DATE in a Sentence

Learn DATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
221 example sentences for DATE, such as:
1. The date went sheer out of my head.
2. She had misread a date in the Tour Book.
3. Write today's date at the top of the page.
4. Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
5. They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DATE
date
 n.  a meeting arranged in advance
 n.  a particular but unspecified point in time
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  On the other hand there were new-comers, the Manresas, bringing the old houses up to date, adding bathrooms.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  I'm afraid I am a little out of date, and my collieries are like me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Noble it stood alone above a great park, but out of date, passed over.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  There is a blank left for the surname; and then follows the date; which is within a year before the child was born.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
11  It was a practice well known on Egdon at that date, and one that is not quite extinct at the present day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
12  You will first make a note, Doctor, of the paper and the date.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  There is a date, you see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is rather vague.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
14  All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  Please give your name, address and date of birth.
2  When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
3  He hopes to be able to announce a date for inter-party talks.
4  At a future date, managers will be invited to apply for a management buy-out.
5  Write today's date at the top of the page.
6  This type of games console is starting to look well past its sell-by date.
7  I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
8  Don't forgot to write/enter the date of the meeting in your diary.
9  We haven't decided on a date for the wedding yet.
10  They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.
11  She had misread a date in the Tour Book.
12  The date of the document can be deduced from references to the Civil War.
13  Some photos contain internal evidence that may help to date them.
14  Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
15  The date went sheer out of my head.