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Example sentences for "month"

Lexicographically close words:
montaria; montem; monter; montera; montes; monthe; monthes; monthlies; monthly; months
  1. He has asked Gerard and me and the Manton to spend a month with him in England when we go abroad.

  2. The repair bills came to a good deal of money, and the eighteen dollars a month we paid at the garage was the least of the total.

  3. Jasper Penny saw, objectively, not so much the surrounding circumstance as his own former acts and emotions; detached from his habitual being by hardly more than a month his past was posed before his critical judgment.

  4. Hardly a month passed but that, announced by telegram, she did not appear and stay over night, or for a part of the week.

  5. Even the iron was a heavy load; the necessity of constantly meeting new conditions with new processes, of uprooting month by month most with which the years had made him familiar, seemed beyond his power.

  6. There are twa hens into the crib, Hae fed this month and mair; Mak haste and thraw their necks about, That Colin weel may fare.

  7. And here a simile comes pat in: Though chickens take a month to fatten, The guests in less than half an hour Will more than half a score devour.

  8. Now death as welcome to me comes As e'er the month of May; Nor would I even wish to live, With my dear wife to stay.

  9. A Perpetual Almanac showing the days of the Month Weekly and the Equation of time.

  10. I slept one night on deck, without even an awning of canvass over me,--how pleasant it was at night to awake and see the winter constellation of Orion as high up already in September, as I was wont to see it in America in the month of January!

  11. They had finished their tour of Germany and returned in time to spent the great day of the month at Versailles.

  12. Avalanches slide down into the valleys every month of the year, and I passed through tunnels and bridges that are purposely constructed that the snow may thus slide over the roads without doing harm to any one.

  13. This violent exercise of his vooal organs, he sometimes repeats several times every day for a month in succession, displaying powers of endurance which are perhaps not equaled by any other living orator.

  14. A Perpectual Almanac showing the day of the month on a semi-circular plate, the Index returning to the first day of the month on the close of each month, without alteration even in leap years, regulated only once in 130 years.

  15. It was not a question of a month or even a year.

  16. The time being the month of March the weather was cold, the judge was chilled, and unhappily the sermon was long, and the preacher tedious.

  17. Instead of one daric per month to each soldier, he agreed to give a daric and a half.

  18. It was the month of April, or beginning of May, and the festival had actually begun, under the presidency of the Corinthians from the city who were in alliance with Argos; a body of Argeians being present as guards.

  19. Euphrates and Tigris had passed over it without difficulty in the month of May.

  20. It was about six months afterwards, in the month of September or October of the same year, that the battle of Kunaxa was fought, in which, though the Greeks were victorious, Cyrus himself lost his life.

  21. The 4 epochs (quarters) of the month or of the year, and the holy sacrifice.

  22. Since my report of the 5th of this month I have continued the excavations most industriously with an average of 120 workmen.

  23. The 4 sacrifices of the month or of the year.

  24. But since the 6th of this month there have appeared not only many nails, but also knives, lances, and battle-axes of copper of such elegant workmanship that they can have been made only by a civilized people.

  25. The 4 quarters of the month or of the year, with the Holy Sacrifice.

  26. Two Antelopes, the halves of the month (quinzaines), round the circle of the year.

  27. Burnouf describes the animal to the right as a hare, the symbol of the Moon, and the other two as the antelopes, which denote the prevailing of the two halves of the month (quinzaines).

  28. Since my report of the 23rd of last month I have been excavating, with the consent of my honoured friend, Mr. Frank Calvert, on that half of the hill which belongs to him, on condition that I share with him the objects I may find.

  29. The 3 stations of the Sun, or 3 mountains, with the 4 sacrifices of the year or the month round the circle of the Sun.

  30. Well, I studied hard enough last month in college cramming for the final exams, so I could get within gunshot of enough sophomore credits, and I'm through; with study for a while.

  31. During that month the Indian guides, flanking squads, and woodchoppers had rushed into camp time and again calling the companies to arms; each alarm had been false.

  32. The best Thing they have is a wild Turky, but this is only in Season one Month in the Year; the rest it is hard, strong, and dry.

  33. In the face of many threats and dangers, I spent nearly a month in that city, in vain attempts to bring my cause to a trial.

  34. She is about one month younger than myself.

  35. The month is kept forced open, and the straining of the jaws at their utmost stretch, for a considerable time, is very distressing.

  36. I replied that I was in no haste, and might stay a month longer.

  37. The gag which was put into the month of the unfortunate Saint Francis, had been brought from a place where there were forty or fifty others, of different shapes and sizes.

  38. It was, perhaps, a month after the death of Saint Francis.

  39. Once a year a load of wines was deposited there and once a month a grocer's wagon paused outside.

  40. He says that Wu was killed over a month ago, that his head is on a temple gate five hundred miles north of here, and that the smoke over there is caused by burning brush on the hillsides.

  41. In one short month her father would return from the Continent.

  42. I shall know every stone of it before a month has passed.

  43. Philips declared that he would have him dancing before the month was done.

  44. I will play for a month for nothing," she had said.

  45. When a man is travelling a thousand miles from home, people don't get alarmed about him for a month or two.

  46. Not a month ago, Sir Francis Button told me that he could lock up half the great people in town, politicians included, by one turn of a little key in his safe.

  47. In a month or less I will return to tell you whether Georges Odin is alive or dead.

  48. In one month or six she'll be starring in my plays.

  49. And when that month was over Etta Romney would cease to be, and the stately Lady Evelyn must return.

  50. I remember that it was in the month of November in the year 1874.

  51. From which it is clear that the month of November found Gavin Ord still in Roumania and Count Odin again in Derbyshire.

  52. There was only desultory fighting during the month of March, and most of the wounds were from "snipers" or shrapnel.

  53. It was almost a month after Plantsfield's momentous announcement before the Canadians commenced arriving at our hospital.

  54. Little by little it got going, and in less than a month you might have heard it almost any bright afternoon, groaning in the garage preparatory to sallying forth upon its quest.

  55. And the Colonel replied: "This month you fell from the water waggon, and your head is queerer than before.

  56. Last month I fell from the boiler and my head has been queer ever since.

  57. The ordnance is discharged every year in the month of December, according to the order before mentioned.

  58. Written in our dominion in our town and in our palace in the Castle of Moscow, in the year seven thousand and sixty, the second month of February.

  59. The Monthly has been a great storehouse: not only did it give from month to month the happenings at the church, but it brought to later generations an appreciation of the goodly heritage of years that had gone before.

  60. The Memorials of his wife, which fill the greater part of the second volume, were written at Cheyne Row, during the month after her death.

  61. There was a dead whale came ashore there about a month ago; that would have been something like a feast for you.

  62. You may easily imagine that after spending a month at El Dorado I can desire to behold nothing upon earth but Miss Cunegonde.

  63. Their provisions were consumed; they fed a whole month upon wild fruits, and found themselves at last near a little river bordered with cocoa trees, which sustained their lives and their hopes.

  64. They spent a month in this hospitable place.

  65. A record of each field force for each day in each month was made on profile paper, using the horizontal lines to represent the number of tracks, and the vertical lines to represent distance.

  66. Sooner or later during the month of August we see a shadowy circle form on each inhabited pea; but only one on each seed.

  67. Without other invitation on my part than this modest expenditure of seed-peas, it arrives punctually during the month of May.

  68. The doctors and nurses give him about a month and he doesn't know it.

  69. Now all she had for certain was something over three thousand pounds in bank notes that might turn out next month to be worthless paper.

  70. In vain Frances protested she was satisfied with it as it was; the month that she had hoped was to be given to leisure was one of the busiest of her husband's life.

  71. Mr. Draper's visits to Clyde had been hitherto confined to the Sabbath, and generally terminated with it: but he now wrote to his wife that he intended to "pass a month with her.

  72. But he was all the more anxious to return to Spain; and, within a month from his arrival at St. Domingo, he started homeward in the caravel which had brought him from Jamaica.

  73. Meanwhile, month after month passed by, and the unfortunate castaways at Santa Gloria had no tidings from Hispaniola, and were even ignorant whether their messengers had succeeded in reaching that island.

  74. The lands in the island of Trinidad he had previously compared to Valencia, in Spain, during the month of March.

  75. But he had hardly enjoyed more than a month of repose, when that evil came down upon him, which "poured the juice of aloes into the remaining portion of his life.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "month" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    month after; month ago; month before; month later; month past; month since; monthly journal; monthly parts