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Example sentences for "for the second time"

  • Had she defeated her own object, and cut the ground from under Sir Patrick's feet, for the second time?

  • Eager to make Sir Patrick his innocent accomplice on the spot, he made a second attempt to leave the library; and made it for the second time in vain.

  • Anne opened the letter, and looked at it for the second time.

  • For the second time he had robbed me of my own property, and had turned it into money to be spent in drink.

  • For the second time in my life I thanked Heaven for that brave and loyal English heart.

  • For the second time I begged her to be Lady Comyn.

  • Thus, for the second time, the weapon of the renowned master of Strawberry was knocked from his hand at a single stroke of his strange adversary.

  • I do not know," replied Osman, for the second time.

  • For the second time it resounds, louder and more piercing than before.

  • For the second time a loud report now resounded throughout the cave.

  • For the second time, the agonized voice of love resounded through the cave.

  • When Doctor Wybrow left his house for the second time, he did not even attempt to conceal from himself that his sole object, in dining at the club, was to hear what the world said of the Countess Narona.

  • For the second time, she tried to interest herself in the guide-book--and once more she tried in vain.

  • For the second time, he was checked on the point of setting the machinery of the hiding-place in motion.

  • It was a quarter to eight before he left his house, for the second time, on his way to the Tiger's Head.

  • It was of the simplest kind, and it occupied but a small portion of the page; yet it presented to his eyes a hopelessly involved and intricate appearance when he now examined it for the second time.

  • As soon as the door of the room had closed, Mrs. Norbury abruptly addressed the doctor, interrupting him, for the second time, just as he was about to speak.

  • For the second time, Miss Emily, you have arrived at a sound conclusion.

  • For the second time, you have refused to be my wife; and you have done this, to use your own words, in mercy to Me.

  • As he took it up, the first lines caught his eye: he read the date at which the murder had been committed, for the second time.

  • For the second time in ten days he was carried home in a fainting condition to his terrified grandmother.

  • That day, for the second time in my life, I knew what pain was; that pain has steadily increased until this moment, when I speak with you for the last time.

  • For the second time in three minutes he glanced anxiously at his wrist and then thrust his hand impatiently into a pocket.

  • Two days later Anthony visited Patch for the second time.

  • I have been reading "Prince Vitale" for the second time, and have been lost in admiration of it.

  • Althotas then cried out, for the second time: 'Hasten, Frederick William needs you sorely.

  • She cried out with delight, when, after they had translated the passage for the second time, she succeeded in comprehending its meaning, and could render whole sentences and periods in her own language.

  • While reading it for the second time, the poet laughed derisively.

  • For the second time he approached the corpse.

  • My whole being still thrilled with the mingled awe and rapture of beholding the Vision of her that had come to me for the second time.

  • For the second time I stood in the presence of the apparition of Mrs. Van Brandt.

  • They announced that the writer had escaped me for the second time: early that morning she had left Edinburgh.

  • For the second time he crashed into a form, and won by.

  • For the second time, Hunchback Joe's eyes had ceased to blink.

  • For the second time, as she stepped hurriedly back into the room with me, I was conscious of the satin-like smoothness of her skin, the baby-like whiteness of her rounded bare arms.

  • For the second time I turned and sauntered slowly toward Sixth Avenue.

  • He found occasion to remark, for the second time, that he had come straight back home after the concert at Queen's Hall.

  • She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time.

  • After the interlude of elephants dancing, they returned and made the observation for the second time.

  • She felt herself at one with her future home, colouring it and coloured by it, and awoke to see, for the second time, Oniton Castle conquering the morning mists.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the second time" 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:
    for although; for not; for once; for the common benefit; for the following reasons; for the greatest part; for the last three; for the reason that; for the second time; for they were not; for those; for thy; force against; force their; forced labor; foreign affairs; foreign court; foreign grain; foreign troops; forgive thee; form boys; form part; formal logic; former occasion; formerly known; forming drugs