Word Finder - month

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A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

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July is my favourite month.

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A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

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We went on holiday for two months.

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(in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

But you have less than a month to go.

She moved here a month ago, so was unfamiliar with the area.

In less than a month in early spring our lives were totally changed and we loved it.

Her plan, while brilliant when plotted the past month, didn't seem quite so wonderful right now.

A month had passed since he had been stabbed.

We have another month to figure it out.

Yes. I plan on moving in a month or so.

She could pay it this month or put the three hundred dollars towards a one-way ticket to wherever she wanted to be when she died.

He.d only spent one night there last month before Sasha flung him to the side in favor of a demoness.

Let's see if you can make it through the month, he said and dropped the cell.

Another month and you're still defiant.

I might get a Longhorn cow in a month or so.

September is the wettest month; January the driest.

July is the hottest and January the coldest month in the year.

The two last named are still published each month.

There's nothing there newer than the first month when we were testing.

That's why I came here last month, to find a group and deal with them.

Though almost waterless, it is in fact better wooded and richer in pasture than any part of the Hamad; the sand-hills are dotted with ghada, a species of tamarisk, and other bushes, and several grasses and succulent plants - among them the adar, on which sheep are said to feed for a month without requiring water - are found in abundance in good seasons.

Arrangements were accordingly made with the Wahhabis, and on the 10th of April Ahmad Feizi Pasha left aina, ostensibly with the object of protecting the pilgrim road, and joined the Medina column by the end of the month.

At the close of the month he resigned his p ost on being elected, in spite of his youth, a deputy to the Convention by the department of Seine-et-Oise, and he began his legislative career by defending the conduct of the Commune during the massacres.

He destroys " the three shepherds " in one month, but is soon weary of his flock and the flock of him.

In May he reported to the king the pacification of Merioneth and Carnarvon, and before the end of the month Conway was surrendered to him.

Senators and deputies are inviolable in the exercise of their duties, and cannot be arrested or imprisoned during a session of Congress, including the month preceding and following the session, except in flagrante delicto.

In the month of August 1894 General Caceres was again elected to fill the office of president, but the revolutionary movement rapidly gained ground.

The "Monitor" was launched at Greenpoint, Long Island, on the 30th of January, and was turned over to the government on the 19th of the following month.

Catherine went home by land and stayed for a month in Genoa with Madonna Orietta Scotti, a noble lady of that city, at whose house Gregory had a long colloquy with her, which encouraged him to push on to Rome.

The birthday of Eumenes was regularly kept, and every month sacrifice was offered to him and games held in his honour.

On the 16th of the month Maimacterion, a long procession, headed by a trumpeter playing a warlike air, set out for the graves; wagons decked with myrtle and garlands of flowers followed, young men (who must be of free birth) carried jars of wine, milk, oil and perfumes; next came the black bull destined for the sacrifice, the rear being brought up by the archon, who wore the purple robe of the general, a naked sword in one hand, in the other an urn.

The chief festival in Bengal - sometimes termed the Christmas of Bengal - celebrates the goddess's birth in the sixth Hindu month (parts of September and October).

In the following month the chancellor of the exchequer produced his second budget.

It is particularly unfortunate that September should be the season of greatest typhoon frequency, for the earlier varieties of rice flower in that month and a heavy storm does much damage.

On the 10th he met the Prussians at Waghausel, and was completely defeated; on the 25th Prince William entered Karlsruhe; and at the end of the month the members of the provisional government, who had taken refuge at Freiburg, dispersed.

Several monthly publications had come into existence since 1681, but perhaps the first germ of the magazine is to be found in the Gentleman's Journal (1691-1694) of Peter Motteux, which, besides the news of the month, contained miscellaneous prose and poetry.

The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art (1857) and the Month (1857) were short-lived.

In the month following these events his democratic brother, Marie-Joseph, had entered the Convention.

After a devious chase of a month Hood moved across Alabama to northern Mississippi.

While sympathizing with the ideas and aims of the "Young Turkey" party, he was anxious to restrain its impatience, but the sultan's obduracy led to a coalition between the grand vizier, the war minister and Midhat Pasha, which deposed him in May 1876, and he was murdered in the following month.

Kutuzov merely shrugged his shoulders when one after another they presented projects of maneuvers to be made with those soldiers-- ill-shod, insufficiently clad, and half starved--who within a month and without fighting a battle had dwindled to half their number, and who at the best if the flight continued would have to go a greater distance than they had already traversed, before they reached the frontier.

The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected.

In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business-like seriousness--leaving home for a month, or even two, with his hunt.

She was only a month into two years old, but she was big for her age.

While I detested closing our nine month incredible relationship on so sour a note, I felt the decision was his.

It was three months' salary, though Hannah had added it to the black AmEx her fiancé paid in full every month without a second thought.

Katie pretended to listen as Hannah discussed the Paris fashion show she'd attended and the month in Monte Carlo she'd spend in January to escape the coldest weather.

Most wore trendy boots and coats, sat in designer jeans and sweaters worth a month of her salary, and wore make- up that coordinated perfectly with their expensive clothing and hair.

The simple assertion was a waterfall after a month without a drop of information about her.

In this form a large number, after being cooked or stoved in moist heat for about twenty-four hours, are piled between plates in an hydraulic press, and subjected to great pressure for a month or six weeks, during which time a slow fermentation takes place, and a considerable exudation of juice results from the severe pressure.

The average annual rainfall is about 60 in., September being the wettest month.

Early in 1848 he again returned to Arabia, avoiding the long desert journey by landing at Muwela, thence striking inland to Tebuk on the pilgrim road, and re-entering Shammar territory at the oasis of Tema, he again visited Hail; and after spending a month there travelled northwards to Kerbela and Bagdad.

Shammar was crossed without difficulty, and the party was welcomed by the amir and hospitably entertained for a month, after which they travelled northwards in company with the Persian pilgrim caravan returning to Kerbela and Bagdad.