TEN in a Sentence
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402 example sentences for TEN, such as:
1. They checked out ten minutes ago.
2. She went blind at the age of ten.
3. I just changed it ten minutes ago.
4. Her grandfather died ten years ago.
5. I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.
2. She went blind at the age of ten.
3. I just changed it ten minutes ago.
4. Her grandfather died ten years ago.
5. I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TEN
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ten
a. being one more than nine
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 It was rare for him to be up after ten at night, and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3 My time is from ten at night to six in the morning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4 Twenty had changed to fifteen and fifteen to ten, but there was no news of the absentee.
5 Every Sunday morning at ten o'clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week.
6 It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
7 Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that.
8 Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.
9 "The village idiot," whispered a stout black lady--Mrs. Elmhurst--who came from a village ten miles distant where they, too, had an idiot.
10 The gate was a goal; to be reached in ten.
11 She gave them ten seconds to settle their faces.
12 she had written, "try ten mins."
13 But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me.
14 By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed, the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round, very silent.
15 But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
Example Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
1 Add an extra ten minutes to your journey time to allow for the traffic.
2 She went blind at the age of ten.
3 Her grandfather died ten years ago.
4 The country gained its independence ten years ago.
5 He taught physics to the students at a college ten years ago.
6 His novels had a great vogue ten years ago.
7 They checked out ten minutes ago.
8 He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.
9 I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.
10 I just changed it ten minutes ago.
11 The government has agreed to lift the embargo imposed ten years ago.
12 We moved here ten years ago because there was very little crime.
13 Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.
14 Allow the soup to simmer gently for ten minutes.
15 It's almost ten miles from here to the civic center.