find quarters as best they can. [9]
- The young people who come into Paris from the provinces are very apt--so I have been told by one that knows--to have an attack of typhoid fever a few weeks or months after their arrival. [6]
- The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
- The hanging-scaffold, on which he had lain for months, working on the master's pictures, had been removed, but there was still something to be done to the walls. [10]
- It was midnight when we made the successful test, after eight months of experiment. [9]
- But you see when people have been getting ready for months in a quiet way to get married, they are bound to grow stingy, and go to saving up money against that awful day when it is sure to be needed. [5]
- Still another explanation when husbands and sons and brothers come back across the Channel for a few days' leave after long months in the trenches, nothing is too good for them. [9]
- There were times when for months you forgot me; and then--then--" Suddenly a dreadful suspicion seized his brain. [11]
- Redoubts and towers were within musket-shot of each other, with watch-houses between, and at intervals every able-bodied man in the country was obliged to leave his trade to act as sentinel, or go into camp or barracks with the militia for months at a time. [11]
- But six months were to intervene before the beginning of my duties--how to fill that time profitably was the question. [11]
- These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
- As the months went by, everything prospered with him on his drifting voyage. [4]
- Full three months went by in this fashion, and then, one day, who should step into my dungeon, torch in hand, but Gabord! [11]
- As the months went by he came to be regarded as a wonderfully lucky man. [5]
- Again whole days, weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. [2]
- In a few weeks or months or years I shall be out of it, I hope under a monument. [5]
- Here's only three weeks of the three months gone, and it seems like three years. [5]
- Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
- Indeed, as days, weeks and months went on, his position became less valuable to himself, and his financial affairs suffered from his own and his agent's bad management. [11]
- He idled away weeks and months in indolent enjoyment in the country; he indulged his passion for the theater when opportunity offered; and he began to be weary of a society which offered little stimulus to his mind. [4]
- An' as the weeks an' months went by I growed into a strange sort of a man, I guess. [13]
- It would be we, instead of I, if Mrs. Clemens knew, but in all these 20 months that she has lain a prisoner in her bed we have hidden from her all things that could sadden her. [5]
- And to think we have been rooming together all these months and did not know that we were really--old friends. [9]
- The oldest he was years not six, And the youngest only eleven months old, But often she had left them there alone, As, by the neighbors, I have been told. [5]
- And when he was tried three months later for murder, some one else said this for him, and the hearts of all, judge and jury, were so moved they knew not what to do. [11]
- Because her plan was to raise the siege immediately, by fighting, while theirs was to besiege the besiegers and starve them out by closing their communications--a plan which would require months in the consummation. [5]
- Why, if he was so jealous, as I see things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. [2]
- They knew she was sick at heart, because she grew pale and silent; they did not know for some months how shamed she was. [11]
- Three months it was from the day Biatt first spoke to me to the day when, with an expert diver, we brought the box to the surface and opened it. [11]
- Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
- In May the wanderer was in Paris, and remained there four months, studying French and frequenting the theaters with exemplary regularity. [4]
- He met her walking among the trees, very near the place where they had had their first long talk, months before, when Jethro Fawe was a prisoner in the Hut in the Woods. [11]
- I have been waiting your coming these months. [9]
- After the great victory gained by Count Egmont against the military forces of France, eleven months after the battle of St. Quentin, there was enough to be seen in Brussels. [10]
- She had a vague sense of trouble, and she feared it might be the little cross, that haunting thing of all these months. [11]
- Perhaps most, of us, will agree that our faith in domestic prophets has been diminished by the experience of the last six months. [6]
- It might delay us months, but no matter, I would carry it out or break something. [5]
- He had laid up his yacht and joined the Red Cross and, henceforth, for an indeterminable period, he was to abide amidst the discomforts and dangers of the Western Front, with five days' leave every three months. [9]
- Not always and unvaryingly, but about one hundred and forty-three months out of twelve years, perhaps. [5]
- There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
- He watched her until she entered a shop, on the signboard of which was written--written since he had left a few months ago--Lucy Rives, Tobacconist. [11]
- I could never understand why a people who have been grumbling about snow and frost for six months, and longing for genial weather, should flee from it as soon as it comes. [4]
- Most species, which undergo a double moult, keep their ornamental feathers for about six months. [1]
- Last, and absolutely unassailable proof, the sutures in my skull closed six months ahead of his. [5]
- Her spirits had unaccountably fallen, the sense of homelessness that had pursued her all these months overtaken her once more. [9]
- Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
- Yet I have two reasons, which seem to me good and valid ones, for giving some particulars of the course of events which led to her few months of wedded life--that short spell of exceeding happiness. [14]
- If you stay two or three months or longer, you cut it down half, or even more than half. [5]
- But now for two months, she had had rheumatism in her arms, and was obliged to let the washtub alone. [5]
- For the last two months we have been in a worry about one portion of this Holy Land pilgrimage. [5]
- In less than two months that indomitable leader was lying dead beside Wilson's Creek, among the oaks on Bloody Hill. [9]
- For a letter two months old, it did marvels; if it had been a year old it would have done miracles. [5]
- During the last two months my next-door neighbor, Chas. [5]
- For more than two months Cauchon had been raking and scraping everywhere for any odds and ends of evidence or suspicion or conjecture that might be usable against Joan, and carefully suppressing all evidence that came to hand in her favor. [5]
- It was about two months before this particular morning that he came, greeting me courteously enough. [11]
- He got it two months before he flew. [5]
- He came here two months ago to be the President of this Fifth Street car line. [9]
- There are only two million of them, anyway, and all of five months to finish the contract in. [5]
- A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
- A man grows twelve and a woman thirty-six months older every year. [10]
- Now, it is true, grave duties must have summoned the statesman back to Rome, but he tarried three full months longer. [10]
- I took the trouble to write some months ago to two friends in Paris, in whom I could place confidence, for information upon the subject. [3]
- When one is traveling in Europe, the daily incidents seem all alike; but when he has placed them all two months and two thousand miles behind him, those that were worthy of being remembered are prominent, and those that were really insignificant have vanished. [5]
- As Fleda came towards him, under the same trees which had shielded her from the sun months ago--now nearly naked and bare--something in her look and bearing sharply caught his interest. [11]
- I have been tormented with it beyond endurance for months by both sides. [7]
- This had been too daring an experiment with one of her nature, which had within the last few months become as strangely, insistently, even fanatically honest, as it had been elusive in the past. [11]
- The day after to-morrow my ship is going to Portsmouth for two months. [11]
- Yet, as Sergeant Tom often asked himself during the past six months, why should he think of her? [11]
- The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. [5]
- Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
- It seems strange to write of a few weeks before as the past; but so much had occurred that the days might easily have been months and the weeks years. [11]
- Jo turned quickly to the wall, and taking it by its cord from the nail where it had been for these long months, handed it over. [11]
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