FORTNIGHT in a Sentence
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106 example sentences for FORTNIGHT, such as:
1. We make a fortnightly check on supplies.
2. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.
3. A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall.
4. I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.
5. The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.
2. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.
3. A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall.
4. I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.
5. The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.
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Meanings and Examples of FORTNIGHT
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fortnight
n. a period of fourteen consecutive days
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1 A whole fortnight of fun will be regularly splendid, replied Jo, looking like a windmill as she folded skirts with her long arms.
2 The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.
3 She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight's fun and feeling that she had 'sat in the lap of luxury' long enough.
4 And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.
5 I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
6 For a fortnight, the Professor came and went with lover-like regularity.
7 I now busied myself in preparations: the fortnight passed rapidly.
8 An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
9 Mr. Rochester had been absent upwards of a fortnight, when the post brought Mrs. Fairfax a letter.
10 A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall.
11 He had been called away by the sudden death of his father: he was at Marsh End now, and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer.
12 I was astonished when a fortnight passed without reply; but when two months wore away, and day after day the post arrived and brought nothing for me, I fell a prey to the keenest anxiety.
13 As I said, I shall return from Cambridge in a fortnight: that space, then, is yet left you for reflection.
14 I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.
15 A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.
Example Sentence:
1 If you think it useful to write to me, within a fortnight from the present date, direct to me at the post-office.
2 This testimonial I accordingly received in about a month, forwarded a copy of it to Mrs. Fairfax, and got that lady's reply, stating that she was satisfied, and fixing that day fortnight as the period for my assuming the post of governess in her house.
3 About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought.
4 For a fortnight he and his companion Dimitri Kieffer pulled their equipment over the eighty kilometre stretch of frozen water with the sounds of ice breaking just a few miles behind them.
5 Many swap the daily commute for weekly or fortnightly travel and say their faraway homes give them a lifestyle not achievable within a shorter commute.
6 We make a fortnightly check on supplies.