What is "weekends"

Usage examples of "weekends".

Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.

Hamburg that fall, he began visiting Senguen in Greifswald on weekends, until she moved to the German city of Bochum one year later to enroll in dental school.

He mistrusted this salvage business Axel had got involved with, a gang of Brooklynites who after work and on weekends stripped abandoned houses and tenements of copper and lead piping and whatever else of value they could find, under contract to the demolition men.

But he also had a friendly, low-key manner, came home and traveled his district on most weekends, and had a fabulous casework operation, helping little towns get water and sewer grants and securing government benefits for constituents, often from programs he had voted to slash back in Washington.

The Casino in Deauville is open at weekends in winter, but not on a Monday.

June tried to explain that on weekends the doctors often got up on the floor later than usual.

It was always a foregone conclusion that I would live here most of the time, that my parents would come for weekends when they could, spend the summer months and special holidays at the house.

The Lindberghs began staying at the nearly completed Hopewell house on weekends, returning to the Morrow compound fifty miles away on Monday mornings.

Sometimes they listened to tapes together, to what was left of their weekends on the Island or by the reed-lined Kashubian lakes, in a chorus or solo: ominous toad calls.

Weekends there is one hell of a lot of traffic in the area of the Meadows Center, guided tours and indoctrination, and movies about the Eternal Church and all that, to say nothing of the services and the panel shows and those little carnival things they put on for the kids.

On weekends he would be seen paying out in the pubs around East London and Essex with a smile and his self-deprecating wit.

The first two days his face got sandpapery the way it always did on weekends.

As a kid, he had nearly grown gills, catching tropicals for spending money in high school, or going spearfishing on long weekends in the Keys.

Reservations are recommended at least a day in advance on weekdays, and at least a week in advance on weekends, but walk-ins are welcome too.

I imagine that acquain tances of our widows merely think how nice that Maude or Cynthia keeps so busy--whist, Tuesday after work, Thursday e ,,- , y noons, committee ity on weekends.