FOUR in a Sentence

Learn FOUR 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.
243 example sentences for FOUR, such as:
1. We're four hours ahead of New York.
2. A horse stumbles that has four legs.
3. The siege lasted almost four months.
4. Jim was laid up for four days and nights.
5. The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FOUR
four
 n.  a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
 a.  being one more than three
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  I was thinkin'" answered Ben, "as I'd warrant tha's, gone up three or four pound this week.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
4  WELL, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
5  The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
6  Jim was laid up for four days and nights.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
7  This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
8  I was floating along, of course, four or five miles an hour; but you don't ever think of that.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
9  She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many as thirty men, likely.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
10  "I got up at four o'clock," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Them rapscallions took in four hundred and sixty-five dollars in that three nights.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
12  'With all my heart,' said the cock: so they all four went on jollily together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
13  Then the woman served up four different things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE LITTLE PEASANT
14  The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king's own heart, and he soon died.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE PINK
15  Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  The four men arrested were described as really big fish by the U.
2  The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.
3  I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
4  We're four hours ahead of New York.
5  Almost three in four clinics say they face closure by the end of the year.
6  The siege lasted almost four months.
7  It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
8  Although she hasn't made a movie for four years, her pulling power is as great as ever.
9  An American President's term of office is four years.
10  A horse stumbles that has four legs.
11  In a coded telephone warning, Scotland Yard were told four bombs had been planted in the area.
12  Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
13  Clare is now a full-time author with six books, including four novels, under her belt.
14  According to the American Constitution, presidential elections are held every four years.
15  According to the hospital chart he's four kilos underweight.