PERIODICAL in a Sentence

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1. These reunions were sometimes periodical.
2. Their popularity waned during that period.
3. There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
4. Church and State were not easily separable in this period.
5. Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERIODICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
periodical
 n.  publication that appears at fixed intervals
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  These reunions were sometimes periodical.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
2  These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac who lent and to Thenardier who received them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
3  On the left was an old abandoned mill, with its motionless wings, from the ruins of which an owl threw out its shrill, periodical, and monotonous cry.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
4  And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
5  Wherefore the necessity for his periodical visits to the upper world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
6  There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things straight.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
7  Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  It was a source of great satisfaction to him, he said--and, he was sure, to all others present--to feel that a long period of mistrust and misunderstanding had now come to an end.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
10  He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
11  These covered a period of many years, but I observed that the entries ceased nearly a year ago and quite abruptly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
12  Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets; and, on all occasions during the period of betrothal, took a manufacturing aspect.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
13  Office-hours were over: and at that period of the day, in warm weather, she usually embellished with her genteel presence, a managerial board-room over the public office.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
14  Yet it was remarkable that she sat as still as ever the amiable woman in ambuscade had seen her sit, at any period in her life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
15  Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
16  Ladder ladder are never used to feet, it just makes people 's feet for a period of time, in order to let a foot to go on board.
17  She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.
18  The Chinese political system has evolved over a long period of time.
19  Church and State were not easily separable in this period.
20  They've set up a plan whereby you can spread the cost over a period.
21  These courses cover a twelve-week period and are organised into three four-week modules.
22  They moved in on a large amount of cultural relics during the period of the Second World War.
23  Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
24  It is hoped that the current period of stability under the leadership of its Liberal Democrat mayor will help.
25  There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
26  He will remain head of state during the period of transition to democracy.
27  Their popularity waned during that period.
28  An interim government was set up for the period before the country's first free election.
29  The vice-president took power in the interim period before the election.
30  This period provided a favourable environment for the spread of communism.