FIVE in a Sentence
Learn FIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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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Meanings and Examples of FIVE
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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.
2 The other five kings listened to this speech with generous compassion.
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.
4 There are thirty-six of you, in five or six small rooms.
5 His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.
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...
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
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
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.
10 English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
11 Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
12 That is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning.
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.
14 At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will be bearing us to our papas and mammas.
15 It was evident that his ribs would be broken in five minutes more.
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.