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Example sentences for "during which"

  • The royal visitors remained for several weeks at the castle, during which it continued a scene of revelry, intermixed with the sports of the chase.

  • For a few minutes Surrey remained gazing at the figure in mute astonishment, during which it maintained the same motionless posture.

  • But the fright and suffering had been too much for her, and a succession of fainting-fits followed, during which I thought she would expire.

  • We remained in Marietta about six weeks, during which time I repeatedly rode to Kenesaw Mountain, and over the very ground where afterward, in 1864, we had some hard battles.

  • I remained at Lancaster all of August, 1858, during which time I was discussing with Mr. Ewing and others what to do next.

  • He spent some days in Monterey, during which time we extracted with difficulty some items of his personal history.

  • In a pause--during which no one exactly liked to ask what we were all thinking about--there came a little tap at the door, and a little voice outside.

  • And then some others appeared to recollect the Norton Bury Mercury, and its virulent attacks on their host--for there ensued an awkward pause, during which I saw Ursula's face beginning to burn.

  • We at once returned to the ship, having been absent only two hours, during which we had caught sufficient to provide all hands with three good meals.

  • Thus, we had now been afloat for well over a year, during which time, except for our foraging excursions at the Cocos and Aldabra, we had certainly known no liberty for a whole day.

  • Apparently only a few minutes elapsed, during which my eyes were becoming accustomed to the darkness.

  • Arnold Armstrong and Louise had a long conference, during which he was heard to storm and become very violent.

  • I have been here one week, during which I have had not a single night of uninterrupted sleep, and I intend to stay until I have recuperated.

  • The march through this inhospitable region lasted 60 days, during which numbers of the soldiers perished from fatigue or disease.

  • These scenes of horror lasted for seven days, during which death in every conceivable form was busily at work.

  • He was so glad to find this was the worst, that his lecture lasted for two miles and a half, during which Guy, though attentive at first, had ample space for all the thrills of recognition at each well-known spot.

  • This support sufficed to keep things going for another two years, during which time a full-sized vessel was built.

  • He was silent for a time, during which he was actively engaged in the formation of a magic circle round the chest on which he sat.

  • How I enjoyed that morning meal, during which I prattled at my ease, talking of my lessons, my exercises, and my schoolmates!

  • He was shut up in his room while a week passed, during which I did not see him.

  • The exceptional period of the interval was the only one during which my mother bestowed constant attention upon me.

  • Even my father had found it very difficult to get the better of those fits of wounded feeling, during which I strove against my own relentings with a cold and concentrated anger which both relieved and tortured me.

  • Then follows a period of fasting and very strict abstinence which must last for forty days, during which time he is to touch no woman whomsoever, not even his wife.

  • After a noontide pause for dinner, during which my Emigrants were nearly all between-decks, and the Amazon looked deserted, a general muster took place.

  • An affecting scene followed, during which I was handed about and poked at her by various people, as if I were the bottle of salts.

  • After that truly dramatic scene, during which I could guess that the denouement of the play was near at hand, I went to my charming countess, taking care to change my gondola three times--a necessary precaution to baffle spies.

  • An hour passed in the midst of happiness, during which we forgot the whole world.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "during which" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot read; come hame; dark complexion; dear governor; during good; during many; during pregnancy; during several; during sleep; during the greater part; during the last year; during the last years; during the latter part; during the past year; during the whole course; during their; during three; exposed situations; for they; full minute; great flood; great work; skim well; sotto voce; things that; tiers etat