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# during

«during» in Mova's school dictionary: **all through a time: «during the night»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition

### meaning for a pupil

1) During means all through a time: «during the night». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#m1)

2) During means at some point in a time: «He called during dinner». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

marks the time when something happened: during the week, during the game; at school, rules say what to do during lessons, breaks and fire drills; phrases: «during the day», «during the week», «during the holidays», «during class»

### examples

- During the week, she read 40 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x1)
- He scored 12 points during the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x2)
- During the summer, 25 birds visited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x3)
- How many did they sell during the sale? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x4)
- Please don't talk during the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x5)
- Bats sleep during the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x6)
- We visited Gran during the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x7)
- During a fire drill, walk quietly outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x8)
- During the night the wolves had eaten it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/#x9)

### note

A time marker, no operation by itself. Trap: «during each week» gives a rate to multiply by the number of weeks. «during» is followed by a noun, not a verb: «during lunch», not «during we eat».

### In the corpora

- [A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/16/)
- [Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/14/)
- [Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/15/)
- [Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/12/)
- [And a body part that is stretched or hurt during a life is never passed on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «during» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/during/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.