period

There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’

My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.

When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.

This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.

I have math class in second period.

Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.

They won in the first overtime period.

Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.

Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.

The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.

These fossils are from the Jurassic period.

Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.

As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]