9 example sentences using period.
Period used in a sentence
Period in a sentence as a noun
"There are a only couple YC companies I wouldn't want to work for, period.
"But if you're asking people to make a sacrifice you're not willing to make yourself, you're a bad leader, period.
And no I didn't burn them I charged my regular rate, but I did work about 18 hours on it in a 24 hour period.
I really, really like Google, but I don't see this situation as being stable over a period of decades.
Also, during a decent period of time, mercantilism became a big factor in economic thinking.
However, this system has the potential to silence a lot of high quality comments on any threads that aren't on the front-page for an extended period of time.
Even in the period leading up to the 1960s, the EB was a staple in most every western home where parents valued education and academic achievement for their kids.
Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.
During the same period, they religiously enforced export controls that classified any encryption code, including simple hash functions, as munitions.
Period definitions
an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
See also: menstruation menses menstruum catamenia flow