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Example sentences for "the time"

  • The time is near, Miss Lockwood, when you will discover that for yourself.

  • Or, if you must think of the time that is passed, can you not look back to the time when I first loved you?

  • Those persons may yet see him in the time to come.

  • On the same day we proceeded to the palace inhabited by Lord Montbarry at the time of his last illness and death.

  • The time is past for Jonahs to take refuge in whales' bellies!

  • I say that, at the time I threw myself into the sea, I heard the men at the wheel say, `The screw and the rudder are broken.

  • Yes, if we were near enough to the bank, and if the vessel was floating at the time.

  • I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time; but I believe about a year before he married Mary.

  • That brother had been long removed from the country and being a sensible man, and, moreover, a single man at the time, she had a fond dependence on no human creature's having heard of it from him.

  • Immediately I knew that we had reached the center of the base of the Temple of the Sun--the spiral runway led upward past the inner walls of the prison cells.

  • But I did not give him the satisfaction that he craved.

  • And then he dismounted and placed his hand upon my shoulder after the manner of most friendly greeting upon Mars.

  • My heart could never be with the race that had heaped indignities upon my princess and my son.

  • By the time I had resumed my feet and found the button which controlled the light my caller had disappeared.

  • By the time I had regained my feet the red man had turned and ridden back to us.

  • He was not alone at the time, but there was a friend, an American named James Colver, who remained in the boat and did not meet this ecclesiastic.

  • Thus our expedition was at the time of the dry season, when the great river and its tributaries were more or less in a normal condition.

  • All this is from my hurried notes taken at the time, which give little notion of the absolute chaos to which the assembly had by this time been reduced.

  • The blankets of Challenger and of Summerlee beside the fire suggested that they had been asleep at the time.

  • What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second, I was a somewhat demoralized journalist by the time I found myself in Enmore Park once more.

  • The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompanying every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.

  • This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men.

  • Whatever money the schoolmaster possessed, and he had received his quarter's pay but a day or two before, he must have had about his person at the time of his disappearance.

  • Ye that tell us of harmony and reconciliation, can ye restore to us the time that is past?

  • The time likewise at which the continent was discovered, adds weight to the argument, and the manner in which it was peopled increases the force of it.

  • Suppose sixty excellent householders swore that when angry they had seen this crimson cloud: surely it would be absurd to answer "Oh, but you admit you were angry at the time.

  • The penny dreadfuls which I also read were indeed in a healthy and heroic tradition of Christianity; but I did not know this at the time.

  • I put these things not in their mature logical sequence, but as they came: and this view was cleared and sharpened by an accident of the time.

  • An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom.

  • So quickly had they worked and to such good purpose, that I was utterly beyond the power to resist them by the time I was fully awake.

  • In fact, the keel of the vessel must have been grazing the surface of the ground at the time.

  • A slight flush had mounted his cheek by the time he had run the gauntlet between these women; but, passing on through the chancel arch, he never paused till he came close to the altar railing.

  • It was now early spring--the time of going to grass with the sheep, when they have the first feed of the meadows, before these are laid up for mowing.

  • All this infatuation Gabriel saw, and was troubled thereby from the time of his daily journey a-field to the time of his return, and on to the small hours of many a night.

  • By the time I finish correcting school exercises and compositions, I don't always feel like writing any of my own.

  • You can smile, Anne, and I don't deny I've chuckled some over it since myself, but at the time I felt almost as much mortified as Emily.

  • That is the time I ache to tell people things, and when nobody else is handy I just HAVE to tell Mary Joe.

  • This is the time to speak plainly," said Philip Ammon.

  • By the time he left, I had gotten bold enough to come out on the trail, and I met the big Scotchman Freckles lived with.

  • At first Sinton laughed with him, but by the time he left Elnora with several packages at her gate, he was looking serious enough.

  • By the time he reached the front gate and started down the walk between the rows of asters and lady slippers he was perspiring, and every plausible and convincing speech had fled his brain.

  • Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards.

  • It is remarkable that the stature of this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Revolution.

  • I say to myself, by only sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread.

  • At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the Three Dauphins.

  • At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

  • And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

  • And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

  • Commercially viable phosphate deposits were exhausted at the time of independence in 1979.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the time" 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:
    the daughter; the first; the left; the man; the morning; the presence; the tents; thee from; thee have; then another; then bottle; then carried; then like; then passed; then ready; then return; then turns; then will; thence south; thence west; there are; there shall; thermal springs; these gentlemen; these little; these places