How to use "period" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "period" in popular movie and book plots

  • The MP enjoys a brief period of sexual bliss, meeting Anna in various European cities and having sex with her in unlikely places.  - Damage (Hart novel)
  • As the first to "awaken", Leonard is also the first to demonstrate the limited duration of this period of "awakening".  - Awakenings
  • However, by the time period in which the series is set, the Earth and Moon seem to have settled into a new balance.  - Thundarr the Barbarian
  • Thisbe, after a brief period of mourning, stabs herself with the same sword.  - Pyramus and Thisbe
  • He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel.  - Hold Back the Dawn
  • His mind is critically damaged, however, and he has to stay in the hospital for an undefined period of time.  - Shock Corridor
  • The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—around the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.  - Liza of Lambeth
  • Later at school, during her period game of tag, Harriet loses her notebook.  - Harriet the Spy
  • The novel is set in the period between late 1925 and late 1927.  - Dodsworth (novel)
  • Once the period of deep mourning ends, they will marry.  - Emma (novel)
  • Part One follows several different people over the same period of several days.  - The Queen of the Damned
  • One evening, Wilma visits Homer and tells him that her parents want her to leave Boone City for an extended period to try to forget him.  - The Best Years of Our Lives
  • During this period Forrest ends up meeting President Nixon and accidentally reveals the Watergate scandal.  - Forrest Gump
  • Over a period of few days the planet appears to consume the Moon.  - The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
  • The vehicle is capable of time travel between any time period without first having to travel to the End of Time.  - Chrono Trigger
  • The five seasons of the series each correspond to one fictional sequential year in the period 2258–2262.  - Babylon 5

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