Sentence for few | Use few in a sentence

A sentence using the word few. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use few in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for few.

  • And why were they so few? (8)
  • She walked back a few steps. (8)
  • A few things only are plain. (16)
  • I just want a few words with you. (9)
  • The window was only a few feet up. (8)
  • Few young men and maids were seen. (10)
  • Few men have been graver than Pascal. (10)
  • She came, therefore, in a few minutes. (8)
  • Time stood at a few minutes past eleven. (10)
  • Like to sprinkle a few ashes over my boils? (9)
  • There was lively work in the next few seconds. (7)
  • Is that to be his voyage-from which so few return? (8)
  • A few seconds later they were looking at him again. (8)
  • Only a few inches separate the living from the dead. (2)
  • But after a few moments, Jackson answered it slowly. (13)
  • A few minutes later they rode out from the straw-yard. (8)
  • Few among them were having it in the breast as loudly. (10)
  • Lord Larrian owns to there being few heroes in an army. (10)
  • He retired, and in a few moments ushered in Emilia Belloni. (10)
  • We were within a few hours of eloping together for Scotland. (4)
  • She sought to collect a few more of the scattered fragments. (10)
  • A diligence engaged to deliver me within a few miles of Sarkeld. (10)
  • It looked as if those few rifle-shots had slain ten thousand men. (1)
  • He intends to quit it in a few Days, and to begin his route to Italy. (4)
  • Lydia left a few lines for his wife, informing her of their intention. (4)
  • She had the advantage of him in the preparation of the last few moments. (4)
  • Philip Cook, of Virginia, had written a few graceful and musical lyrics. (14)
  • Since Babel there have been few such chances for learning the languages. (14)
  • He is a saver of life and limb whose services few but showmen appreciate. (21)
  • Miss Greydon was already making a few good-natured sallies at the Colonel. (18)
  • Thus do the few who live but with the day: The scientific animals are they. (10)
  • Still it was all held, and shut with glass doors, in a case of very few shelves. (9)
  • There were ten, and the number was increased by a few more before the business was settled. (14)
  • Until the events of the last few days he had been almost-supernaturally steady all this year. (8)
  • For some few painful moments the farmer could not speak, and his hand was raised rejectingly. (10)
  • Jolyon could feel the muzzle, where a few whitish bristles grew, cooling already against his lips. (8)
  • They are far removed from the scene of a few hours before and gaze curiously at the surroundings. (21)
  • He follows a few simple maxims that work out well enough in selling shoes or cigars or sheet-music. (16)
  • It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part. (4)
  • What the devil was the good of a she-ass if she could not carry a sleeping-bag and a few necessaries? (2)
  • But the temptation to make money will be before you every moment, and to-day few men can resist that. (13)
  • Within the last few days the evidence against him has increased to the extent of justifying his arrest. (12)
  • I know a few rather authoritative persons who sincerely assign to you quite a high position among mortals. (12)
  • He turned his head neither to the right nor to the left, and disappeared in a few strides among the foliage. (2)
  • Gradually the secrets of his technic were revealed to the ambitious few; now they are almost common property. (3)
  • The wonderful revolution a few days had effected in all my tastes and desires, did not escape me at this moment. (6)
  • He wrote a few underlined words, entreating Vittoria to grant an immediate interview in the library of the castle. (10)
  • The merchants, traders, lawyers and doctors were principally to be found on Front Street and a few on Market Street. (18)
  • In all those preparations he forgot nothing, employing every minute of the few hours in a sort of methodic exaltation. (8)
  • Assuredly very few even of the philosophers would have turned away uncomplainingly to meaner delights the moment after. (10)
  • Could I have sent a few happy lines, they should not have been wanting, but nothing of that nature was ever in my power. (4)
  • The Barnard referred to was, of course, the infamous judge from whom, a few years later, the judicial robes were stripped. (16)
  • Such it seemed to her, till she could have shrieked; but only a few fresh tears started down her cheeks, and she lay enduring it. (10)
  • Such it seemed to her, till she could have shrieked; but only a few fresh tears started down her cheeks, and she lay enduring it. (22)
  • While I thought over this difficulty, Trevanion came up, and in a few words, informed me more fully upon what he hinted at before. (6)
  • As in other show cities, there is a routine at Quebec for travellers who come on Saturday and go on Monday, and few depart from it. (9)
  • The varieties of dormer-windows that he can put on the roof are limited to a few that are capable of being reasonably constructed. (17)
  • Thus, among their intricate hills, the rustic troop subsisted; and history can attribute few exploits to them but sacraments and ecstasies. (2)
  • From the gallery above many civilian spectators looked down upon the gayety, and the dress-coats of a few citizens figured among the uniforms. (9)
  • He lay there a long time, watching the sunlight wheel till the crab-trees threw shadows over the bluebells, his only companions a few wild bees. (8)
  • There area few rococo churches in Italy, and perhaps more in Spain, which approach the perfection achieved by the Wurzburg cathedral in the baroque style. (9)
  • They stand closely together along straight thoroughfares which are little better than canals of mud, being only a few inches above the level of the river. (20)

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Definition of few:

  • few, f, adj. small in number: not many. | n. few’ness. | a few, used colloquially for ‘a good bit;’ a good few, a considerable number; in few=in a few (words), briefly; some few, an inconsiderable number; the few, the minority. (0)

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