period
Example Sentences
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An Ellis Mee break almost from the restart provided Wales with the first period of pressure.
From BBC
When actors become famous for one long-running role at an early age, there’s typically a period when they try as hard as possible to break free from the personality their fictional character cultivated.
From Salon
In my BR period, I also expected to fill my early retirement with home-improvement tasks, doing history-research projects, volunteering and learning.
Cut out those individual errors, shape up without the ball, see out Arundell's sin-bin period and turn the screw in the scrum and there was a narrow, theoretical route back into the game.
From BBC
This show looks at photographs of Gardner—both consciously staged and candid, and drawn from all periods of her life—to try to create a fuller picture of the woman and her intellect.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.