YEAR in a Sentence

Learn YEAR 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 YEAR, such as:

1. Her husband swelted one year ago.
2. August was almost tropical this year.
3. It happened almost exactly a year ago.
4. We'll have a fresh start for the year ahead.
5. His son was a junkie, the kid OD'd a year ago.

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 Meanings and Examples of YEAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
year
 n.  a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  And after that fall he had right here last year when he broke his knee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  This will negatively affect the result over the first half of the year.
17  I've developed a taste for African music since my trip last year to Nigeria.
18  He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
19  After a year without defeat, the team now reigns supreme as the finest in the country.
20  They had ensured the plumbing was overhauled a year ago.
21  Her husband swelted one year ago.
22  His son was a junkie, the kid OD'd a year ago.
23  It happened almost exactly a year ago.
24  We'll have a fresh start for the year ahead.
25  Jiao Zi looks like gold coin, implying a wealthy year ahead.
26  Best of luck in the year ahead in your business.
27  Almost three in four clinics say they face closure by the end of the year.
28  August was almost tropical this year.
29  Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoted to manager after a year.
30  The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to announce tax cuts in this year's budget.