SEVEN in a Sentence

Learn SEVEN 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.
302 example sentences for SEVEN, such as:
1. The children average seven years of age.
2. One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.
3. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
4. Six days, seven days, far on into another week.
5. Six or seven bedrooms opened out of the corridor.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SEVEN
seven
 a.  being one more than six
 n.  one of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No purse, but loose money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  "Nine from seven," cried the sentinel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  Then they sang 'Beasts of England' from end to end seven times running, and after that they settled down for the night and slept as they had never slept before.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  Six or seven bedrooms opened out of the corridor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  Every summer, for seven summers now, Isa had heard the same words; about the hammer and the nails; the pageant and the weather.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  Three hours till seven, he noted; then water the plants.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  Automatically he consulted his watch; noted time to water at seven; and observed the little game of the woman following the man to the table in the West as in the East.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
9  A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
10  Six days, seven days, far on into another week.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
11  Thrice a-week are Templars permitted the use of flesh; but do thou keep fast for all the seven days.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  The astonishment of Ivanhoe was beyond bounds, when he saw his master besprinkled with blood, and six or seven dead bodies lying around in the little glade in which the battle had taken place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  But in the morning, all the same, she was up at seven, and going downstairs to Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  There have been seven coup attempts against the beleaguered government.
2  The children average seven years of age.
3  By the age of seven, children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
4  A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
5  A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
6  It's most unlikely that she'll arrive before seven.
7  We'll dine with our friends tonight at about seven.
8  The top teams will play off seven games against each other.
9  Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
10  Their unit was shelling the German lines only seven miles away.
11  One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.
12  Keep thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
13  The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
14  The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
15  Rain before seven; fine before eleven.