How to Use fortnight in a Sentence

fortnight

noun

• But just three days into the fortnight, the men ranked Nos.
  — Howard Fendrich, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2019
• Just a fortnight later and the two sides will go head-to-head once again.
  — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• In the past fortnight, hope has grown manifold in the field.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
• The album will arrive April 6 — in less than a fortnight!
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• He’s won his past 18 sets, every one since dropping his first of the fortnight.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
• Frank drove Denis to the library in town every fortnight and did his best to help.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The House has gone on a two-week break; that fortnight might see changes on the frontlines that Ukraine would not have dreamed of just six months ago.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• Swiatek, for the most part, just hasn't let her opponents breathe during the fortnight.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• But as the defining fortnight began, Johnson ran onto the field against the Rams in Week 17.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• If the club had not found a buyer within a fortnight, it too would have been expelled.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Me Home was their most streamed through the last fortnight with a 99% boost in total consumption.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2020
• The market has, in fact, been building for nearly a fortnight.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
• Throughout the fortnight, Nadal had never been in any sort of trouble.
  — Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2019
• There is a tally bellow that adds up to 14, which could refer to a fortnight, which is two weeks.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• James Bonham - dispatched by Travis more than a fortnight ago with a missive to Col.
  — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
• Every fortnight there’s a new Next Big Thing, your new favorite band.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Within a fortnight, the app clocked 26.4 million downloads in the country.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 25 Feb. 2021
• When Paris was awarded the 2024 Olympics a half-dozen years ago, the world was looking forward to an enchanting fortnight in the City of Light.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• It’s been a fortnight since the Fergusons brought Cheddar home.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
• Advertisement Then came the ball off the fingertips of Butler that hung in the air for, what, a fortnight?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The same story played out in Kolkata, the capital city of the eastern state of West Bengal, a fortnight later.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
• Djokovic has only dropped one set throughout the fortnight, in the opening round against British wild card Jack Draper.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• During the first fortnight of November, the Nifty bank index rose 2.6%.
  — Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
• Two of those wins came in the space of a fortnight following the enforced break due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Shane O'Donoghue and Ben Morse, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
• Some chapters cover a day, some only an hour; others might span a fortnight, a month, half a year.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 1 Aug. 2017
• The aquatic weed reproduces so rapidly that a colony of plants can double its biomass in less than a fortnight.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020
• Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes are hugging like it’s been more than a fortnight!
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• But thanks to the realignment calendar, Schnell could earn medals for two conferences during her fortnight in Paris.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024