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Example sentences for "the days"

  • Back again--back to the days of doubt and dread, when the spirit within me struggled hard for its life, in the icy stillness of perpetual suspense.

  • The days passed on, the weeks passed on, and the track of the golden autumn wound its bright way visibly through the green summer of the trees.

  • The days passed, the weeks passed; it was approaching the third month of my stay in Cumberland.

  • I am writing these lines in the solitude of my own room, long after midnight, having just come back from a stolen look at Laura in her pretty little white bed--the bed she has occupied since the days of her girlhood.

  • Always by your side as in the days when we both were young: as in the time when we both went with arms in our hands.

  • Not the desire of her as in the days when he used to smile .

  • The days of bitter wonder had killed anger; had left only a bitter indignation and a bitter wish for complete justice.

  • Why were you angry with me when I spoke at first of Tuan Abdulla, in the days when we lived beside the brook?

  • She was thinking of him; of the days by the brook; she was thinking of all that had been their love--and she sat in the abandoned posture of those who sit weeping by the dead, of those who watch and mourn over a corpse.

  • The usual designation of the days of the week.

  • The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished.

  • The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

  • But the people were not led away as in the days of Gottschalk.

  • The popular phrensy seemed on the point of breaking out as in the days of yore.

  • The witchcraft of Lady Hatton, the wife of the famous Sir Christopher, so renowned for his elegant dancing in the days of Elizabeth, is as devoutly believed as the Gospels.

  • In fact, if that convenient vehicle had existed in the days of the Seven Sages, one of them would doubtless have remarked, that you can know little of women by following them about in their pony-phaetons.

  • Fred used to be much more easy about his own accomplishments in the days when he had not begun to dread being "bowled out by Farebrother," and this terror was still before him.

  • Yea, will not this town, when she sees herself utterly forsaken of her Prince, of her own accord open her gates again unto you, and make of you as in the days of old?

  • Then was Mansoul called upon to behold the beginning of Emmanuel's triumph over him in whom they so much had trusted, and of whom they so much had boasted in the days when he flattered them.

  • Now there was an honest poor man in Mansoul, and his name was Mr. Meditation, one of no great account in the days of apostasy, but now of repute with the best of the town.

  • It is worthy of remark that most distinguished women since the days of Sappho and Semiramis have been impure, while not a few great men have been remarkable for their continency.

  • You may caress me as in the days of old, and I will answer with a curse.

  • He has made some little progress since the days of Judah and Tamar, David and Bathsheba.

  • In the days of the ancient Chaldeans it was for those of royal birth especially that divinations relative to extra digits were cast.

  • Their name in the language of the mountain Mexicans means foot-runners; and there is little doubt that they perform athletic feats which equal the best in the days of the Olympian games.

  • One of the days of this most interesting and memorable week was devoted to accompanying Mr. Maudslay in a visit to Somerset House.

  • When I went down into the engine-room I felt myself in a sense at home; for the style of the engines brought to my mind many a pleasant remembrance of the days gone by.

  • In the days I refer to, there was always a most cheerful and intimate intercourse kept up between the children and the servants.

  • I am with you to the end of the days I have determined on you.

  • This book is a written history of what happened in the days of Adam and Eve after they were cast out of the garden.

  • Yes, rather, bear long and calm your soul while you live night and day; until the fulfillment of the days, and the time of My covenant is come.

  • May the days to come be as rich in blessing As the days we spent in the auld lang syne.

  • As the days went by in country monotony, he began to feel it as a privilege rather than a burden to have the exclusive care of her.

  • The days passed, and the winter began merging imperceptibly into the Northland spring that comes like a thunderbolt of suddenness.

  • He was recalled to one of the dreams of his youth, to his conception of the Ponderevo Patent Flat that had been in his mind so early as the days before I went to serve him at Wimblehurst.

  • The days slipped by and my anger gathered.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the 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:
    compare the; the dry; the ground; the man; the second; the sons; the wilderness; then applied; then began; then call; then gave; then give; then might; then quickly; then season; then started; then that; then thou; then turn; then would; thence will; these birds; these countries; these were; walnut tree; went right