FIVE in a Sentence

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398 example sentences for FIVE, such as:
1. There is also a golf course five miles away.
2. The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
3. General analysis is followed by five case studies.
4. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
5. That is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FIVE
five
 n.  a team that plays basketball
 n.  a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We have, each of us in his pocket, five or six millions in diamonds; you are more clever than I; you must go and bring Miss Cunegonde from Buenos Ayres.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
2  The other five kings listened to this speech with generous compassion.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
3  On board this galley there were four young men from Marseilles, five Neapolitan priests, and two monks from Corfu, who told us similar adventures happened daily.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
4  There are thirty-six of you, in five or six small rooms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
5  His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
6  He left behind him five or six very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Genesis, In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
7  Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
8  This glory of the Labarre of the Three Dauphins was reflected upon the Labarre of the Cross of Colbas, at a distance of five and twenty leagues.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
10  English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  That is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
13  This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
14  At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will be bearing us to our papas and mammas.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
15  It was evident that his ribs would be broken in five minutes more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
Example Sentence: (188 in 13 pages)
1  According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
2  I need to deposit five thousand yen in my savings account.
3  Add the tea leaves and leave to infuse for five minutes.
4  At five o'clock in the afternoon the city streets are a series of bottlenecks.
5  I seldom go home after five o'clook in the afternoon.
6  Since his last book five years ago, he seems to have sunk without trace.
7  I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
8  The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
9  You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
10  There is also a golf course five miles away.
11  I have tried to write this story five times but I am still dissatisfied with me.
12  Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
13  General analysis is followed by five case studies.
14  I don't wish to be rude, but I have another appointment in five minutes.
15  If you answer this question correctly, it's worth five points.