duration

In a sentence

Six example sentences with duration, each labelled with its topic.

• A whole note gets four beats, and a conductor's job is holding the orchestra to that duration exactly.

  Music

• Researchers compared a five-day course with a ten-day one and found the shorter duration cleared the infection just as often.

  Medicine

• The speed boost lists a duration of twelve seconds, long enough to cross the bridge before the guards reset.

  Gaming

• The coach cares less about pace than duration, and a beginner's first goal is simply running for thirty minutes.

  Fitness

• The ferry crossing has a duration of eleven hours, so most passengers book a cabin rather than a reclining seat.

  Travel

• The lease fixes the duration of the tenancy at five years, with rent reviewed once at the halfway point.

  Law

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains duration. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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