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How to use fortnight in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Fortnight means a period of 2 weeks. Example: “The pickers are paid by the fortnight by the American bushel.”

Examples of fortnight by meaning

nounA period of 2 weeks.

  • On being kicked the girl fell desperately in love with Henri, and for a fortnight they lived together and spent a thousand francs of Henri's money.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […]...
  • The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2025
  • The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.2025 December 12, Tobi Thomas, Denis Campbell, “NHS bracing for worst ever winter crisis in next fortnight amid rising flu cases”, in The...

More sentences with fortnight

  • The pickers are paid by the fortnight by the American bushel.From the entry by
  • On the morning of Sunday was fortnight before Christmas: on the morning of the Sunday that was two weeks before the Sunday prior to Christmas.From the entry be
  • The rail industry has survived the first fortnight of the UK's COVID-19 crisis.2020 April 8, Matt Lovering, “An opportunity for the rail industry to deliver major change”, in Rail, page 46. From the entry skeleton
  • Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States…. From the entry gab
  • I'll get her to come and get a script off you in, say, a fortnight?2019, Christopher Beanland, The Wall in the Head, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry get off
  • Within a fortnight of their arrival 'a startling outburst' of venereal disease occurred among the troops.2008, Peter Rees, “The Prelude”, in The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914–1918, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN; The Other Anzacs…. From the entry venereal
  • And it turned up in the Guardian within the last fortnight, too, IIRC.2004 July 2, Dr Ivan D. Reid, “Clue that raises a smile”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet). From the entry scheisse
  • It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback.2001 September, Michael Knisley, “The Braves' last stand”, in Sporting News, volume 225, number 36, page 12. From the entry forever
  • We were coming up to the neap, or low, tide of the fortnight.1969, Delbert A. Young, Last Voyage of the Unicorn, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., →OCLC, page 93. From the entry springtide
  • Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it.1936, John Middleton Murry, The autobiography of John Middleton Murry: between two worlds. From the entry nohowish
  • A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N.1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 26 Jul 2014. From the entry one-horse race
  • If I remembered the contact information of the tamalero who delivers to my office every fortnight, I’d print that, too.2020 March 18, James Papp, “Adapt, be mindful of others, and we’ll get through this”, in The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif., page 3B…. From the entry tamalero
  • If your babies are totally breastfed, they may poo anything from fifteen times a day to once a fortnight.2013, Jan Murray, Twins & More, page 135. From the entry pooer
  • He's not due from Virginia for another fortnight.”2013, Leif Herrgesell, Indians, Rogues and Giants. From the entry queersome
  • At Gatteville the consumpt of coal during the first fortnight reached nearly 9 tons against an estimate of tons.2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry consumpt
  • The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.2010 September 7, “By the skin of her teeth”, in The Economist. From the entry culminate
  • Naturally, for a Sydney tabloid, the Daily Tele produced the most copy: 20 print articles over the fortnight and 70 online pieces.2026 March 5, Amanda Meade, “Pauline Hanson’s excited announcement about Karl Stefanovic prompts swift clarification”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry Daily Tele
  • For the last fortnight, Trump has presented himself to the world as the caricature of the ugly American: loud, boorish and ill-informed.2017 June 2, Dana Milbank, “Trump, the caricature of the ugly American, demeans us all”, in Washington Post, retrieved 17 Jul 2017. From the entry Ugly American
  • Over the past fortnight, in the background of the Sussex soap opera, it has often felt as though Britain has been enjoying what you might call a wokelash.2020 January 21, Hugo Rifkind, “We're wrong to shout down cries of racism”, in The Times, London, page 23. From the entry wokelash
  • In the past fortnight, following a fresh outbreak of xenophobic violence in Durban, President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned the “violence against foreign nationals in South Africa”, without mentioning the x-word.2019 April 7, “Editorial: Xenophobia – Call it by its name”, in City Press. From the entry x-word

Meaning of fortnight

  1. noun A period of 2 weeks.

Full definition of fortnight

Questions about fortnight in a sentence

How do you use fortnight in a sentence?
Fortnight is used as a noun. For example: “The pickers are paid by the fortnight by the American bushel.”
What is a short sentence with fortnight?
“He's not due from Virginia for another fortnight.””
What does fortnight mean?
Fortnight means a period of 2 weeks.

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