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Example sentences for "whole day"

  • Our longest trip was to some Indian houses, a distance of fifteen or eighteen miles up the Sapo, a journey made with one Indian paddler, and occupying a whole day.

  • But the latter were so rare that we could obtain them only by employing a native hunter, who used to spend a whole day, and go a great distance to obtain two or three specimens.

  • The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

  • I shall have a whole day's freedom for the first time in weeks.

  • The divel a better corps within a whole day's march.

  • The prize property was removed to camp, and sold by public auction, which lasted a whole day.

  • Nothing would gratify my curiosity more than to be able to watch you through a whole day.

  • The slightest excess, and too surely he paid for it on the morrow, not merely with a passing headache, but with a whole day's miserable discomfort.

  • But, supposing this correction to have been made, it would have again become necessary, at the end of 308 years, to advance them one line higher, in consequence of the accumulation of the error of the cycle to a whole day.

  • Mr. Woolner arrived in Paris a few days after Mr. Hamerton, and they spent a whole day together in the sculpture galleries of the Louvre.

  • Woodward is going to give me a whole day at Windsor.

  • We also visited Nîmes, Orange, and Montélimart, giving a whole day to each place.

  • But I understand the matter better than you do, and I'll give you a whole day of my time.

  • It was no small matter for Grubersepp thus to give a whole day of his time, and in midsummer at that.

  • Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.

  • I have spent a whole day alone in the woods.

  • Follow him a whole day, and not one wounded bird.

  • Though at any moment during that one year of their love he would have risked his life and sacrificed his career for a whole day in her company, he never, by word or look, compromised her.

  • For a whole day he was highly nervous about himself and went in advance of all precautions and remedies; drawing every breath with extreme care and having his temperature taken every hour.

  • So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

  • We are told that the sacred writer wrote in common speech as we do when we talk about the rising and setting of the sun, and that all he intended to say was that the earth ceased to turn on its axis "for about a whole day.

  • The 12th December he took a vessel bound from Cherisse for Panama with provisions, which employed the launch and pinnace of the Success a whole day in bringing on board the flour and other provisions out of the prize.

  • They even got sight of her, and chased her a whole day to no purpose, as she was quite clean, and the Nicholas was as foul as could well be.

  • Well, Charley, my boy, I would rather go to Washington and look at our old copy of the Declaration of Independence than gaze for a whole day at this vast collection of treasure.

  • The department of ornithology is wonderful, and I could have enjoyed a whole day in examining the birds of all climates.

  • Naturally we must begin the conversation, for an inferior would rather be silent a whole day than to speak first to his superior.

  • Her bridal toilet, which had been the work of a whole day, was undone in five minutes.

  • A whole day, and a whole night we listened to the raging and the roaring of the wind.

  • It cannot please God to go by train and eat galette and waste a whole day in getting dusty.

  • I have been once or twice; but it loses a whole day.

  • Give her rest," they all said; and one by one moved away, being poor folk and hard working, and unable to lose a whole day.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole day" 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:
    customs duties; good anchorage; main line; qualitative analysis; she and; strong appeal; whole being; whole day; whole family; whole force; whole group; whole groups; whole holiday; whole hour; whole life; whole lot; whole milk; whole month; whole nation; whole night; whole people; whole series; whole story; whole week; wholesale prices; whose house