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Example sentences for "whole year"

  • Its flesh, when salted and dried in the sun, can be preserved a whole year; and, as the clergy regard this mammiferous animal as a fish, it is much sought during Lent.

  • After having been compelled during a whole year to drink water at 27 or 28 degrees, a lowering of a few degrees in the temperature produces a very agreeable sensation.

  • For a whole year I have thought in secret of her, and in this sorrowful feeling I have grown to be a man.

  • Our Lady Bradamante has not used her conquering weapons for a whole year.

  • Any one who happens to enter a house, in which a grown up person lies dead, must not enter the house of Mangu-khan during a whole year; if the dead person is a child, he is only debarred for one lunation.

  • When any one dies, he is mourned for with violent howlings, and the mourners are free from tribute during a whole year.

  • There he abode a whole year in evil plight, whilst his fellows mourned over his beauty and grace.

  • If he fails to do this, he is called the Red Cock for a whole year, and people fear that next year's crop will be bad.

  • For a whole year he was maintained at the public expense, being fed on choice and pure food.

  • The reindeer which brought in the carcase on a sledge may not be driven by a woman for a whole year; indeed, according to one account, it may not be used by anybody for that period.

  • After this Salim abode in the governance, invested with the Sultanate, and ruled the people a whole year, when he returned to Al-Mansúrah and sojourned there another year.

  • Brief, he acquainted her with that which had betided him of sickness and sorrow for the space of a whole year.

  • She ceased not so doing a whole year, and little by little she sold off her goods and gave charitable gifts to the sick and sorry; whereby her report was bruited abroad in the city and the folk abounded in her praise.

  • On such wise fared it with her; but as for Salim he abode with the Cook a whole year's space, bringing him two dinars a day; and when his affair waxed longsome, the man felt for him and pitied him.

  • So he knew it and taking the matter to heart, held aloof in great grief from his wife for a whole year, not going in unto her nor even speaking to her, whilst she knew not the reason of his anger.

  • One day of a year is counted for a whole year.

  • Thirty days in a year are equivalent to a whole year.

  • For a whole year, in that flat, she had been the person whose will was government, who had to be pleased and obeyed.

  • But soon he would be away from marriage for a whole year.

  • Was it possible that he had been away for a whole year?

  • I knew it must mean a lot to him not to have to worry about money any more for a whole year, and--and to get away.

  • You forget I've had a whole year's holiday.

  • Thou hast been with me a whole year, night and day, waking and sleeping, yet hast not spoken to me till this day.

  • FN#306] Then he devoted himself altogether to her, heeding none other and forsaking all his concubines and favourites, and tarried with her a whole year as it were a single day.

  • She bound herself to do this, and received regular powers from him for the uninterrupted management of his property and administration of his affairs for a whole year.

  • I do not think that now, after a whole year of apparent relinquishment of that pursuit, my father has any thought of resuming it, which leaves me free to make the attempt.

  • Now every eight days she made a curtain, which he sold for fifty dinars, and on this wise passed a whole year.

  • She ate the pike's head and went about as usual for a whole year, and when the year was out she gave birth to a son who was a serpent.

  • Maybe he had been a whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he thought to himself, "How shall I now manage to live in the wide, wide world?

  • I'll serve thee for a whole year," said he, "if thou wilt give me that wild colt.

  • So I journeyed to Roum land and visited every part for a whole year, and left no place but therein I worshiped Allah.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole year" 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:
    country town; forest reserve; glass painting; pour les; province called; true genius; whole allspice; whole army; whole family; whole force; whole frame; whole group; whole groups; whole holiday; whole hour; whole life; whole lot; whole milk; whole night; whole pepper; whole race; whole series; whole soul; whole week; whole year; wholesome food