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Example sentences for "year"

Lexicographically close words:
yea; yead; yeah; yeahs; yealow; yeard; yeare; yeared; yearelie; yearely
  1. It was not until late in the year that the plague approached the neighborhood.

  2. Soon after Walter's return from France Dame Vernon returned to her country estate, and a year passed before he again saw her.

  3. In 1330 a new crusade was preached, and in October of that year King Philip solemnly received the cross and collected an immense army nominally for the recovery of Jerusalem.

  4. Paris lost upward of fifty thousand of its inhabitants, while ninety thousand were swept away in Lubeck, and one million two hundred thousand died within a year of its first appearance in Germany.

  5. Walter's armor was a suit which the armorer had constructed a year previously for a young knight who had died before the armor could be delivered.

  6. As to archery, he need not go far to learn it, since your apprentice, Will Parker, last year won the prize as the best marksman in the city bounds.

  7. If you win this year again--and it will be strange if you do not--you are like enough to be chosen captain.

  8. With the cost of living rising again, next year they will want nine and ten cents--and you see the position that would put us in.

  9. Year after year this eminent legislator has favored me with floral tributes in kernel form, so that I have come to think of them as my inalienable rights as a constituent.

  10. Within a year after they leave his hands these same profs you've mentioned will be writing 'Success Through Sanscrit' and 'How I made My Pile with Paleontology' for the American Magazine.

  11. But before a year had passed there descended upon me another emissary of intellectualism.

  12. In a year you'll be in the position you are now, or worse--if you stay.

  13. During that year I will not see the lady.

  14. Will you tell me a really better plan by which we can marry in a year on an assured income?

  15. Then, I don't see how his going away for a year would help.

  16. In a year he had a son and heir, and within two months after this event, he died, leaving his nephew exactly one hundred pounds a year.

  17. They live nearly all the year round at their country place.

  18. If you spare me this year I'll do anything to help you both.

  19. He had often been warned by his uncle to spend the twenty thousand a year to which he was heir freely but not lavishly.

  20. Why should a man of your ability go twice a week in an omnibus to a shabby studio, in hopes of making a few pounds a year by copying?

  21. It was published that same year in book form by D.

  22. But even he never denied that New York had changed; and Newland Archer, in the winter of the second year of his marriage, was himself obliged to admit that if it had not actually changed it was certainly changing.

  23. Well, he was still helping her a year later, then; for somebody met 'em living at Lausanne together.

  24. At the date when she was officially enjoined to give thanks for the blessings of the year it was her habit to take a mournful though not embittered stock of her world, and wonder what there was to be thankful for.

  25. Every year on the fifteenth of October Fifth Avenue opened its shutters, unrolled its carpets and hung up its triple layer of window-curtains.

  26. He had heard the Countess Olenska's name pronounced often enough during the year and a half since they had last met, and was even familiar with the main incidents of her life in the interval.

  27. Isabel Chivers and Reggie were engaged for two years: Grace and Thorley for nearly a year and a half.

  28. The geranium, fuschia, rhododendrum, and almost all varieties of the Cacti have been taken to the colonies, and flourish well in the open air all the year round, growing much more luxuriantly than in England.

  29. Octavius talks of going out as overseer, or something of that sort, to some squatter in New South Wales for a year or so, just to learn the system, &c.

  30. In the year 3790, a dispute arose in connection with the right of priority in receiving sacred ashes between the Vaisya and true Vellala women, and the former were made to become the disciples of a new guru (religious preceptor).

  31. Tipu was reduced to submission in 1792, and by the treaty of that year he ceded half his territories to the allies.

  32. In some North Malabar title-deeds and horoscopes, Mr. Logan says, the year is taken as ending with the day previous to Onam.

  33. His fate during the year depends on whether the first object seen is auspicious, or the reverse.

  34. Not only are vows paid to this shrine, but men, letting their hair grow for a year after their father's death, proceed to have it cut there.

  35. However, with this view, almost every family religiously takes care to prepare the most sightworthy objects on the new year morning.

  36. Should the head still hang, this would be held a bad omen, foreboding calamities for the year ensuing.

  37. They were, however, much oppressed by a certain ruler, and emigrated in a body to Conjeeveram in the Tondamandalam country in the year 204 of the Kaliyuga.

  38. This ceremony takes place in the seventh, eighth, or ninth year of a boy's life.

  39. Four times a year the Mucuas assemble, sacrifice a cock, and make offerings of fruit to the log of wood.

  40. It is true that the pariahs have one day in the year when all the Nairs they can touch become their slaves, but the Nairs take such precautions to keep out of the way at the time, that an accident of that kind seldom happens.

  41. The above passage was written in the year 1843; too late.

  42. For many a year we have heard nothing with respect to the works of Turner but accusations of their want of truth.

  43. The great hall was finished in the year 1621; it is a handsome room with a carved ceiling, adorned with heads and ornaments in stucco.

  44. Scotland, in the year 1376, with his daughter, to John Lyon, Lord Glammis, chancellor of Scotland.

  45. Here also are about one hundred portraits; among which is a large picture, in a carved frame, representing Earl Patrick and his three sons; in the background is a view of the castle, as it was in the year 1683.

  46. In anser to your Innqueries, their as been a great falling off laterally, so much so this year that there was nobody allmost.

  47. Having thus achieved legislative as well as executive control, the Communists proceeded methodically during the following year to eliminate all political opposition.

  48. The academic year ran from October to September, and elementary and secondary classes ended at the end of May.

  49. Members of the Supreme Court are professional judges appointed by the Grand National Assembly to four-year terms of office.

  50. In the seven-year schools the curriculum during the last three years also included a variety of vocational subjects.

  51. These schools provided a one- or two-year program of combined general education and vocational training in all the trades necessary for the national economy.

  52. In rural areas the school year was shortened to four or six months during the winter, and additional general cultural courses were offered, as well as special courses in foreign languages and modern agricultural techniques.

  53. The girls would have fainted at such a sight a year before, but now they stood by without a quiver and watched the Indians skin the animal.

  54. The ground under these was carpeted with pine needles, which lay, year after year, until no sound echoed from the hoofbeats upon them.

  55. Then, as Mink Maiden waited hopelessly for the return of her husband, the year rolled by and Crow Man came for her.

  56. Well, Gilly, rest assured that not one scout will be found frozen that way, this year or forty years hence!

  57. And every year when the time returns that Thunder Chief came for his bride and the North Forces overpowered him, you will see Mink Maiden come from the woods, weeping over her lost love.

  58. Mr. Gilroy furnished the tents and cots and other heavy camping things last summer, but this year we will have to do without such luxuries.

  59. Rancher say dat bear neveh walk gin, but nex' year nudder rancher see bear kill calf an' many lamb and run away," added Tally.

  60. Having acquired a taste for literature in his father's book-shop, he sought and obtained about his sixteenth year admission into the order of the Jesuits.

  61. This was followed early in the same year by Deborah, in which the share of the chorus is much greater.

  62. Harcourt was appointed attorney-general in 1707, but resigned office in the following year when his friend Robert Harley, afterwards earl of Oxford, was dismissed.

  63. From 1861 he contributed largely to All the Year Round, and many of his articles were republished in collected form.

  64. In the year 1042 he left Constantinople, the story says because he was refused the hand of a princess, and on his way back to his own country he married Ellisif or Elizabeth, daughter of Yaroslav of Novgorod.

  65. This is particularly noticeable in his flesh tints which from year to year became more grey, until finally the shadows were painted in almost absolute black, as in the "Tymane Oosdorp," of the Berlin Gallery.

  66. The pair thus handfasted were, in accordance with Scotch law, entitled to live together for a year and a day.

  67. He defended Sacheverell at the bar of the House of Lords in 1710, being then without a seat in parliament; but in the same year was returned for Cardigan, and in September again became attorney-general.

  68. To obtain even a few flowers at this time of the year much previous care and attention must have been expended.

  69. In the name of a person I know intimately, I offer you £180 a year for it: and it's cheap too.

  70. They thrive best in good loamy soil, which has been well manured the year previous to planting.

  71. Until that year also he must bear upon his forehead the sign of his caste, which Ryas, our bearer, calls "the god mark.

  72. However, before an officer is eligible for staff employment in India he must serve at least one year with a British regiment and one year with a native regiment, and must pass examinations in the native languages and on professional subjects.

  73. The most interesting monument in the city is the Lat of Osoka, one of a series of stone columns erected by King Asoka throughout his domains about the year B.

  74. Within this area," Lord Curzon says, "the famine conditions for the greater part of a year were intense.

  75. At certain seasons of the year they may clothe themselves in filthy rags for the time being as an evidence of humility.

  76. Several wealthy families have cottages on the grounds which they occupy for a few days each year on festival occasions or as retreats.

  77. And in the fall of the year I do a lot of tramping about in the woods with a gun.

  78. Some of them stayed pleasantly corned year in and year out and supposed all the time they merely were enjoying good health.

  79. This brings us up to the early spring of this year of grace, 1921, which is what I have been aiming for all through this paragraph.

  80. That he who many a year with toil of breath 5 Found death in life, may here find life in death!

  81. It was written in the year 1798, near Nether Stowey, in Somersetshire, at which place (sanctum et amabile nomen!

  82. And yet I do not believe that I could live a single year with only the sound of cooing in the house.

  83. This year as never before I have felt the beauty of the world.

  84. But this year I have hardly glanced at the small choice edition of Nature's spring verses.

  85. There was the Fourth, which is always the grandest occasion of the year with us.

  86. As I was stooping down I heard a timid, playful voice at the window like the echo of a year ago: "Are you the gardener?

  87. I never dreamed that she could bring me fresh news of that rare spirit whom I have so wished to see, and for one week in the woods with whom I would give any year of my life.

  88. If man could only moult also--his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions!

  89. Every year several pairs make their appearance about my place.

  90. That which prompteth me to that opinion is, that the vine-planters did seldom eat of the grapes, or drink of the wine of their labour, till the first year was wholly elapsed.

  91. It was printed as a whole at first, without the name of the place, in 1564, and next year at Lyons by Jean Martin.

  92. I believe certainly that in the next ensuing year I shall once more preach the Crusade.

  93. I could make a shift for this year to waive such molestation and disquiet, and be content to lay aside that trouble, and not to be engaged in it.

  94. As Homer says, that the child, which Neptune begot upon the nymph, was born a whole year after the conception, that is, in the twelfth month.

  95. Add to this the evident reasons given by all good and learned physicians, affirming that throughout the whole year no food is eaten that can prompt mankind to lascivious acts more than at that time.

  96. This was the year of flabby cods, near Teumessus, between Thebes and Chalcis.

  97. Of a pale and stricken fazendiero on the Rio Laurenço who thought him a deputy and humbly implored the grace of The Master for a moody twelve year old girl.

  98. That is on Henderson Island in New Year Sound, and its seventeen-hundred-foot peak was almost below Bell when he sighted the islands.

  99. He walked over to the integrating machine, which as early as the year 2031 had begun to replace the older atomic processes, due to the shortage of the radium series metals.

  100. Tell me, is it true that this is the year 2044 and that the proletariat has not yet triumphed?

  101. One time a family take me to New York and I stay a year or two.

  102. And the Nile used to be named Sihor by the Egyptians; and the year separated into three seasons, Flood time, Seed time, and Harvest.

  103. She wisely waited to do that until he was dead; so it came on only a year ago.

  104. A few thousands a year is my most ambitious figure for a wife.

  105. The year after, 1893, a Catholic church was burnt down at Mar Cheng, on the Yangtse, near Ichang.

  106. Her Majesty received New Year presents from all the Viceroys and principal officials.

  107. This is to enable each one to commence the New Year with a kind of reserve fund for a rainy day, when they would have this money to fall back upon.

  108. This being my first year at the Palace, it appeared to me very strange, after the customary gaiety and noise.

  109. The fifteenth of the seventh moon each year is the day of the festival for the dead, and early in the morning the Court moved to the Sea Palace in order to sacrifice.

  110. Continuing, Her Majesty said: "A year ago one of the foreign ladies came to the Palace, and hearing me cough a lot, gave me some black pills and told me to swallow them.

  111. This happened on the fifth day of the fifth moon, so the year afterwards, the Emperor got into a Dragon boat to worship his soul, and throw rice cakes, called Tzu Tsi, into the river.

  112. At the end of the year the name of each person executed is written on a piece of yellow paper and sent to the Emperor.

  113. The first garden party of the year was given by the Empress Dowager to the ladies of the Diplomatic Corps, in the fourth moon.

  114. The climate at this time of the year is very damp, which causes the flies to make their appearance in millions.

  115. This year very few guests attended the Garden Party but among those who did come were several strangers.

  116. Well then, said he, I will abate you five pounds a year for seven years, provided you will lay it upon your wife and self, that you may make a Sunday-appearance like MY tenants.

  117. Twelve-year old Patience entered one of the schools established by the Freedmen's Bureau.

  118. The book was written in the year 1836 and the few pages produced by her gave information concerning the Negro, Lovejoy of St. Louis, Missouri.

  119. It was entered, according to the Act of Congress in the year 1900 by Horace C.

  120. I was ony five year old when dey brung me to Sanderson, in Baker County, Florida.

  121. Twice a year Mary's father and master went to Cedar Keys, Florida to get salt.

  122. Irene married while in Georgia and came back to Jacksonville with her husband Charles, the year of the earthquake at Charleston, South Carolina, about 1888.

  123. Until the year of the "shake" (earthquake of 1886) there were no Negro school teachers on Saint John's County and no school buildings.

  124. I thought I would get one, but all I got was some PWA work, and this year they told me I was too old for that.

  125. Pur, the male lamb Chilver-hog and Pur-hog, sheep under one year old Chine s.

  126. Cenwealh in this year fought against the Welsh at Pen, and put them to flight as far as the Parret.

  127. And I say,” cried she, “that in her seventeenth year she shall prick her finger with a spindle and fall dead.

  128. He can hardly find another dog as pretty as these, but still it is only right to wait until he returns, or until the year is up.

  129. At the end of a year a fine little child was born to the Queen.

  130. The year had passed, all but three days, when suddenly the Prince remembered his errand.

  131. I will give you a year in which to find me the smallest and prettiest little dog in the world.

  132. A year after I look for him, and see him no more," said Cagliostro, anxiously consulting his glass.

  133. Well, I follow the example of the monks of Heidelberg, and preserve my body by introducing into it every year new elements, which regenerate the old.

  134. Favras; and, indeed, much better, for this is but the second or third time I have had the honor of seeing you, while I lived nearly a year under the same tent with him of whom you speak.

  135. Forty-eight francs a year is not sufficient pay for that.

  136. Potemkin, bought every year for his queen, on the first of January, a basket of cherries which cost one hundred thousand crowns--one thousand francs a cherry.

  137. So, before the year was ended, they both heartily wished themselves back in America again.


  138. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "year" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annum; century; class; date; day; decade; fortnight; grade; hour; luster; millennium; minute; moment; month; moon; quarter; second; semester; session; sun; term; vintage; week; year


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    year after; year ago; year agone; year and; year before; year course; year ending; year from; year hence; year later; year period; year terms; yearly income; yearly tribute; years after; years afterwards; years ago; years before; years earlier; years female; years from; years gone; years old; years past; years since; years went