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Example sentences for "weekend"

Lexicographically close words:
weedy; week; weekday; weekdays; weeke; weekends; weekes; weeklies; weekly; weeks
  1. But by the time Noda got finished with the dollar, it probably wouldn't cover a weekend seminar.

  2. This weekend let's stay at a place where nothing will exist but you and me, not even time.

  3. Sharon's dad took her there last weekend for her birthday and it sounded really neat.

  4. The mutual fund managers, most of whom had been caught with their pants at half-mast, were devoting their energies that weekend to composing creative explanations.

  5. Then Tam: Due to technical difficulties with transmitter, weekend operations terminated.

  6. Since my own part was still down the road, that weekend I just sat in their offices watching spellbound as Noda and Dr.

  7. Now that her apartment in the West Seventies had become Jack's weekend hideaway, his escape from phones and conferences, the number was as carefully guarded as a Minuteman launch code.

  8. New friends can't begin sentences with "Remember that weekend before you were married when we got drunk and .

  9. She well knew that some girls would think all this unnecessary, and that all she and Jon need do was to go away together for a weekend and then say to their people: "We are married by Nature, we must now be married by Law.

  10. In other words, it's not likely to be a weekend business--they'll come together seriously or not at all.

  11. This was only a short distance, between 50 and 71 miles, and he would go home on weekend passes; and once we were through classes on Friday, we were free as long as we were in class again on Monday morning, as I recall.

  12. I had to get them to retract--according to the Associated Press Monday they had it on the wire that you people had come out to my house over the weekend and interviewed me--and I was on my way to Washington Monday!

  13. Yes; every weekend that I was off, you know, roughly three weekends a month.

  14. Were you present at any discussions over this weekend or during the period following the Ford party in which the question of whether or not Oswald was an agent of the Soviet Union was discussed?

  15. And the first time, I believe it was in August of 1962, that I met Oswald, was about--when I made one of these weekend trips.

  16. All right, then when I met Oswald is on one of these weekend trips.

  17. Was this a fair statement, Mr. Powers, whether or not he went to New Orleans on his weekend leave, he did not remain in the Biloxi area, is your impression?

  18. It was a weekend before he went to New Orleans and after the Walker business I think.

  19. The time that he describes was a 5-day weekend up in Hyannis Port.

  20. Every weekend but one and that was the weekend previous to the assassination.

  21. Was it the weekend before the assassination?

  22. On Friday evening, the 22d, my wife and I left the city to spend the weekend at a little cabin we have up in the Connecticut woods.

  23. It was the last weekend preceding the assassination?

  24. Cash; and he said that his wife would be coming in that Sunday, the weekend you know.

  25. Now, in the next weekend, that would be the weekend before the assassination, he stayed there?

  26. Was there one weekend when he was gone in which he didn't return on Monday but he came back the next day, on Tuesday?

  27. It might be in the evening or it might have been on a weekend during the daytime.

  28. Let me ask you this: did he, that weekend, that was the weekend before the assassination, on a Saturday, make a trip to a place where they wash clothes?

  29. At night one time, and then when he come to pick him up for the weekend he was by himself.

  30. Is there anybody that you know of at your house that you say saw Oswald leave the house the weekend before the assassination?

  31. Mr. Simcox, as the week drew on, suggested a weekend at home.

  32. Saturday and the weekend should be spent, all four together.

  33. But naturally I would go there on the weekend and come back.

  34. The weekend of November 8, 9, and 10 was a long weekend, was it not?

  35. You asked me at some time during my testimony was I away during the weekend for any length of time other than to go to the grocery store.

  36. And your recollection is that you saw him each weekend after that except for the weekend immediately prior to the assassination?

  37. But, in any event, you do remember clearly and distinctly that you advised Mr. Hosty that Lee did visit on weekends and that Mr. Hosty could return the next weekend or even this particular weekend to see Lee Oswald if he wished?

  38. Would it have been that weekend or after that?

  39. Was that the last weekend that you saw him then?

  40. This is the weekend as to which you had some difficulty recalling whether Lee actually visited your home?

  41. And that it was some other weekend that he did not come on Friday, but came on Saturday morning.

  42. Did there come a time over the weekend either at the Ford party or following the Ford party where the Oswalds were discussed in your presence?

  43. It was further agreed that the two groups would use the chapel, St. Nicholas' Church 1 weekend per month and St. Seraphim's Church the rest of the time.

  44. I think I probably saw him on each weekend except the one preceding the assassination.

  45. On the other hand, a weekend partial recovery was not totally beyond the realm of medical possibility.

  46. This was definitely a weekend of the unexpected.

  47. The man appeared to be in his early forties, puffy-eyed and pink-cheeked with discount aviator shades, looking like a glad-handing tourist just down to Central America for a weekend of unchaperoned bacchanals.

  48. A week ago we went to an auction room where there was a big collection of genuine old stuff, much finer than appears in the curio shops, and this weekend there is another big sale by a Marquis.

  49. The distant applause of rain and the weekend screaming of a girl.

  50. On a sharp weekend afternoon Pendleton was killing time in the produce district before driving over to Beth's.

  51. One weekend afternoon--oh, about two or three weeks after the agency sent you off--I was here trying to be an old lady.

  52. The weekend bags were packed and stacked at their feet.

  53. She was still clutching her weekend bag in one hand and a wilted flower, a wet program and a faded little football in the other.

  54. Some grabbed armfuls of clothes as they fled; others carried dresser drawers, or weekend bags and were spilling things leaving a trail of lingerie and toiletries behind.

  55. He was letting go after the long weekend and was sorry to see her leave.

  56. Joe was an athlete, a most likely to succeed guy; yet there he was every weekend in the BX with Shannon, fascinated by the aging bus boy loading his cart.

  57. This weekend was a parent's reward; he accepted it gratefully.

  58. Now, the weekend of November 15th to 17th, which was the weekend before the assassination, do you know what your husband did or how he spent that weekend while he was in Dallas?

  59. And did he work the weekend or any overtime?

  60. Of course, in his bedroom with my children, just maybe not even every weekend because he traveled, and then I decided I would marry Mr. Ekdahl.

  61. Now, the weekend of October 25th to the 27th, did your husband return to Irving that weekend?

  62. It is hard to remember now which weekend was which.

  63. He works in Dallas, and this is Irving, and he has no transportation, and he comes every weekend to see his family.

  64. But I remember that the weekend before he shot at the President, he did not come on Saturday and Sunday.

  65. On the weekend before your husband got his job at the depository, did he spend that with you at the Paines?

  66. One such weekend was the occasion of the birthday of Mrs. Paine's daughter.

  67. After he got his job, did he return the next weekend to see you?

  68. That would be the weekend before the assassination, to refresh your memory again.

  69. This change, however, makes it possible to end the term on the weekend of July 2.

  70. Did he spend the first weekend of October 4 to 6 with you at the Paines?

  71. I remember that there was one weekend when he didn't come on a Friday, but said that he would come on a Saturday.

  72. Was there any evidence that the hint you gave, or that was given, to Lee Harvey not to come over this weekend caused him any annoyance?

  73. But other than that possibility, there was nothing--it was a normal weekend at your home?

  74. Now, following that weekend, which was the weekend of November 8 through 10, I think you have already described that weekend.

  75. Because I remember the weekend that this note or rough draft remained on my secretary desk.

  76. Now, was there an occasion during the course of that weekend when a phone call was made to Lee Harvey Oswald.

  77. At any time during the weekend you were in New Orleans or driving from New Orleans to Irving, Tex.

  78. Was it during the weekend that he did not return to your home, the weekend immediately preceding the assassination day?

  79. But it is your definite recollection that his failure to come on the weekend preceding the assassination was not at his doing but at the request of Marina, under the circumstances you have related?

  80. No, sir; I have thought about it again and the events surrounding that weekend were very kaleidoscopic, and I talked with Dr.

  81. And did you make an effort to leave the area of Dallas immediately following the Monday after the weekend of the assassination and the killing of Oswald in an effort to get away from the press conferences?

  82. Now, the next weekend was November 1st to 3d, which is Friday to Sunday, is that correct?

  83. Now, there came an occasion, did there not, that weekend or the following weekend at which there was a discussion at least by you with some neighbors with respect to efforts to obtain employment for Lee Harvey Oswald?

  84. Next weekend my mom and dad are going to Saturn for a barbeque.

  85. My parents are part-time astronauts, and one weekend they took a trip to Neptune (they love it in the summer).

  86. That was after his long weekend he came back on a Tuesday that week?

  87. It was on the weekend that I'd come home, and there was a paper up in the left-hand corner.

  88. No; there was one weekend that he didn't go out.

  89. Now, was one weekend when he didn't come back on Monday?

  90. I believe it was on the weekend before--when was President Kennedy shot?

  91. But the weekend before November 22d, he was there all weekend, was he?

  92. I mean that I am deliberately not spending the weekend there.

  93. Well, I'm not spending the weekend at Bodfish's place in the country.

  94. I therefore selected that moment for beginning not to weekend with Bodfish.

  95. Have you ever spent a weekend at Bodfish's place in the country?

  96. Can you imagine anything more awful than to spend a weekend with Bodfish?

  97. Can you imagine anything more delightful, then, than not spending a weekend with Bodfish?

  98. If you think your marriage is sound, you aren't strongly motivated to spend a weekend making it even sounder.

  99. B] THE PLAN Yearly Meetings throughout the United States were invited to select with care a married couple for a weekend of training at Pendle Hill, the Quaker study center near Philadelphia.

  100. The aspects of marriage they want to include for discussion before the weekend is over gives us clues to the issues that are important to them.

  101. We strongly favor the residential weekend retreat, although we have met with groups of couples for separate evening sessions spaced out over four to six weeks.

  102. That reminds me," I said, "How would you like it if I'd invite Hellwig up here for a weekend some time?

  103. So me and the wife's going on a weekend trip, and he can run the darn thing all by himself.

  104. Memorial Day and a weekend had been courteous enough to get together and arrange a three-day holiday; and so we decided to take a trip to the desert.

  105. Grant would come back each weekend and possibly once during each week, although to drive ninety miles each way just to be here for a few hours would hardly be worthwhile.

  106. You mean, you'd ask him to come sometime when it's my weekend to come there too?

  107. The advice of the landlord or manager of the building was they moved in on the third, but do you recall that it was a weekend rather than a weekday?

  108. He said that he was lonely because he hadn't come the preceding weekend and he wanted to make his peace with me.

  109. She at one point said to him on a weekend when he came out that my Russian was improving while his was getting worse, and I was embarrassed to have her say this.

  110. And you said Lee Oswald--the Oswalds were in your store on the weekend preceding the game?

  111. Right; during the week preceding the weekend on which Richland Hills played Irving.

  112. My status there, I was, I worked once every fourth night, also every fourth weekend so I wasn't home all the time.

  113. I cannot recall the date of the call, but I think it occurred during the week prior to the weekend my husband flew home to visit me from New Orleans where his ship was docked.

  114. I noticed on November 23 when I looked at the pile of second class mail and third class mail that was waiting for him to come that weekend that it included a copy of The Militant--that was the first I had noticed.

  115. I told my husband about the call on the weekend he visited me.

  116. So we were all involved in this moving business, and my sister Annie, who at the time was staying with some American friends, had come over that weekend to babysit for me.

  117. He was at home the weekend before Rachel was born.

  118. What weekend following the time he shot at General Walker?

  119. That was probably the first weekend in December, or at least 2 weeks after the assassination--more likely 3.

  120. I recall, my husband had shipped out the weekend prior to the call.

  121. There was a bunch of other stuff at the auction, other craphounds' weekend treasures.

  122. Well, there're amateurs who just read the ads in the weekend papers, or just pick a neighbourhood and wander around, but that's no way to go about it.

  123. I'd put my finds from the weekend in the sale: lower minimum bid, and they took a smaller commission than Sotheby's.

  124. Another weekend a childhood friend invited me to a beach party in New York.

  125. Charging one thousand dollars a person for weekend desert trips (1987).

  126. But during nightmare weekend in Seattle, he reportedly sat across from the three tripping women and giggled.

  127. It seems that the Baron was a ringer in the set where Sadie and Pinckney had been doing the weekend house-party act.

  128. That gives the Whaleys what they've been wishin' for, and me a chance to do the weekend act now and then.

  129. He came to spend the weekend with us, and expressed such disappointment at your absence that I gave him your address so he could look you up.

  130. She invited him to spend the weekend with her father and herself, to talk over the book and other things.


  131. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weekend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    furlough; holiday; leave; liberty; summer; vacation; weekend; winter