Use year in a sentence
Sentences starting with year
- Year and day--and without baggage. [5]
- Year after year they came down from their mountains and fought shoulder to shoulder, and year after year they carried back the lion's share of the spoils between them. [9]
- Year by year these accommodations will increase, new roads around the gorges will open more enchanting views, and it is not improbable that the species of American known as the "summer boarder" will have his highest development and apotheosis in these mountains. [4]
- Year by year his knowledge and power, his experience and reputation extended, and his mental faculties seemed to grow by what they fed on. [7]
- Year upon year he had built up his influence. [11]
- Year by year, and almost month by month, my life has kept pace in this century with his life in the last century. [6]
Sentences ending with year
- Have you lost your senses, to take a woman into Kentucky this year? [9]
- If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
- When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
- I left New York under a sort of half promise to furnish to the Harper magazines 30,000 words this year. [5]
- Did it last year? [5]
- Income, $120,000,000 a year. [5]
- There was another year. [11]
- Six pound a year! [12]
- I wish she would write 12 old-time New England tales a year. [5]
- The furniture is worth $10,000 or $12,000 and must not be jammed into any kind of a place and left unattended to for a year. [5]
Short sentences using year
- It is one year since. [11]
- That was a year ago. [11]
- That was the year 1812. [5]
- Yes, sirree, a whole year. [9]
- Sixty year, more or less! [6]
- She saw something last year. [2]
- What year was it? [5]
- It's lasted a hundud year. [6]
- It is agitated every year. [5]
- It seemed like a year. [9]
Sentences containing year two or more times
- What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
- What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
- There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
- In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
- I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
- These became from year to year more common; about five years ago he shot one, and afterwards another, and now they are frequently killed. [1]
- For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
- More times last year than the year before? [5]
- In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less that those of 1863. [7]
- I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
More example sentences with the word year in them
- I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
- I will fill your treasury every year with gold. [10]
- I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
- For a year your husband has sent nothing of importance. [10]
- It was the young hipparch who had studied in Athens and accompanied the commandant of Pelusium to Tennis the year before. [10]
- Values are artificial: you will not be able to get ten cents of the year 1799 for a dime. [6]
- I have referred you to the proper authorities for the account of those improvements which about the year 1830 rendered the compound microscope an efficient and trustworthy instrument. [3]
- It is as you say, dear old friend, "the pathos of it" yes, it was a piteous thing--as piteous a tragedy as any the year can furnish. [5]
- Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
- How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! [2]
- Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
- I heartily thank you for the good wishes you send me to open the year, and I say them back again to you. [6]
- Every year gives you a more reasoning and reasonable people to deal with. [3]
- For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. [5]
- A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
- Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
- Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
- And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
- For many a year, you know as well as I do, ships have been coming from France to Ireland with the very best wines and liquors, and taking back the very best wool- -smuggled, of course. [11]
- In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
- In the same year, for 'Macmillan's Magazine', I wrote 'Barbara Golding' and 'A Pagan of the South', which was originally published as 'The Woman in the Morgue'. [11]
- But not this year, and not next. [5]
- That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
- Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
- November 30th that year was Mark Twain's fiftieth birthday, an event noticed by the newspapers generally, and especially observed by many of his friends. [5]
- Well, then, what year was it? [5]
- I went a year to the high school, and then I was all for coming to the city--I couldn't stand Madison, there wasn't anything going on. [9]
- 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]
- I wanted this year to be by a lake. [6]
- Later in the year they have another crop, which they call the Garnet. [5]
- In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
- For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet--even satisfied, after a fashion. [5]
- In our senior year the higher classes competed for the Boylston prizes for English composition. [6]
- This very last year the fisherman Phabis killed with a hammer the Alexandrian clerk who had stolen into his house, and drowned his faithless wife. [10]
- In one little year the end will come. [5]
- The very next year the Council formally introduced the evil which they called ecclesiastical reformation. [10]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- More times this year than last? [5]
- It's many a year since this house was neighbourly to that. [11]
- 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]
- One author per year produces a book which can outlive the forty-two-year limit; that's all. [5]
- That was a year previous to the late Presidential election. [7]
- During the first year or, two after it happened, I could not bear to think of it. [5]
- For the first year or so he sees that they are just as much pupils of their Maker as the young of any other animals. [6]
- Idt wass a year or dwo pefore the war proke oudt, anyway. [8]
- More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
- In any other year of these 33 the relief would have been simple: go where you can cut your cloth to fit your income. [5]
- In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
- I grudge every year of absence that rolls by. [4]
- It's nearly a year now since you took me in. [9]
- 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]
- In his twenty-third year Mr. Clay was licensed to practise law, and emigrated to Lexington, Kentucky. [7]
- A month, a year might have elapsed. [9]
- And now, a year later, when I read the cablegrams I seem to be reading of what I myself partly saw--saw before it happened--in a prophetic dream, as it were. [5]
- It came this year just at the right moment, for here was a distinguished stranger visiting in the place. [6]
- It's many a year I've been a-dreamin', but now they're comin' over 'n' over the same thing. [6]
- In the following year Irving was again in England, visiting his sister in Birmingham, and tasting moderately the delights of London. [4]
- It was the year in which he entered fully into the publishing business and launched one of the most spectacular of all publishing adventures, The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant. [5]
- That was the year I moved up here, and my wife died. [9]
- For a whole year I have dissembled to every one save to that poor mad soul Mathilde, who reads my heart in her wild way, to Voban, and to the rough soldier outside your dungeon. [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]
- And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
- For during that year I first tasted the intoxicating pleasure of authorship. [3]
- But twice every year he went to yonder point and spoke out the King's words to him: 'John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York? [11]
- In his sixteenth year he went to a forester for instruction, but did not remain long. [10]
- For a whole year he was haunted with a desire to disfigure a certain young woman, so that no one would marry her. [5]
- The very next year he stood in the place of his father who fell at Ascalon, deeply lamented. [10]
- In the previous year he had made a journey to Arizona with Jowett, to see some railway construction there, and at a ranch he had visited he came upon some verses which had haunted his mind ever since. [11]
- And in the year he had learned a great deal about his art. [4]
- Only for one year had this paper been made, and then the trade in it was stopped. [11]
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
- More than a year had elapsed since the interview with Lord Clarendon, which had been the subject of criticism. [6]
- I sat every year for five years, trying to satisfy that insatiable organization. [5]
- Day by day, year by year, new readers are coming forward with curiosity and intellectual wants. [4]
- And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
- Thus in a year and a half, the Virginia office only shipped $5,330,000 in bullion. [5]
- I was a year and a half in London and Sweden, in the hands of that grand old man, Mr. Kildren. [5]
- It started thirty year ago, or som'ers along there. [5]
- A half a year ago I used to always be the last one; but I've been promoted. [5]
- And about a year ago I drew another one. [4]
- That was a year after you left, now about three years gone. [11]
- 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]
- It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
- By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
- Ain't $350,000 a year a pretty real----" "Stuff! [5]
- And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. [11]
- I believe I would relent before the year was up, and get them out if I could. [5]
- They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. [5]
- Finally, if I would lend him $500 a year for two years, (this was 4 or 5 years ago,) he knew he could make a success as a lawyer, and would prove it. [5]
- Every year some would die and others become incapacitated by age and infirmity; there would be no new ones to take their places. [5]
- It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
- For fear of worrying you I did not write you from Savannah how they laughed at us for starting at that season of the year. [9]
- His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
- He kept his word, found Shon M'Gann, and on an autumn day of a year not so long ago lounged in this hut on Clear Mountain. [11]
- Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not. [5]
- Where is the wonder the engineer Of the train she saved, in half a year Had wooed her and won her? [11]
- The clear-eyed young woman of the future, always dear and often an anxiety, will this year be an object of enthusiasm. [4]
- For did a woman ever live who would not give all the years of tasteless serenity, for one year, for one month, for one hour, of the uncalculating delirium of love poured out upon a man who returned it? [4]
- There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table. [5]
- 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]
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