fortnights
- plural of fortnight.
Example Sentences
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Shefte: Indeed, the first two fortnights are dark and full of terrors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
WIMBLEDON, England — For all the days and fortnights and years of the early 2010s, the horizon didn’t seem to hold in store the kind of impressionist painting of the Thursday that Venus Williams just had.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
I’ll get used to it, probably in the next few fortnights or so.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016
“Eleven-day fortnights, 16-hour days, pages and pages of dialogue.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2016
As regards all creatures that have taken birth, neither years, nor months, nor fortnights, nor days, nor nights, that have once passed, do ever return.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
