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Example sentences for "one night"

  • One night a rain storm wet it through and ruined it.

  • A soldier tells the following story of an attempt upon the life of Mr. Lincoln "One night I was doing sentinel duty at the entrance to the Soldiers' Home.

  • One night, about eleven o'clock, Colonel A.

  • From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night.

  • One night we went to the celebrated Jardin Mabille, but only staid a little while.

  • I got lost in Florence at nine o'clock, one night, and staid lost in that labyrinth of narrow streets and long rows of vast buildings that look all alike, until toward three o'clock in the morning.

  • One night, in Havana, a young shipmate of his was brought aboard drunk, with a dangerous gash in his head, and his money and new clothes stripped from him.

  • One night he was insolent to an officer on the beach, and refused to come aboard in the boat.

  • One night it seemed to him necessary that a child should go at once into the Infirmary.

  • I remember how shocked my poor father was when he found me one night at the bedroom window reading Sir Walter Scott by the light of the moon.

  • One night in a state of intoxication he walked over a gangway and was drowned.

  • One night, a week or two after my partial recovery, I had wandered on and on for hour after hour.

  • One night, and I've made five hundred roubles!

  • One night he came to sleep in the dosshouse, and had remained ever since among these men, much to their astonishment.

  • One night when we were asleep, and the captain was on guard, the lancer's wife was lying more quietly in her corner than usual, and she had even smiled for the first time since she had been our prisoner during the evening.

  • Finally, one night he stole into the pigpen of the Chateau d'Arville and ate the two fattest pigs.

  • One night, when it was darker than usual, and he was hurrying lest he should be later than the time agreed on, he knocked up against a piece of furniture in the anteroom and upset it.

  • At last, one night, when every one in the farmhouse was asleep, she went out noiselessly in her petticoat, with bare feet, crossed the yard and opened the door of the stable where Jacques was lying in a large box of straw above his horses.

  • One night he followed them, having heard the name of the village to which the men were going, and having learned the few words of German which he needed for his plan through associating with the soldiers.

  • The last advance was seventy,' said the dwarf; 'and it went in one night.

  • One night, the third after Nelly's interview with Mrs Quilp, the old man, who had been weak and ill all day, said he should not leave home.

  • That is a house, sir, built yn yr hen dull in the old fashion, of earth, flags and wattles and in one night.

  • It was the custom of old when a house was to be built, for the people to assemble, and to build it in one night of common materials, close at hand.

  • One night as I was wandering slowly along the path leading through the groves of Pen y Coed I was startled by an unearthly cry—it was the shout of the dylluan or owl, as it flitted over the tops of the trees on its nocturnal business.

  • One night, at last, as I was passing before his door, I saw him in the garden, seated astride a chair, smoking his pipe.

  • One night, about three months after the crime, I had a terrible nightmare.

  • One night I woke up suddenly, feeling as though I were not alone in my room.

  • But at last, one night, I let it run down.

  • Well, one night we had a big sojer ball; de sojers dah at Newbern was always havin' balls an' carryin' on.

  • One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof.

  • Jacob struggled with the angel but one night.

  • And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

  • With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

  • Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.

  • One night, when he was chaffing her in this way, she flung her sewing suddenly from her and sprang to her feet, as if she were going to give way to a burst of girlish temper.

  • One night in the early dusk, he saw Catherine Ford hastening across the prairie with Bill Deems.

  • One night I'd go t' bed with my heart goin' like a race-horse.

  • One night, after they had been walking for many hours and were very tired, they came to a large lake with an island in the middle of it.

  • It was at this moment of his blackest misery that, one night, a dragon who had long watched him from the roof crept to his side.

  • One night in the spring, when the ice had melted, and the snow was gone, the sisters sat spinning in the house, awaiting their husbands' return.

  • One night, when all the town slept, he felt beneath her pillow and, finding the Mirror, he stole it and fled back with it to Rei, the chief of the white men.

  • Thus it was that Digby lost ten lambs in one night.

  • One night late in last November, two Perico shepherds were aroused by an onset of wolves.

  • One night in November, 1893, Blanca and the yellow wolf killed two hundred and fifty sheep, apparently for the fun of it, and did not eat an ounce of their flesh.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one night" 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:
    fourth year; one case; one end; one foot; one great; one had; one hour; one hundred; one hundred and twenty; one hundred thousand francs; one hundred thousand pounds; one knew; one must; one night; one night; one part; one person; one point; one side; one that; one thing; one which; one whom; one with; rose again from the; sweet friend