Sentence examples for was period from inspiring English sources
noun
A length of time.
- There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
"Hey, I told you it was period.
"These guys were doing some of the hardest firefighting there was, period.
Frears' most recent film was period comedy Florence Foster Jenkins, which starred Meryl Streep as a socialite with ambitions to sing.
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel (whose last movie was period romance A Royal Affair) looks a bracingly unconventional choice to tackle King's bracingly weird series.
Mr. Medak was immediately impressed by Mr. Dancy, partly because of his look, which he thought was period but also, yes, "very modern".
Most of the furniture was period; the beds had been made, the tables set -- in this case, with dishes that I recognized as American Depression glass from the 1930's.
Then it was: "Periods of rain".
Part of it is period parody.
'Most mob dramas are period pieces.
It tends to have been period works.
