MONTH in a Sentence

Learn MONTH 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.

420 example sentences for MONTH, such as:

1. I'm a bit pushed for money this month.
2. December is the last month of the year.
3. They usually get together once a month.
4. Phil is coming home for a visit next month.
5. He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
month
 n.  a time unit of approximately 30 days
 n.  one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month was brought in, and the place was in a stew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  They had many friends, and for a month they carried Gerald from home to home, to suppers, dances and picnics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  "He's been gone to Louisiana this month now," said Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  But don't you fret, Miss Scarlett, it'll be over in a month and we'll have them howling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  There was never a sight of a real man except when the commissary troop under Suellen's middle-aged beau, Frank Kennedy, rode by every month to collect supplies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  But she was back at Tara a month before Ellen expected her, with no explanation of her return.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  If her visit proved as dull as those in Savannah and Charleston, she would return home in a month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter drove her to his office to get the housekeeping money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  I'll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month if all the militia of all the states went to Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  But men who expected to die within a week or a month could not wait a year before they begged to call a girl by her first name, with "Miss," of course, preceding it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  The demands of the Confederate commissary were growing heavier by the month, and hers was the task of making Tara produce.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  The rise always came, for with the increasing scarcity of necessities, prices leaped higher by the month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  For your information, I was in England, not a month ago, and I'll tell you this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  It was a month before he had news, news that raised them to the heights when they first heard it, but later created a gnawing anxiety in their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.
17  The besieged town hasn't enough food to see the month out.
18  I can't travel next month because of family obligations.
19  We are planning to go on a trip to Europe next month.
20  They usually get together once a month.
21  The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
22  Phil is coming home for a visit next month.
23  President Clinton is due to visit the country next month.
24  It is doubtful whether the patient will last out this month.
25  He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.
26  The number of people claiming unemployment benefit has risen sharply this month.
27  December is the last month of the year.
28  I'm a bit pushed for money this month.
29  The decision has been deferred by the board until next month.
30  The right side of my brain had been so severely bruised that I was comatose for a month.