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Example sentences for "our days"

  • To the Moslems of our days, as to the ancient Jews, it appears to be a necessary corollary of any lofty and spiritual conception of the divine.

  • No doubt any one who is well acquainted with Greek types and with the forms of modern athletes will observe that the Greek physical build is not identical with that of our days.

  • Like it, the moon has the pleasing alternations of day and night, though the day in the moon is as long as twenty-nine of our days, and the night of the moon is as long as twenty-nine of our nights.

  • At the present time the month is about twenty-seven of our days, and this relation has remained sensibly true for thousands of years past.

  • The length of this great day would seem to be about equal to fifty-seven of our days.

  • Titus, then, and Nero again in our days, both at Corinth, and both alike at the celebration of the Isthmian games, permitted the Greeks to enjoy their own laws and liberty.

  • It is the Life of Robert Price, a Welsh lawyer, and an ancestor of the gentleman whose ingenuity, in our days, has refined the principles of the Picturesque in Art.

  • It is curious to observe that the Westminster elections, in the fourth year of Charles's reign, were exactly of the same turbulent character as those which we witness in our days.

  • Do persons, then, actually travel with borrowed names, in our days?

  • I look upon this matter as no more than a sudden squall, that has compelled us to bear up for a little while, but which will answer for a winch to spin yarns on all the rest of our days.

  • Repertories are executed, in our days, by collaborators in association (who are sometimes of different nationalities and write in different languages).

  • No sight so sad has come upon the earth in our days.

  • Let us look at the list of names with which Boston has honored itself in our days, and then ask what other town of the same size has done more.

  • How differently we treat these discoveries in our days!

  • Many institutions and customs still flourishing in our days are of classical origin, and were adopted, or tolerated, because they were not in opposition to Christian principles.

  • The well-known effigy of that goddess with the infant Horus in her arms, has descended to our days in the beautiful, artistic creations of the Madonna and child.

  • In our days of learning, I saw Georg once--just once--thoroughly angered.

  • Yet I shall not describe it, nor our preparations, our days of activity--but hasten on to the first of the extraordinary incidents impending.

  • We spent most of our days in it, flying back at nightfall to Maida's palace.

  • His little tract, entitled the Vindication of Natural Society is certainly not without merit; but it would not be remembered in our days if it did not bear the name of Burke.

  • May it be His will to build it speedily in our days.

  • The day of his espousals, this is the gift of the Law; and in the day of the gladness of his heart, this is the building of the Sanctuary, and may it be speedily built in our days.

  • Thy city may speedily be rebuilt in our days, and let our portion be in Thy law.

  • The species of the later tertiary period for the most part not only resembled those of our days--many of them so closely as to suggest an absolute continuity--but also occupied in general the same regions that their relatives occupy now.

  • Foreseeing, yet deprecating, the coming time of trouble, we still hoped that, with some repairs and makeshifts, the old views might last out our days.

  • The theological speculations and mystical reveries of the ancients have, even in our days, the making of the law in a great part of the philosophical world.

  • In examining closely the God which we see adored still in our days by the most civilized nations, we are compelled to acknowledge that He has evidently barbarous features.

  • A spirit of barbarity has come down to our days; it intrudes itself into the religions which are followed by the most civilized nations.

  • Say what you will, those Middle Ages that you call Dark had a glory of faith that never will be seen in our days of cotton-mills and Manchester prints.

  • The amount of fancy work done in our days by girls who have nothing else to do will not equal what was done by these, who performed besides, among them, the whole work of the family.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our days" 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:
    other colleges; our best; our cause; our city; our course; our day; our days; our ears; our enemies; our era; our fathers; our feet; our friends; our holy; our house; our knowledge; our left; our line; our national; our nature; our old; our race; our senses; our society; our times; our young