Example sentences for: lasted

How can you use “lasted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It resumed at 9:37 as an air threat conference call,* which lasted more than eight hours.

  • The work stoppage lasted eight weeks, cost GM $12 billion in sales (the worst company loss ever caused by a strike), cost UAW members $1 billion in lost pay, and slowed U.S. second-quarter economic growth by an estimated half percentage point.

  • Peace lasted for the rest of the century and the country made great economic strides as a province of the Habsburg empire.

  • Madrid remained in Republican hands for most of the war, but the government was evacuated in the early stages of a nationalist siege that lasted until March 1939.

  • Storyville lasted exactly 20 years.


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