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Example sentences for "this year"

  • After one has been variously taken for a drummer, photographer and has been offered so much a line to "write up" booming towns, it is a relief to get back to a place where people know you.

  • Just in proportion as you feel more deeply, or notice more keenly, and as you acquire the faculty of expressing your feelings or observations more delicately and powerfully which faculty must come into practice.

  • I looked at Jenny helplessly, and said, "It's for fifty, Jenny.

  • But from the time Richard first began to make his own living one of the great pleasures of his life was to celebrate, or as he called it, to "have a party.

  • The party came back, but the Master saw them and said, "Well, it does not matter, but it is generally done.

  • They are mustering up the proxies of the absent lords; but they are not in any fear of wanting a majority, which death and accidents have increased this year.

  • My willows, and quicksets, and trees, will be finely improved, I hope, this year.

  • Pray, Madam Dingley, let me know what Presto has received for this year, or whether anything is due to him for last: I cannot look over your former letters now.

  • And you see you are going this year; and last year it rained.

  • He noticed that one day she had eaten some brown buerre pears as if she liked them; and as his trees had not produced many this year, he gave directions that this particular kind should be sought for through the neighbourhood.

  • Walking in the garden to give the gardener directions what to do this year (for I intend to have the garden handsome), Sir W.

  • In my black silk suit (the first day I have put it on this year) to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment.

  • True; it was a sad day, this year; you were in prison.

  • This wish was gratified, though not in this year.

  • I begin to breathe a little at ease; we have done with the Parliament for this year: it rises on Saturday.

  • This year Mark, the evangelist in Egypt beginneth to write the gospel.

  • This year was St. Paul converted, and St. Stephen stoned.

  • This year Claudius, king of the Romans, went with an army into Britain, and subdued the island, and subjected all the Picts and Welsh to the rule of the Romans.

  • This year Claudius, the second of the Roman emperors who invaded Britain, took the greater part of the island into his power, and added the Orkneys to rite dominion of the Romans.

  • This year (11) Pilate slew himself with his own hand.

  • His elder brother Edward had been a clergyman, but in this year died; and Joseph entreated his father that he might be educated to succeed his brother in the ministry.

  • This year was a jubilee year, and crowds of pilgrims flocked to the city from all parts of the world bringing money for the purchase of indulgences, so that Alexander was able to furnish Cesare with funds for his enterprise.

  • Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Chattanooga ended the crisis of the war, which had been at its worst for the Union in this year.

  • A brief period of leave in this year he spent at the great n:an0-uvres in Italy, to learn the art of troop-leading from the first soldier in Europe, Radetzky.

  • His dislike of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, the rejection of which he failed to secure in 1851, prevented him from joining the government of Lord John Russell, or from forming an administration himself in this year.

  • This year it is my daughter's turn to be offered to the fiend!

  • Do not think of it this year, my dear child," replied her mother.

  • As Christmas Day drew near she said to her mother, "I wonder what the good Saint Nicholas will bring me this year.

  • This year he sent word to her that he could only give her eight.

  • This year, 1707, he diminished it by ten thousand Louis.

  • Late in this year he spoke to me of his own accord about Lord Queensberry.

  • Late in this year, 1891, he published four stories completely void of offence, calling the collection "A House of Pomegranates.

  • Judged by these analogies Demeter would be the ripe crop of this year; Persephone would be the seed-corn taken from it and sown in autumn, to reappear in spring.

  • August of this year, and by the 8th of September completely gave way.

  • At the commencement of this year (1702) it seemed as though the flatterers of the King foresaw that the prosperity of his reign was at an end, and that henceforth they would only have to praise him for his constancy.

  • The death of the Abbe de Vatteville occurred at the commencement of this year, and made some noise, on account of the prodigies of the Abbe's life.

  • This year Rome is more crowded than ever before.

  • Last year he presented it to an American lady, whose devotion attracted him; this year I saw it go away in a gilded coach in the hands of an ecclesiastic.

  • This Year, we observe, he has determined again to draw it, in the Cause of Human Liberty, whatever follow.

  • This year Michael is busy in the daytime, but at present there is a harvest moon, and we spend most of the evening wandering about the island, looking out over the bay where the shadows of the clouds throw strange patterns of gold and black.

  • I am getting good wages from the first of this year, and I am afraid I won't be able to stand with it, although it is not hard, I am working in a saw-mills and getting the money for the wood and keeping an account of it.

  • This year I see a darker side of life in the islands.

  • This year I have brought my fiddle with me so that I may have something new to keep up the interest of the people.

  • This year I have got to know a wonderfully humorous girl, who has been spinning in the kitchen for the last few days with the old woman's spinning-wheel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this year" 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:
    future events; this and; this body; this conception; this court; this custom; this fellow; this game; this important; this incident; this instance; this instant; this law; this letter; this man; this manner; this period; this poem; this remark; this season; this society; this thing; this tree; this vast; this very; this vessel