How to Use during in a Sentence

during

preposition

• He worked in the field during most of the day.
• We got along well during the trip.
• The fire alarm went off during the ceremony.
• She swims every day during the summer.
• During the interview, they asked about my previous jobs.
• The pic takes place at a mansion in the burbs during the winter.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
• The blue high-beam light glares out like a laser during night driving.
  — Pete Lyons, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
• There were people on the street during this attack through the air.
  — ABC News, 9 June 2024
• One of the fires was caused by a tree limb that fell onto an SDG&E line during high winds.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2024
• The teen grew to love wrestling during his freshman year and was known to make others laugh.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
• The old Sandusky Bay Bridge is a hot spot for the catfish crowds both during the day and after dark.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 7 July 2022
• Miller had two turnovers during that span, then missed a three-pointer.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2023
• That tradition does not take a break, even during the draft.
  — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024
• Two members who joined the guild during that time fell in love, got married, and now have a child.
  — Cameron Koch, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2024
• And what's happening to the car during that time can have a big impact.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022
• In 2008, the baton was dropped during the exchange between Doc Patton and Tyson Gay in the heats.
  — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The news regarding this case comes during an uptick in monkepox cases around the world and in the U.S.
  — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2022
• This year's Banned Books Week comes as a new report shows that more than 1,600 books were banned during the last school year.
  — Bydeena Zaru, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2022
• Testers who use this rave about it during their baby's first few years.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• Hoffman, a Fields client since the 1970s, became choked up during his speech.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 Oct. 2022
• With its diverse array of restaurants and cuisines, there is a lot to choose from during the week-long event.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2023
• And there are no RMDs from a Roth account during your lifetime.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Amhara settlers first moved en masse to Oromia in the 1980s during a famine in northern Ethiopia.
  — Cara Anna, ajc, 14 Dec. 2022
• Netflix has released a slew of photos that take us behind-the-scenes during the past year on the set of Stranger Things 5.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
• Biden was attempting to give her a shoutout during his speech.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Watch the video to learn what to do with outdoor furniture during the winter.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• Throw it over a sleeveless dress during these breezy end-of-summer nights and pair it with jeans and T-shirt come fall.
  — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
• Some of these films were born during the pandemic and yes, there is this melancholy to them.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 May 2023
• Yet Gurr stresses that topic rarely came up during his time at Disney.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
• Mahdi is the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes its way through prisoners who ran out of appeals during an unintended 13-year pause on executions in the state.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025