Sample Sentences for
stint
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stint as in:  a 6-month stint in China

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    I had a comfortable job that I preferred to a stint in Azkaban.  (source)
    stint = period of time
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    Except for a short, unhappy stint at UCLA (he dropped out after a single semester, to his father's lasting dismay), two extended visits with his parents, and a winter in San Francisco (where he insinuated himself into the company of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and the painter Maynard Dixon), Ruess would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping in the dirt, cheerfully going hungry for days at a time.  (source)
    stint = period of time (during in which someone does something)
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    The slow procession looked like some ancient, mysterious rite as partner sought out partner on the windowless stairs, and silent pairs threaded through the corridors in the flickering light of crooked, color-striped candles (the product of Turtle's stint at summer camp).  (source)
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    After a brief stint running a plastics business in Albuquerque, he and Cecy moved to his boyhood hometown, La Porte, Indiana, where they eventually took jobs at a junior high, Allen teaching science, Cecy teaching English.  (source)
    stint = period of time (during in which someone does something)
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    She'd even put in a few stints as goalie for him, until everyone else on the team begged him to go back in.  (source)
    stints = periods of time (during in which someone does something)
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    He hoped that he might be returned to the county jail after his thirty-day stint at the hospital, but instead he was returned to death row.  (source)
    stint = period of time
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    Judicial clerkships are one-year stints with federal judges.  (source)
    stints = periods of time (during in which someone does something)
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    As a result of these efforts, I endured a brief stint filling in on a night shift at a chicken processing factory (it gave me nightmares for weeks), and two days at a training session as a "home energy adviser."  (source)
    stint = period of time (during in which someone does something)
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    After stints in North Carolina, New York, Florida, Virginia, California, and a handful of other states, he returned home to southern Maryland and started work at a job that would change his life.  (source)
    stints = periods of time
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    This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939.  (source)
    stint = period of time
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    Currently, it had more than three thousand permanent members, and countless others had joined for short stints to experience the lifestyle.  (source)
    stints = period of time (during in which someone does something)
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    It was a six-year program (although he did not re-enlist after his four-year stint).†  (source)
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    His work history was filled with gaps, but she did recall stints as a truck driver, dozer operator, pulpwood cutter, painter, and brick mason's helper.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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"Jesus ate," said Reenie. "He ate all kinds of things. He didn't stint."  (source)
stint = subsist on a meager provisions
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