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Example sentences for "time after"

  • Time after time I asked myself that question.

  • Time after time I visited that green-painted seat near which the dead man had been found and where I had discovered the imprint of Lola's shoe.

  • Time after time I asked myself why my thoughts should so constantly revert to her.

  • She knows that he has since, time after time, tried to finish it, and that, time after time, the pen has dropped from his fingers.

  • Time after time I have tried to escape the temptation; and time after time the circumstances drive me back again.

  • I have been asked, time after time, for my theory of the crime.

  • Time after time, finding myself at the boundary of the Kasbah, I again turned and plunged into the narrow, crooked thoroughfares, hoping by wandering in this manner to discover the house to which I had been conducted.

  • Time after time I struggled to get free, but in vain.

  • But the defenders held together in solid phalanx, and repulsed us time after time, until many more of our bold, undaunted horsemen lay weltering in their blood.

  • Time after time I deciphered the mysterious message I had found by my side when consciousness returned to me, but it brought no satisfaction.

  • One small boy particularly came back time after time to ask him, with solemn face "Please, sir, is this the country?

  • They say there will be plenty of time after Easter.

  • Time after time I tried to comfort myself with the thought that I did not intentionally kill him, that it was an accident which caused him to fall upon those cruel rocks hundreds of feet below, but I found no comfort in the thought.

  • Time after time I essayed to reach her, and time after time I failed.

  • Time after time I thought we should have been thrown into the sea, but luckily we caught no side winds.

  • Time after time I called him and tried to quiet him; but he was beyond control.

  • Time after time I tried to get in close enough to grab one of the buck's hind legs, but it was not to be caught.

  • Time after time he would close his eyes as if the sight of the meat was more than he could bear, and his mouth would water so from the savoury smell that long streels of dribble would hang down on either side.

  • Time after time, his instruments had simply refused to function because of some basic flaw in their manufacture--some flaw that an expert in that field could have pointed out at once.

  • Time after time, equipment had had to be rebuilt almost from the beginning.

  • And, time after time, only cut-and-try methods were available for correcting his errors.

  • Also he tried to recall all the circumstances of his proposal, time after time, and never quite succeeded in recalling what had brought the thing off.

  • Time after time, I've dreamt of it, and now he's come.

  • Time after time, as he spoke to her and she answered, he recognised that upon her mind rested some heavy burden which oppressed and crushed her.

  • The reason is that meaningful material can better be read observantly, time after time, than is possible with nonsense material.

  • The white men have sent their messengers to me time after time to urge me to ally myself with them, but it shall never be recorded that Samory besought the assistance of infidels to extend his kingdom.

  • The weapon with which I was armed was old-fashioned, and as I fired it time after time it grew hot, and the smoke became so thick that everything was obscured.

  • Time after time I craved permission to write to His Excellency the American Ambassador, to request him to tell my people at home that I was alive.

  • This is in the later stages, when the nest is being lined, and when the birds come, time after time, at intervals of a few minutes, each with a feather in its bill.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "time after" 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:
    drew nearer; fifteenth century; fresh butter; had obtained; honest woman; indefinitely large; looking west; search for; state affairs; time became; time being; time came; time come; time have; time presses; time required; time should; time they; time when; time wore; time would; times greater; times more; times past; tree near; your time