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Sentence Examples On overcast afternoons, all alone in the drizzle, my mother, carrying a basket, would set out on a long collecting tour. Most volunteers normally spend a couple of mornings, afternoons or evenings on duty each week. The church will be open in the afternoons and on Sunday afternoon the church cafe will be serving refreshments. Several volunteers took part in the opening ceremony there, in suitable costume and a team is now beginning to work there on afternoons. If you want to work only afternoons, that is going to shape your business as well. She works afternoons so she can be home with our son before school and I can be there when he gets home. The pool is open afternoons, and weekends, with lifeguards on duty during all working hours. She added that Play Days would not be in competition with the kindergarten, which provides care in the mornings or afternoons and not all day. They worked on the project three or four afternoons a week, knocking off around five to drink beer and talk. Here his followers would gather in the mornings and afternoons for religious services. Weather conditions other than alternating early mists and warm afternoons can result in a satisfactory noble rot infection. Our more cosseted generation is more likely to spend its Saturday afternoons sipping skinny lattes in city centre coffee bars. Friday afternoons were a nightmare until a colleague let me into the secret of the computer room. He likes to have long lie-ins in the mornings, and is quite grumpy until he has his morning cup of coffee, which is usually early afternoons. The bowling rink is available for a two hour session on Friday afternoons during the indoor season. My girlfriends and I roller-skated endlessly on warm summer afternoons and occasionally we'd put up a lemonade stand. These too have been around for years, and you can still catch them on any day in the mornings and early afternoons. We had Wednesday afternoons off to play sport, which was rowing in the summer and rugby in the winter. But the airport is no longer inactive during the afternoons, as there is continuous movement of flights. The supposed twilight days of his career provided him with countless afternoons in the sun. Show More Sentences There's something quite magical about autumnal afternoons with the curtains open and the twilight encroaching. Your father's summer vacation may have involved afternoons playing sandlot baseball or dropping a fishing line into a creek. Shops were closed on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays, and few people owned a car. Potter's illustrations, the tea garden is designed to evoke the atmosphere of Edwardian summer afternoons. The walk will be suitable for all age groups and will be a pleasant afternoons activity taking in some lovely scenic views. I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out. I remember afternoons in first grade when the entire class was forced to take thirty-minute naps on blue gymnastic mats. An album for long, meandering summer afternoons, Magic and Medicine is a quirky and imaginative bundle of joy. Most afternoons he meets with businessmen to talk about investment opportunities and various projects. For a week the weather had been clear and sharp, with subfreezing lows and small melts in the afternoons. If I'm not around a telly on Wednesday afternoons, I make sure the video timer's set. But if I had so much as a tingle of buyer's remorse it has faded in the face of several joyous afternoons of camera play. I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that. Grandmother spent her afternoons with other local ladies, mostly of her age, smoking cigarettes and playing bezique. I meet up with former work colleagues on Thursday afternoons, in winter for snooker in South Bank, in summer for bowls in Rowntree Park. Their first week is likely to be made up of induction training in the mornings and gaining product knowledge on the shop floor in the afternoons. The short-lived practice of closing pubs during the afternoons could be brought back. During afternoons in the school year, when the weather was good, I hit hundreds of nine-iron shots on a football field near our home. Many of us spend weekend afternoons pushing the trolley round the supermarket or ambling through a shopping mall. Show More Sentences Sunday afternoons are not meant for siestas for these cricket lovers who play the game on a ground which is usually rented out for exhibitions. I showed up on one of those rare spring afternoons in New York when everything is blooming, and the colors, sights, and sounds intoxicating. Ballyteague GFC s campaign aimed at attracting young people out to under-age training on Saturday afternoons is now in full swing. I'm finding that in the afternoons, when I think I'm getting the munchies, a hard candy is satisfying me instead of a bag of chips. When I'm not working, I go out for lavish lunches with my friends, drink too much, and spend the afternoons trying to sober up. There's something about the tinkle of teacups or the sound of the cake tin opening that can brighten the weariest of afternoons. We'd just experienced the razzmatazz of Canadian football and third division football on cold, wet Saturday afternoons provided a stark contrast. Younger companies sponsor capture-the-flag games or afternoons of paintball tournaments. Locked in their cells most afternoons, the breeders grew restless and consequently careless in their actions. The hardest times is lazy Sunday afternoons when I want nothing more than to dive head first into a game. In the afternoons, the garden often caught the sun, and on duller days the roses danced and bobbed in the breeze. More likely, they divide their afternoons among a raft of organized activities, from baseball to dance to religious studies. Most afternoons, it's the two older players who bicker the most, like ornery retirees on a park bench. It is suitable for most age groups who enjoy a leisurely stroll, making a lovely afternoons walk for families. The Northern Alliance Radio Network will then be available world-wide on Saturday afternoons, 12-3 p.m., Central time. Joanny spent long afternoons in the studios of artists and friends of his parents, where he studied technique. Normally we go there on Saturday afternoons and sit in leisure and talk over our steak chili. In the afternoons, she taught Suzuki violin to young children, and played in the community orchestra. Mornings focus on literacy and numeracy, while afternoons are spent on humanities, science and sport. Kindly refrain from showing the following movies on Sunday afternoons, in addition to The Craft, if you please. Show More Sentences Conversely, road rage is most likely to occur on Friday afternoons, in peak travel times and in fair weather. In the afternoons Dr. Livingstone tended his garden, of which he was immoderately proud. During the last 12 years of her life, Mae West spent mornings answering fan mail and afternoons trying on hats. We spend a couple of afternoons lazily drifting along the back roads, past clapperboard farmhouses, vineyards and corn-fields. The club now allows women to play bingo on Sunday afternoons, but it still won't make us full members. Early in their lives, they often spend entire afternoons play-acting imaginary scenarios. All buses will have to follow diversion routes along Bow Lane, Ringway and Corporation Street on Saturday afternoons. I hope more craft afternoons are organised 'cause I did some good crafting. Beatrice was demure, reserved, enjoyed those tedious dinner parties of state, and seemed content to spend her afternoons bent over needlework. One pictures lazy afternoons engorged on and sticky with pulpy, overripe South Pacific fruits. In the afternoons, one can play croquet, sit amidst the blooming azaleas, nibble on some Devonshire tea, and adamantly wish for a quick death. We went out en famille in the mornings, and in the afternoons handed the children over to the care of our holiday tour operator. The one near my University served a wonderful noodle soup that gladdened the heart on dull, overcast winter afternoons. The drop-in clinic has been extremely well received and takes place on Thursday afternoons. Well, what do you wear for lying around in the afternoons eating bon bons and teasing delivery boys? I usually began the day with black tea and most afternoons enjoyed a cup of java or a latte. I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. These are the best places for whiling away lazy afternoons in amusing, light-hearted conversations with the often-quirky fellow hostel mates. Whole afternoons must whirl past in a daze at Highgrove with hundreds of people rushing about. Heading up to the top of the mountain for the afternoons finals the athletes were pummeled by high winds and dusty whirlwinds. Show More Sentences Training sessions are held at the hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons. We have a group of nurses who take it in turn weekday mornings and afternoons, also one evening a week so I can go out. The finding has led to renewed calls for British Summer Time to be used year-round to give lighter afternoons and evenings. This month the hospital began trialling a pilot scheme to give older patients a quiet window in the afternoons when they can eat their evening meal without interruption. It's so dusty and afternoons are a dead loss because of the heat. With the Easter holidays just underway, school children are looking forward to two weeks of late morning lie-ins and afternoons spent hanging out with their friends. Basil, cucumber, mangoes, the cooing of turtledoves on torrid afternoons, the screech of buses coming to a sudden halt. Our members supported several Federation events, four outings, a lunch and garden party, social afternoons and a coffee morning apart from the monthly meetings. The overwhelming atmosphere on two weekday afternoons was not of a hotbed of political tension, but of a quiet, friendly, politically unengaged mixed community. In the mornings we have lectures and in the afternoons we teach students. The problems happened during late afternoons, evenings and on Saturdays. The afternoons of Roman citizens were often spent in the thermae. On either side of the play-park was a green park where people usually walked their dogs, or went for walks on sunny afternoons, or hosted peewee practice for numerous sports. One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion. City roads are presenting a deserted look during the afternoons. During rush hour in the mornings and afternoons, Caribbean cities are dominated by metal, plastic and rubber objects, puffing hydrocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere. The cafe bar also has a terrace, and is open afternoons and evenings. I dedicated my mornings to working on my laptop and my afternoons to exercise, counterbalancing whatever overindulgence I had planned for after sunset. Penelope and Helen had, during the week, decided that my rooms were a most apt place to sojourn during the hot afternoons, and the best place to try on dresses. In the afternoons, one can visit local gardens, play croquet, sit amidst the blooming azaleas, nibble on some Devonshire tea, and adamantly wish for a quick death. Show More Sentences On afternoons and weekends you can visit nearby beaches, islands, fishing villages, hidden lagoons, reservoirs, coconut plantations, and waterfalls. Susannah soon put a woman's touch to the hotel rooms, especially the sitting room where Spurgeon led morning devotions and the Lord's Supper on Sunday afternoons. To most of the 80,000 petrolheads who will fill the stands at the Kent circuit, A1 is another reason to spend Sunday afternoons watching cars whizzing round in circles. Students in the upper grades do an internship two afternoons every week. We spent afternoons picking wild strawberries and raspberries and wildflowers, which were carefully packeted up and sent home to cheer everyone up. Overall they have crafted what is a thoroughly modern, stylish and super-smooth sound, all long drinks in late-summer afternoons and soft ocean breezes. There will be no hot afternoons where I'm pounded brown by the Aztec sun, the cool beer vanishing into my body like a drop of rain in the trackless Sahara. In the second season she spends afternoons rehearsing for a musical and buying an unlicensed gun for her clone friend. But there will be plenty of lighter fare for dozy afternoons. I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera. But in the next instant, all the other timepieces ticked on into the first of the sunny afternoons the boy will never see. Cleveland and white sage, creosote bush and brittlebush, pine and redwood, for instance, are filled with resins and release their scents on warm afternoons. As we juggled our time between morning visits and lazy afternoons in and out of piazzas and patisseries, I wondered what would have appealed to him. I always played tennis on Saturday afternoons and under normal conditions, Mum would have cooked sweet corn, salted cod or a fry-up of sausages, eggs and tomatoes. Myself and a friend would routinely spend our afternoons off from school just walking around town, between arcades and shopping malls and book and toy stores. Weekday afternoons are quieter, and you can have hours of fun trying to outstrike each other. Tall, lean Danny with the huge horsedick seated on the bar stool was a fixture Saturday afternoons. Cody proved to be a mannersome child, and he ended up most weekday afternoons with Amy, watching movies on the television. Depending on the nature of the events, they were scheduled during daytime, afternoons, evenings, or late nights. Blair worked at the shop in the afternoons and had his mornings free to write and his evenings free to socialise. Show More Sentences The packets would be posted each Friday so that his customers, working men, would receive them for their time off on Saturday afternoons. Before September 2012, Time for reflection was held on Wednesday afternoons. Normally meetings are held on Tuesday afternoons in Bute House, the official residence of the first minister. Wittgenstein's school hours were eight to twelve or one, and he had afternoons free. The rainfall is sometimes heavy and often falls in the afternoons and evenings. Undeb has helped to achieve 24 hour opening of the libraries, ensuring that Wednesday afternoons are free. All networked programming originates from Global Radio's London headquarters, including the syndicated Vodafone Big Top 40 on Sunday afternoons. During free afternoons Fisher would walk the downs, shouting to practice his command voice. During that rain falls mostly in the afternoons and intermittently during other parts of the year. The live transmission was returned to Wednesdays in September 2008, with a recorded repeat on Sunday afternoons. Horse racing events are held Thursday nights and weekend afternoons at the Jockey Club. Occasional coastal fogs on some mornings and high clouds in some afternoons and evenings can be present. These generally occur during afternoons and evenings when leftovers from Andean storms arrive from the east. We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. I spend my afternoons reading and exercising or going for walks. On Wednesday afternoons an aircraft will serve the island of Abaco, with stops in Marsh Harbour and Treasure Cay. We schedule Thursday afternoons, to be used exclusively for distance learning via Web-based courses. She admits however that had she to get more hours of sleep, she would be chirpier during late afternoons. We see ourselves hosting elegant cocktail afternoons as the British sun bears down on our friends. That's an open question best left to scientists, number theorists, and idle afternoons. Show More Sentences One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons. The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons. In the long afternoons Blake spent sketching in the Abbey, he was occasionally interrupted by boys from Westminster School, who were allowed in the Abbey. Use rainy Sunday afternoons to make your own Christmas stockings from their old clothes that no longer fit, but are too special to simply throw out. At Rangi Ruru, lucky to close for just two weeks in the aftermath of the quake, they had other schools, unable to reopen, using their premises in the afternoons for some time. Gas turbines can also be turned on and off much more rapidly than steam plants, so they can be switched on when demand for power peaks, such as on hot summer afternoons. There will be live jazz performances in the afternoons by local groups, including the Vieux Carre Jazzmen, Non Electric Band, Maine Street Jazzmen and New Orleans. On many afternoons, I read there, or did nothing, or watched the water striders skating on the surface, their feet in little depressions in the water. He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week. Often the SAT preparation is offered as a full morning immersion while the afternoons and evenings are geared towards homework and recreational activities. It meets every Thursday evening for practice and most Saturday afternoons for tournament games in the Hampshire region, and friendlies around the South of England. The station was on medium wave only until the early 80s, when it took over the Radio 2 FM frequency for a number of hours on weekend afternoons and late weekday evenings. On Wednesday afternoons, take in a bullfight, if you are so inclined. Our moods and energy levels are said to be the lowest in the afternoons. On Saturday afternoons, for a nickel, he could go to a movie matinee at such theatres as the Bluebell, the Rialto, the Photodrome or the Victoria. Daddies sand Sedges are still taking rising fish on calmer afternoons. Examples from Classical Literature I'm to be in your office in the mornings, Dr. Wilson, and anywhere I am needed in the afternoons. In the northern part of this valley I was prevented from doing any plane-table work in the afternoons of four successive days. On afternoons when the ayuntamiento was in session, the chief could never leave his patio. They were not very far from Central Park, and they went for whole afternoons into it. Ellabelle was a crackajack housekeeper and had plenty of time to lie out in the hammock and read 'Lucile' of afternoons. On those afternoons the lake was a pretty sight, zestful, alive with color. Of afternoons and evenings they played an infinitesimal game of draw poker. But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him. They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it. Though the Rector had also spent whole afternoons at the feet of that man of letters, he now failed to notice tio gori at all. There will always be something worth living for while there are shimmery afternoons. She kept a toy dog which she aired afternoons, and her kimonos were florid and numerous. But I will give you the name of the man who used to go to the tollbooth on Sunday afternoons. In every attic on the street a rakish craft flies the skull and crossbones, and roves the Spanish Main on rainy afternoons. What matters is that they have national-championship hopes, Heisman Trophy candidates and the sweetest autumn afternoons on God's green earth. On the afternoons when Coupeau felt dull, he would call on the Lorilleuxs. In the afternoons he would take a walk if the weather was nice. But he rather liked to visit the graveyard on Sunday afternoons. The advent of Rebecca had somehow infused a new spirit into these hitherto terrible afternoons. On Thursday afternoons we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges. Show More Sentences As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. Sometimes on summer afternoons she came out of the house and got into her carriage. Pontellier, and often she took her sewing and went over to sit with her in the afternoons. I've worked sometimes whole afternoons, trimming her caps, and getting her ready to go to a party. I can play from half past four to supper and after supper a little bit and Saturday afternoons. Not one in a hundred would weep at losing a relation they had just seen twice, for two afternoons. If you're looking for some activities to wile away the sunny afternoons, why not dip into The Alcoves, a funky and laid back private retreat? In the wooded places are many little cloistered nooks, quiet places where lovers go to sit on Sunday afternoons. Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short. They had them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, since on Saturday afternoons they had to go to a service in the Cathedral. The late afternoons and evenings Mrs. Arbuthnot devoted to Bridge. Several afternoons Pablo and the sick man discussed past events. The young man was engaged to be married to the young lady, and they sometimes called upon Margaret, driving over of afternoons in a buggy. Athelny entered into his humour, and on Sunday afternoons they made out elaborate itineraries so that Philip should miss nothing that was noteworthy. The moisture dripped from the same ledge in the wall on to the sodden leaves beneath, as it had done all through the afternoons of all those past Novembers. Often, of pleasant afternoons, the two would drink their black coffee, seated upon the stone-flagged portico whose canopy was the blue sky of Louisiana. Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun. All those fall afternoons were the same, but I never got used to them. There was an unwholesome little arbour in one dark corner, much frequented by the larger black slug, where I used to pass glorious afternoons making plans. It was the knot of wordy socialists and working-class philosophers that held forth in the City Hall Park on warm afternoons that was responsible for the great discovery. Show More Sentences They walked about the streets and the wooded hills, they drove in cabs, they boated on the river, they sipped beer and coffee, afternoons, in the Schloss gardens. I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller. On Wednesday and Saturday afternoons particularly you could scarcely look skyward for a quarter of an hour without discovering a balloon somewhere. Find more words! 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