How to use "during" in a sentence

He and his men stole horses and hid from the law during the last years of the nineteenth century.

Clouds at night are good because they trap the day's heat in the canyon, but clouds during the day are bad because the sun doesn't warm the air

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented

The bars of his window had been broken during the night

To avoid being seen, he never went out during the day

A long argument followed, during which each of the married men tried to persuade the others to go

Neither man spoke during the journey

"You think that this man enters your premises? That he enters your cottage during the night?"

She drugs him with sleeping pills during dinner.

Sala and Cham live in an enormous overcrowded city that they are forbidden to leave, for their own protection: the world outside the city was contaminated during the wars.

Her back was often painful from when she'd been injured during the Oil Wars, so she almost never left the apartment these days.

Or she would suddenly tell them all one of her memories: of growing up with Eston or their suffering during the Oil Wars.

We all got involved, during the war

I did not look at Maxim during lunch

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

On four or five occasions during the past two weeks, she had taken the pistol from the nightstand and searched the place, room by room, but she hadn't found anyone

That was how it had been during the last months of their life together

She took time off to carry and give birth to Danny, then to spend uninterrupted days with him during his first few months of life

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

She'd thought he had regained his perspective during the last few months, but evidently not.

She usually worked during the day, not at night

Besides, if it was you who wrote on the chalkboard and smashed things in the boy's room, then it was also you who came in here during the night and programmed the hotel computer to spew out that stuff about Danny

They wanted to have a little fun during the evening that lay ahead, and now they began putting themselves in the mood for it.

Of course, during the first of those two years, she'd still been married to Michael and had felt compelled to remain faithful to him, even though a separation and then a divorce had been in the works, and even though he had not felt constrained by any similar moral sense

He'd had other women in this bed during the past two years, and a few had stayed the night, but not one of those other lovers had made him feel content merely by the fact of her presence, as Tina did

It rang three more times during the ten seconds that she took to reach the front door.

She was filled with a new dread, a fear greater than the one that had burned within her during the past few hours

"The temperature's dropped thirty-five degrees in there during the past minute and a half," Zachariah said worriedly

"As there always is during these cold snaps," Dombey said

Never during the day

That's something a lot of us do during the winter

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

He didn't like the black Americans, so during the Civil War he fought against the men from the North, and with those from the South

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

She was allowed to go into the garden during certain hours of the day, and had been given a little square where she could grow flowers

I saw little of him during the next few weeks

Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know that even in the middle of the day, in its warmest areas, the temperature is lower than during our coldest winter

He told me that during the night the Martians had been surrounded by soldiers and that field-guns were expected.

My wife was strangely silent during the drive, and seemed very worried

She had been growing increasingly upset and depressed during the two days' journey

We could only wait and be bored during those two days.

A young Martian, we now know, was born on Earth during the war, and it was found growing out of the body of its parent, just like some young plants.

But afterwards, during the second day, I was able to consider our position clearly

'"So," I said, "this is where you went during the night?"

He woke me up about twelve times during the night

After leaving school, Rigoberta worked against human rights crimes by Guatemalan soldiers from 1960 to 1996, during a war in the country

But, during these times, countries like China, Egypt and Iran had feminist movements, too

In a letter to her husband, George Putnam, during her last flight, she showed how brave she was

Her parents worked on a farm, and her father was killed during World War Two

In June 2018, the Azadi Stadium's doors were opened to women and men during the last two Iran games at the 2018 World Cup.