How to use "often" in a sentence

He often led rescue operations to find climbers lost in the mountains

So why do you often stand on your head -

'I don't hear from her very often,' she said

Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing

It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, unequal

People often change their minds, don't you think, Mr Sampson?'

I see him so often that my uncle calls him my shadow.'

On his way to work at Spitalfields market he often checked the passage because strangers sometimes came in

We know that witnesses often make small errors in time, so the man Mrs Darrell saw was very probably the murderer, and he attacked Annie at approximately 5.30 a.m

She later changed this to a quiet cry of 'Oh! Murder!' Mrs Prater said she went back to sleep; she often heard cries of murder in the court.

However, today we know that serial killers do not often commit suicide

He was secretive and often disappeared into dark little rented rooms around the poor quarters of London

He often gave money to beggars, which was unwise, because he soon became known in the area as 'the beggar who gives money to beggars'.

His grandfather often tried to send him money, but Marius always returned it

Enjolras had often seen the couple, too.

Leblanc had begun to suspect what was happening because often, when Marius appeared, he got to his feet and walked away, taking his daughter with him

She remembered the handsome young man she had seen so often in the Luxembourg Gardens

Neither could he understand the concept of freedom of speech, and he often sent soldiers into the streets to attack people who were making public protests.

I wouldn't come often or stay very long

"Yes." Sala loved painting, but the paints were expensive, so it was something she couldn't do very often.

With five of them sharing, an hour cost just one energy unit each, so they did this often

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

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

This world, the city with its wrist chips and simulators, was the only one they knew, but Gran often talked about life before the Oil Wars - how they used to walk freely in the forests, grow flowers and fruit, sing songs around fires on the beach, and travel to wonderful places

She often went out alone like that.'

'Favell often stayed with Rebecca down at the cottage

Someone had seen it all happen - someone who was often down there in the bay - Ben.

'He often slept on the beach

The roar of conversation grew louder as the sounds ticked away, and the quality of the roar became more frenetic, gayer, and more often punctuated with laughter.

They pulled the handles for hours at a time, often making a twenty-dollar bill last a long afternoon

The duchesses, who for the most part were widows and spinsters, often ate lunch and dinner together

It was no surprise that women players tipped him more often and more generously than did men.

He or she - it happens to women nearly as often as men

The view of the legendary boulevard was wasted on Tina; she didn't often make use of it

Although winter days in the desert were often as warm as springtime elsewhere, winter nights were always cool, sometimes downright bitter

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

Yet numerous members of the family had secretly rendered service - some of it dirty - to the FBI, the CIA, and various other intelligence and police agencies, often the very same organizations that they publicly criticized and reviled

Although he spent more than half his time working in his Las Vegas office, he often had reason to fly to far points at the spur of the moment: Reno, Elko, even out of the state to Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah

His time was enormously valuable to the country; his work was sensitive and often-required urgent decisions based upon first-hand examination of information to be found only in distant places

As he sat in the dimly lighted cabin of the fan-jet and watched the clouds racing below, Alexander wondered what his father and his uncles would say if they knew that his service to his country had often required him to issue kill orders

'He did not want any friends,' John Openshaw went on, 'and he often drank a lot

He often works there late at night..

I often wondered why.'

The excitement rose, then Miss Marple said, 'Bad girl! If you make things up, people often believe them, and sometimes that leads to problems.'

'Dear Vicar,' said Miss Marple, 'careless talk is often unkind, but it is also often true.'

When I had finished she said, 'I know that I am very often rather stupid, but I really do not understand your point

'One often hears shots in the woods

You know the word because you've seen it so often before

And then some of the old ladies often come in.'

We - we often met in the woods afterwards.'

I used my hands to keep it moving, down the river towards Walton, going very slowly and often looking behind me

Harris often burnt his fingers

She has often wished to drive very near to the end of the sands until the tyres of the car touched the water

After that, I thought about Walter often, especially on the nights when Percival left me alone and went to parties with the people from the opera house.'

During that time, I thought often of Anne Catherick

She often spoke about the freedom of the slaves and women's rights

The third and fourth waves of feminism, from the 1990s until today, have often been about women's fight against sexual harassment and assault, and the fight to be "themselves"

Women often lived in very small rooms

They are often paid less, and sexism and sexual harassment at work are a problem every day

This is often because families are poor