Word Finder - days

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Any period of 24 hours.

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I've been here for two days and a bit.

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A period from midnight to the following midnight.

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The day begins at midnight.

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Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

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A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

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The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

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I worked two days last week.

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Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

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day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.

synonyms

• daylight
• upsun

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A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

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Every dog has its day.

synonyms

• epoch
• era

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A period of contention of a day or less.

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The day belonged to the Allies.

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A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

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Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.

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To spend a day (in a place).

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A particular time or period of vague extent.

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Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.

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Life.

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That's how he ended his days.

We have some cold days, but mostly it is warm.

The next few days ran together.

Over the next few days she thought about the job several times with mixed feelings.

These happy days did not last long.

For three days he lay in his strange prison.

For the next three days the clinic would be closed.

He had now been for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father's house.

Brenda was given a few days off and the dust settled.

I wondered if, with his days off, he might be hitting the bottle early.

In those days, people had not learned to be kind to their enemies.

Four more days and she would go back to the ranch.

It had been several days since I'd spoken to them.

He had seen considerable of life in the cities in his younger days, and knew that this regal palace was no place for him.

Martha and baby Claire were released from the hospital after two days and both continued to prosper.

I've seen you around a lot the past couple of days.

He turned and made his way through the doors he suddenly remembered traversing many times the past few days.

It's been a rough few days.

On Friday morning Bird Song's full complement of guests were treated to the usual bounty of Cynthia's baking, but with less zip and smiles than most days.

You said something similar two days ago, before I became the mate of the Dark One.

His eyes went back to the girl who had been human just a few days ago.

She had to make it only a few more days.

She wished she'd realized that a few days earlier, before it was too late to matter.

I've been trying to figure him out for the past few days and have no clue.

How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?

The Deidre he spent the night with and the Deidre who went to see Darkyn four days ago were very different.

There were days when you hated the fact you did love her, and there were days when she almost walked away from you for good, because she hated that she couldn't control how she felt, Deidre continued.

In two days your deal with Past-Death is up.

There were days when she wished she was more like him, capable of great evil.

Several days ago, she would have jumped at the chance.

She'd spent five days with him, silently fighting him, only to realize there was nowhere else to go.

The sixty days came and went but Janet never returned, leaving jail, a few more bad checks, and Colorado for parts unknown.

It seems more like days than hours.

That's what a hundred and seventeen days on the road does to you!

I won't get this smell out of the office for days.

The couple was newly married, Bird Song still under construction, and with Fred out of town, they stole two days on a camping honeymoon.

In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

Nowadays, you'd be scared someone would kidnap a child but in the old days, no one ever thought of that stuff.

There was the Friday meeting with the town ladies— just two days away—and Dean knew he should be gathering thoughts and notes but his mind was too scattered to construct a coherent speech.

If they were unsecured for a few days anyone could have pinched them.

My mother left when I was nine days old.

He and Paul died in the same hospital, three days apart.

Even on this holiday, one of the busiest days of the year, traffic remained modest by urban standards.

After what seemed even longer than the Dean's first trip to the mine just two days earlier, they emerged into the basin where the valley floor was a sea of wildflowers.

The mine was sealed, a new metal door and padlock in place where the gaping opening had welcomed the Deans two days before.

The way was totally familiar— twice today, three times in as many days.

Speeding on our highways— Mr. Dean knows about that first-hand—my competent deputy arrested him for doing just that a few days ago.

I thought I might camp there—spend a couple of days just thinking and dreaming.

Fitzgerald still had not reported to Denver but it was now thought he'd taken a few days of leave to sort things out.

No one worked the Lucky Pup in those days.

In the days that followed, the shooting was ruled justified and Lydia Larkin was cleared of any wrongdoing.