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Example sentences for "six weeks"

  • In that way the journey is much shortened, and they can go to Buenos Ayres in six weeks.

  • In the course of six weeks, she sold all her cargo, got in a supply of provisions, and left the coast without interruption, as by this time Martinet's squadron had left the coast.

  • They undid in a few hours what they had been six weeks about, and retired, leaving Alla ad Deen alone in the hall.

  • But all my remonstrances were ineffectual: she was so afflicted to see me have but one hand, that she sickened, and died after five or six weeks' illness.

  • We talk of adjourning, soon for a month or six weeks, to give the Secret Committee time to proceed, which yet they have not done.

  • At all events, I shall certainly not stay there above a month or six weeks: it thickens too fast for something important not to happen by that time.

  • I came to town but last week; but on looking over the dates of my letters, I find I am six weeks in arrear to you.

  • Indeed, that was quite right, too; but Emil had not said that because it was true, but only to avoid the danger of having to see her more than once in six weeks.

  • I have an engagement which takes me into Vienna only once every four or six weeks .

  • I was immediately taken ill, and confined to my chamber for upwards of six weeks.

  • A month or six weeks of it puts me in fine shape for a vacation later on," supplied Mr. Barnes whimsically.

  • I dare say I can return the money to you in a month or six weeks.

  • To this letter the commissioner answered that, from the last accounts, he thought that in the course of six weeks or two months they might receive supplies from England, but that sooner than that was impossible.

  • He was worked all day, and kept watch all night for six weeks, and one morning he was found dead upon his chest.

  • We shall not begin to print before the end of six weeks, perhaps not so soon.

  • From this place we are going to Rouen, and from Rouen to Paris, where Mr. Thrale designs to stay about five or six weeks.

  • He begins and finishes in six weeks a work that was for ever to eclipse the translation of Pope, whom he does not even deign to mention in his preface; but this joke was still more unsuccessful [than his History of Britain].

  • I, who passed for a man of enlarged views, have been acting for the last six weeks.

  • There is my occurrence-sheet; you see to what are reduced all the members of this family, who, six weeks ago, had each elements of strength and union!

  • They spent a honeymoon of six weeks at a place he had in Scotland, and the first blow came upon him as they passed through London, back from Scotland, on their way to Italy.

  • You'll have every penny of it back in six weeks," said Mrs. Carbuncle, upon whose face a glow of anger was settling down.

  • Frank, some month or six weeks since, in a moment of soft confidence, had told his friend of his engagement with Lucy Morris.

  • All were promptly killed or taken except Nat who secreted himself near his late master's home until his capture was accomplished six weeks afterward.

  • Corn planted in April would furnish roasting ears in three months and ripe grain in six weeks more.

  • Next spring the cavalcade crossed the five hundred miles of wilderness in six weeks, and reached the log cabin village of Tuscaloosa, where Gideon built a house.

  • It will take place, I think, in six weeks.

  • When she returned there, one evening at midnight, six weeks later, having during the day become Mme.

  • Six weeks after I departed, he, his wife, and man-servant died of the plague.

  • Scott having some occasions into Staffordshire, addressed himself for a month or six weeks to Hodges, assisted him to dress his patients, let blood, &c.

  • Prideau despairing of his life; but I said there was no danger thereof, and that he would be sufficiently well in five or six weeks; and so he was.

  • In six weeks time, and tarrying with him three days in a week, he became a most judicious person.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "six weeks" 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:
    colored woman; each hour; great rejoicing; lucky thing; national power; other little; pate tendre; poor white; rose from the table; six feet; six hours; six hundred; six months; sixteen feet; sixteen inches; sixteen miles; sixteen shillings; sixth century; sixth dynasty; sixth year; sixty dollars; sixty guns; sixty miles; sixty millions; sixty thousand; sixty yards