How to use "weekends" in a sentence

He usually killed at weekends, so he was employed, perhaps as a butcher

It was you who went away for weekends with your girlfriends

And those bed-hopping weekends broke my heart, Michael, broke my heart - which is what you hoped to do, so that was all right with you

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"