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Example sentences for "time they"

  • Hot springs burst forth in many places where there had been no water before; but after a time they ceased to flow.

  • For a time they shared a common dread of French conquest and dominion.

  • For a time they seemed to be suffering mutely as the beasts suffer; but there is a limit to the endurance even of the most ignorant.

  • For a time they had to abandon it again to a last effort from Constantinople, but they re-entered it for good under Khalid.

  • After walking for a time they came to a jungle; then Sit said to the sipahis "How far are we to go?

  • For a time they rode on in silence, listening to the roar of the burning, and the sound of birds' wings.

  • For a time they walked on in silence, without being able to take in with their breasts their happiness, in love with each other, like two deities, and as beautiful as if spring had given them to the world with the flowers.

  • From time to time they stopped at Indian villages where the red children and their parents came dancing about them, bringing presents of fruit and fish.

  • Many a time they stop to quarrel among themselves; many a time the sledge is over-turned and the rider is landed in a bank of snow.

  • From time to time they stop to drink coffee and have a friendly chat, but all the washing is done in the open air, without need of stove or fire to help the workers.

  • Wages are usually paid from the time they commence.

  • Girls are usually paid from the time they enter.

  • And in course of time they had a great many children.

  • When they had walked for some time they came to a crossway, and there they agreed to part, and each take his own road.

  • However, those who went by sea were more fortunate, for after sailing about for some time they noticed a light before them which burned at night like a great fire.

  • Larrinaga said he was willing and after a time they went to the saloon.

  • Flora kissed Mabel and for a time they engaged in happy talk.

  • The President was occupied when they returned at dark, and for a time they sat on the arcade, playing cards.

  • For a time they followed a wheel-track skirting the mountain, but it ended by turning upwards, and they knew that this could not help them.

  • That'll mean the lock-up at Lesswardine, time they've got the case ready for the police-court.

  • Plenty of work here,' said Mick, 'time they've finished clearing these.

  • What was the length of time they could be in bed during those long hours?

  • After a time they came to the sea, and they sailed across; though where they got the ship I do not exactly know.

  • And after a time they ventured in again, and began to dance to the music.

  • Then for a time they lived in all joy and comfort.

  • At first these took place in the open air, like the old folk-moots; but in time they came to be held in a court-house.

  • They were all of one kin, and in the course of time they began to look upon their chief as their king.

  • In course of time they learned to cultivate the ground.

  • From time to time they paused as they came to some mammoth pine, and gazed in awed wonder at its huge bulk.

  • For a time they sat in silence, each busy with his own thoughts.

  • From time to time they paused to drink and rest.

  • A few yards at a time they advanced, now held back by a fallen log or turned aside by dense entanglements of prostrate trunks.

  • After a time they awoke, and slowly regained their senses; though they were so weak that they could scarcely move.

  • Then they took to their oars; and after a time they came in view of another island, and four companies of people in it, such as had never been seen before.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "time they" 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:
    billed curlew; but went; certain districts; great heights; great pain; holy places; horse artillery; mile broad; miserable existence; slavery people; time became; time being; time come; time coming; time must; time presses; time required; time should; time there; time went; time when; time wore; times gone; times more; universal knowledge; would never have been