during
Use During in a sentence
ɪŋ, ˈdyʊər-Dictionary.com Unabridged
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —prep | |
| 1. | concurrently with (some other activity): kindly don't sleep during my lectures! |
| 2. | within the limit of (a period of time): during the day |
| [C14: from duren to last, ultimately from Latin dūrāre to last] | |
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Word Origin & History
during
late 14c., prp. of obsolete verb duren "to last, endure" (late 13c.), from O.Fr. durer, from L. durare "endure." During the day really is "while the day endures," and the usage is a transference into Eng. of a L. ablative absolute.
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Example sentences
Yes, science, of which there is plenty to be had during any sporting event.
During activity the granular zone gradually diminishes in size, and when exhausted is only seen as a small area next to the lumen.
Brain scans of a speaker and listener showed their neural activity synchronizing during storytelling.
In fact, both are known to decrease during stepped-up activity, including exercise.
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