How to Use a week in a Sentence
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Change your sheets once a week.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
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Brush or wash pets once a week.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
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This will go on for a week or so.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
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Your sheets should be swapped or washed once a week.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
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Same old 8 to 5, five days a week.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
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All three are near their all-time highs set a week ago.
—Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
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For a week, no one knew if the dog was dead or alive.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2026
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Snyder now works four days a week.
—Janet W. Lee, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026
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Mopping should be done once a week.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t a week of either/or.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
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This takes place seven days a week.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
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For a week or so in March, life could seem dark.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
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Doing eight shows a week is a lot on the throat.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2025
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They have been detained for more than a week.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
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Mendoza lost two first-place votes from a week ago.
—Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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Playing three games in a week’s time didn’t help.
—Pj Green april 5, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2026
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Halloween, at last check, is still more than a week away.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Coral spawn just once a year, about a week after the full moon.
—John Otis, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
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That’s $150 a week in costs just for his truck!
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
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This used to take at least a week, but what follows will take months.
—Jonas Barck, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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This was a week of debuts at the houses.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
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This was a week for razzle-dazzle in late night.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
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Styles retiring in just over a week feels too abrupt.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Amorim had long wanted a week like this.
—Mark Critchley, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
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An hour each weekday is better than five hours once a week.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
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Make the olive salad in this recipe up to a week in advance.
—Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
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The two were detained for over a week this past winter.
—Frankie McLister, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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Too bad for her that her best look so far is on a week she’s not being judged.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
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The hospital stay for open heart surgery is longer, around a week.
—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
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For years, the ex-football player came in once or twice a week.
—Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 July 2026
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