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Example sentences for "the day"

  • The special programmes of news and features originate in the broadcasting headquarters in Athens and go on the air throughout the 24 hours of the day in Greek, English and many foreign languages.

  • Most important of all, in the long run, it assured that no armed force in occupied Greece would gain a monopoly of power on the day of liberation.

  • The King said he was planning to marry her off to Achilles, the most eligible bachelor of the day.

  • Thus, therefore, he now went on bewailing his sinful sleep, saying, O wretched man that I am that I should sleep in the day-time!

  • But the night was as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears.

  • These questions, debated by the most learned pens of the day, strongly engrossed the public attention.

  • The day, or rather (for the expression is not correct) the lapse of twelve hours, which forms a day upon the earth, closed with a plentiful supper carefully prepared.

  • It was already clear to be seen that, on the day of the experiment itself, the aggregate of spectators would be counted by millions; for they were already arriving from all parts of the earth upon this narrow strip of promontory.

  • For this is the day we are to conquer His Majesty the Scarecrow, and wrest from him the throne.

  • As it was yet too early in the day to expect the old woman to return home, Tip went down into the valley below the farm-house and began to gather nuts from the trees that grew there.

  • And it's time you had a treat, Audrey; you mustn't be a housekeeper every hour of the day; and I know you want to hear the music.

  • Neither was what was commonly called the stage door; they were a sort of special and private stage doors used by very special performers, and in this case by the star actor and actress in the Shakespearean performance of the day.

  • They will not meet on the Day of Judgement," said the priest.

  • As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking things down with my quaking hands, I wished the sun would rise in the middle of the day, when it was warm and bright and cheerful, and one wasn't sleepy.

  • Come, now, and make thee ready for the pleasures of the day.

  • So this German attends only the lectures which belong to the chosen branch, and drinks his beer and tows his dog around and has a general good time the rest of the day.

  • Next morning we walked to Rosenlaui, the BEAU IDÉAL of Swiss scenery, where we spent the middle of the day in an excursion to the glacier.

  • I am sure you always thought me unfit for the office I held.

  • I wanted the opinion of some one who could really judge.

  • She must have found the evening agreeable, Mr. Knightley, because she had Emma.

  • There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness almost before it was possible.

  • She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school.

  • Yes; but we must not rest our claims on that distinction.

  • As to men and women, our opinions are sometimes very different; but with regard to these children, I observe we never disagree.

  • I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

  • The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

  • It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!

  • I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?

  • It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.

  • Emma remained very well pleased with this beginning of the acquaintance, and could now engage to think of them all at Randalls any hour of the day, with full confidence in their comfort.

  • To the evening assemblages, made up for the larger part of outsiders, he addressed broadly liberal sermons, literary in form, and full of respectful allusions to modern science and the philosophy of the day.

  • I saw the great change, all of a sudden, the day of the picnic.

  • It had seemed almost as bony and cadaverous on the day of the picnic.

  • The wheelwright fell off his stool, the others grabbed the table to save themselves, and there was a deep and general ejaculation of: "God be with us in the day of disaster!

  • Up to the day set, there was no talk in all Britain of anything but this combat.

  • Everybody had shunned that locality from the day of my proclamation, but on the morning of the fourteenth I thought best to warn the people, through the heralds, to keep clear away--a quarter of a mile away.

  • And where will they be the day after to-morrow at vespers?

  • But when the first light whitened the window, the words of the Scripture came into her mind: "And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

  • It blotted out the tender beauty of the day, and weighed down their hearts ever more heavily within them.

  • He is of medium height, and fills an average arm-chair with a solid bulk, which on the day of our interview was unpretentiously clad in a business suit of blue serge.

  • Penelope was the girl whose odd serious face had struck Bartley Hubbard in the photograph of the family group Lapham showed him on the day of the interview.

  • The day of small things was past, and I don't suppose it will ever come again in this country.

  • A bit of her naked arm is visible between the buff leather of the gauntlet and the sleeve of her gown; and as the day wears on its feminine smoothness becomes scarified by the stubble and bleeds.

  • The gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day's close, though the degree of their shade may be the same.

  • They coughed as they danced, and laughed as they coughed.

  • She is not going at present--say for a year or so.

  • It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger's retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and answered her would-be partner in the affirmative.

  • Nobody had made any acknowledgment of Mr. Carton's part in the day's proceedings; nobody had known of it.

  • The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, assisted him in the strait of the day.

  • The summer light struck into the corner brilliantly in the earlier part of the day; but, when the streets grew hot, the corner was in shadow, though not in shadow so remote but that you could see beyond it into a glare of brightness.

  • Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his being there with this Double of coarse deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all.

  • Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.

  • He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind within, a profound tranquillity without.

  • The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.

  • When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the day" 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:
    depart from; forbid them; the book; the expiration; the legislatures; the open; the voice; the whole; then brought; then called; then found; then governor; then indeed; then inquired; then might; then pour; then ready; then ready for use; then started; then strain; then take out the; there never; there seemed; there seems; these two; town yesterday