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Example sentences for "whole week"

  • The violence done to his feelings in enduring La Mauricaude for a whole week had so much increased his prejudice, that it had extended to the whole family.

  • He was away for a whole week, but it seemed but a few hours to Benee.

  • Life on board the raft was for a whole week a most uneventful dreamy sort of existence.

  • But the raft never stirred nor moved for a whole week.

  • I don't want to stay on shore a whole week," pouted the first mate of the Fawn.

  • What shall I do with myself for a whole week on shore?

  • I have as good a right in her as you have, and I don't mean to stay on shore here a whole week, sucking my fingers, when there is fun to be had.

  • It is almost a pity the boat had not come on Monday, so that you could have had a whole week to think about her before Sunday.

  • After brooding over his misfortune for a whole week, he imagined he was a donkey.

  • He remained for a whole week in solitary confinement, brooding over his misfortune.

  • For those two gentlemen, who are handsome, educated, and accomplished, neither of these young ladies has had a kindly look or friendly word for a whole week.

  • Provisions for a whole week, and just a little rum in case of illness or over-exertion, for in the bitter cold of upper regions like those they were about to visit, exhaustion may often come on soon and sudden.

  • It took them a whole week and a day to get everything snug and comfortable; and all this time it continued calm.

  • They had worked for a whole week, but without success, when one evening a loud and awful trumpeting told them that elephants had arrived on the plains below, or were passing through the country of the cannibals for pastures new.

  • The Flora M'Vayne lay here for a whole week, fishing and curing each catch.

  • A whole week elapsed, when one evening the farmer was standing near the barn wondering if ever he would see his little friend again.

  • He had some extra animal energy to expend that morning, and he did it--so successfully, too, that for a whole week never a bit of work was done about the place.

  • Think of a whole week, and not a penny to come out of your pocket; for Aunt Susan has a little sum put by, and she means to give me and whichever of my school-fellows I like best a real treat.

  • I promised Professor Merriman that I would have nothing to do with you for a whole week.

  • Now, I was not reciting last night; I was talking to another girl, and no less a girl than that one I had promised you to have no communication with for a whole week--Irene Ashleigh.

  • And the dress he took and spread out on iron tables, and, sprinkling the golden flour all over it, set the men to beat day and night for a whole week.

  • So for a whole week he had stayed with the ship, like a whisper of its vanished life amid the blues of a deep calm.

  • I couldn't bear to leave you, it'll be a whole week before we get another day.

  • North took a whole week to screw up His courage, h-s M-j-sty pricking him every day.

  • I shan't see you again till I get to Brampton," he said; "that will be a whole week.

  • Only the sad thing is, sometimes a whole week will go by without my getting to sleep once.

  • During the homeward journey (it lasted a whole week) doubts seldom arose in him; they grew stronger and more distinct directly he was back at Bezsonovo, directly he was home again in the place where the old authentic Malek-Adel had lived.

  • And the vessel may lay there a whole week.

  • And arter dey'd stayed dere a whole week 'quiring, dey was furder off from findin' out nor ebber.

  • Which dey needn't o' stayed 'quiring and eaten' and drinkin' on us a whole week to tell us dat.

  • He is, indeed, a whole week--but how burning hot your hand is still.

  • What would you give now to have your father at home for a whole week longer?

  • I shall be so silly as to attach any importance to it if he is not; but after a whole week!

  • In that case, a whole week of mowing, of clipping edges, of picking lavender, and gathering groundsel for the cage-birds!

  • Goodness knows we have music enough here during any day to last us over a whole week.

  • But even with these excuses I could sometimes not get through more than three or four pages of my own book during a whole week.

  • They knew, of course, how the campers expected to stay there on Catamount Island for a whole week; and the temptation to try and play a mean trick on Max and his chums had finally moved them to get a boat, and row all the way up here.

  • You've got to stay right there a whole week, night after night, to win out.

  • For a whole week Kondjé-Gul, who had been rather overawed at first and astonished at all her new surroundings, seemed to live like one dazed.

  • After I had spent a whole week in looking about, I found, in the Beaujou district, an institution for young ladies presided over by a Madame Montier, a kind woman of polished manners.

  • For a whole week I have been deceiving you," she continued, "by telling you that I had no troubles, and that I did not know the cause of that sadness which I could not conceal from you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole week" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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