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Example sentences for "time when"

  • The universally kind feeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace.

  • This letter was brought to City Point by General Barnard at a time when I happened to be going to Washington City, where I arrived on the 21st of January.

  • Indeed much valuable property was destroyed and many lives lost at a time when we would have liked to spare them.

  • There was a time when I was in the habit of saying "dark Madrid," an expression which, I thank God, I could now drop.

  • I hoped it was not at a time when, according to their vows, they should have lived for prayer, fasting, and mortification alone.

  • He is a merchant now, and keeps a shop in the Siarrin, but there was a time when no bloodier pirate sailed out of Algier.

  • Presently he spoke: "There was a time when a master-poet was needed.

  • Do not remain too near to me, because there was a time when I loved your employer quite as much as you do.

  • And then I feel, when it comes to a point of Greek criticism, sad regret and almost remorse at my old idleness and foolish waste of time when I might have made myself a decent scholar.

  • Then comes a time when I wish to write, e.

  • I can give up my title to that blessed hope which will stand me in stead, at a time when millions of gold will not purchase one happy moment of reflection on a past misspent life!

  • There was a time when it took a brave man to be a Christian.

  • One of them was that he could walk or run perfectly straight, but that there always came a time when he unconsciously returned upon his tracks and retraced his steps again.

  • Music nearly always puts me into the minor key; so there came a time when I could stand it no longer, and I set off to find my way back to my lodgings.

  • Yet there was a time when we had such difficulty in reading even the simplest words, that we had to take great pains to impress them upon our memory so as to know them when we came to then again.

  • Tom Peters began to feel this, even at a time when I believed myself still to be genuinely fond of him.

  • The Tribune remembered a time when a signed statement, purporting to come from a certain Mrs. Amanda P.

  • Well, there was a time when I should have been equal to anything and wouldn't have cared a--a damn.

  • But there come a time when I, even I, who am twenty year on her, do not know whether it is right or left.

  • I think Dante and Michael Angelo proved that the pure religious spirit was not dead in a time when it was proclaimed that "it is best to sleep and be of stone, not to see and not to feel, while such misery and shame endure.

  • Society, which, in the sacred names of Law and Charity, forbade the father to throw his child over Vauxhall Bridge, at a time when he was alike unconscious of life and death, has at last driven him over the parapet into the greedy waters.

  • And he managed to do this at a time when millions of better men were going hungry to bed.

  • There was a time when to have breathed a word against the good name of an honest girl, howsoever humble, would have meant the bowie-knife's fearful plunge and a dead face staring at the stars.

  • If the Memoirs were at all to be pardoned, it was because his share was only really a few notes wrung from him by large pecuniary offers at a time when he was pursued by his creditors, and when his brain was already affected.

  • He would remain by the pond for hours together, at a time when he was so weak that he could hardly support himself.

  • Written remonstrances were no more to Napoleon's taste than verbal ones at a time when, as I was informed by my friends whom fortune chained to his destiny, no one presumed to address a word to him except in answer to his questions.

  • At a time when so many were striving to force themselves into notice there still existed a feeling of esteem in the public mind for men of superior talent who remained independent amidst the general corruption; such was M.

  • Then came a time when he would ask for a horse and go for a long ride.

  • This in time would have filled and almost obliterated it, but at intervals of two or three years, at a time when it was dry, quantities of earth were dug up from the bottom and thrown on the mound inside.

  • The first intimations of the feeling are beyond recall; I only know that my memory takes me back to a time when I was unconscious of any such element in nature, when the delight I experienced in all natural things was purely physical.

  • His mother lamented, and said to her son: "Alas that I bore thee at a time when Nimrod is king.

  • On a time when he was sleeping, a great grief came upon his heart, and he wept in his dream, not knowing what the grief meant, nor what would happen to him.

  • There was a time when I was afraid that his eyes were a little holden from the truth; but in the very last talk I heard from him I found that I was wrong, and that this great humorist was as great a humanist as ever.

  • Yet he felt passionately the splendor of the English monarchy, and there was a time when he gloried in that figurative poetry by which the king was phrased as "the Majesty of England.

  • He made no great show of sympathy with people in their anxieties, but it never failed, and at a time when I lay sick for many weeks his letters were of comfort to those who feared I might not rise again.

  • Mr. Rasselyer-Brown called it a nip; and of course any man may need a nip at a time when he would scorn a drink.

  • This was necessary from time to time when loans or mortgages fell in, but he hated it.

  • At a time when St. Asaph's was not only paying its interest but showing a handsome surplus on everything it undertook, the church of St. Osoph was moving steadily backwards.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "time when" 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:
    admit the; beaten separately; certain definite; continued till; fruitful field; good humour; intense cold; private parties; sent post; the hand; time after; time became; time came; time enough; time like; time past; time the; time they; time was; time went; time when; time will; time wore; time would; times gone; times greater