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UK
/ˈiːv/
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[ US /ˈiv/ ]
[ US /ˈiv/ ]
NOUN
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the day before
he always arrives on the eve of her departure -
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
he enjoyed the evening light across the lake -
the period immediately before something
on the eve of the French Revolution
How To Use eve In A Sentence
- He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
- Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo