How to Use fortnight in a Sentence

fortnight

noun
  • Most opted for a four-day week, while five chose a nine-day fortnight.
    — Sam Hudson, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
  • Just a fortnight later and the two sides will go head-to-head once again.
    — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Consumers no longer apply self-tan to fake a fortnight in the sun.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • A bit like the one a fortnight ago, and the one a week before that too, and the couple last month.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • For the second time in a fortnight, the danger was backed up with results.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • If the club had not found a buyer within a fortnight, it too would have been expelled.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The market has, in fact, been building for nearly a fortnight.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Swiatek, for the most part, just hasn't let her opponents breathe during the fortnight.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Colton scored four of them to help an 0-4 start turn into a 4-4 fortnight.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Even Lionel Messi will not have known a fortnight quite like it.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • 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 struggle to lift another big one over five sets and a fortnight is a tough ask on current form.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The Newcastle head coach will not expect the same in a fortnight.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Wider Yachts will unveil its first catamaran in less than a fortnight.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
  • Throughout the fortnight, Nadal had never been in any sort of trouble.
    — Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The past fortnight has already seen Barça complete two new transfers.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • Stokes even thought the tumultuous events of the last fortnight may have brought captain and coach closer.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Andy Murray, his longtime rival and friend, will coach him through the fortnight.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Ice hockey, figure skating, alpine skiing and more events will take place over the course of the fortnight.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Our team of product reviewers took home a couple of bottles and tried them out for a fortnight.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now that the tournament is less than a fortnight away, robots have already hit the ground for practice.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But this fortnight had several stories that might modify your day-to-day.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Every fortnight there’s a new Next Big Thing, your new favorite band.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The Ninth is running a bespoke Lanson menu through the fortnight.
    — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • It’s been a fortnight since the Fergusons brought Cheddar home.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022

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