Sentence for ten | Use ten in a sentence

Sentences for ten. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use ten in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for ten.

  • The moon would not rise till ten! (8)
  • Ten minutes later! (10)
  • Ten 5 16ths, Peachey? (8)
  • No, and ten times no! (10)
  • He wrote ten oratorios. (3)
  • It was now half-past ten. (22)
  • Put me ten bob on, Topping. (8)
  • They arrived soon after ten. (8)
  • A clear ten thousand per annum. (4)
  • The golden age was over by the time one was ten! (8)
  • Why, Agnes, there are only ten. (9)
  • What was he like after ten years? (8)
  • I confessed to him and ten others. (10)
  • About the hour of ten Evan arrived. (10)
  • From Bodley is ten miles to Beckley. (10)
  • Thunder was rattling at ten at night. (10)
  • Well, I was ten myself, I remembers it. (8)
  • I had to pay ten shillings for one lesson! (10)
  • At the end of ten minutes old Jolyon came in. (8)
  • It was nearly ten when he bade her go to bed. (8)
  • Mr. Catkin appeared; ten minutes after his Peridon. (10)
  • They were within ten days of the appointed ceremony. (10)
  • Report yourself at the door of my room to-night, at ten. (10)
  • The first ten minutes had its awkwardness and its emotion. (4)
  • Not if he told me so ten thousand times would I believe it! (10)
  • Anthony Hackbut is going to receive ten pounds a year extra. (10)
  • I repeat her name ten times every night before I go to sleep. (10)
  • I rose as high as ten francs; but he continued to shake his head. (2)
  • How shall I come to a perfumed end, who walk on ten indecent toes? (10)
  • With a triumphant smile they were told that it was ten miles round. (4)
  • Only ten men applied for work, and all these expected to be bosses. (16)
  • My mother has ten times my wits, and yet I manage her like a feather. (10)
  • Ten years ago, and here she was again, refreshing him out of the past. (8)
  • Five minutes passed, and ten and twenty, and still Letitia did not come. (12)
  • Here, by a ferocious custom, idle youths must promenade from ten till two. (2)
  • I had rather, ten thousand times rather, get out now, and walk back to them. (4)
  • Another half hour went by; then, as the clock neared ten, the doorbell rang. (13)
  • The Potters perform ten in number, an unheard-of achievement a few years ago. (21)
  • For full ten minutes he lay there on his face without moving, then rolled over. (8)
  • It was about ten minutes before the time for descending to the breakfast-table. (10)
  • Ten minutes later, Emilia and Sir Purcell were in the chambers of Mr. Pericles. (10)
  • I made the observation that the ladies were ten times as lively as the gentlemen. (9)
  • Dickens, he said, was for the million, and Thackeray was for the upper ten thousand. (9)
  • The fire is, of course, as deadly at twenty paces as at fifteen; at fifteen as at ten. (7)
  • His friend had left him that morning for London, but was to return home in ten days time. (4)
  • Imagine, monsieur, in that sacred place I was obliged to shave at the rate of ten a penny! (8)
  • There were ten, and the number was increased by a few more before the business was settled. (14)
  • The value of that letter may now be multiplied by ten: nor for that sum would he part with it. (10)
  • After dinner, papa took Cornelia into the library alone, and they were together for ten minutes. (10)
  • I said that I was getting that already for less work, and then Mr. Fields offered me ten dollars more. (9)
  • A French regular soldier received ten louis for the scalp of an Iroquois; a volunteer received twenty. (19)
  • However, I did not hear above one word in ten, for I was thinking, you may suppose, of my dear Wickham. (4)
  • This middle period had lasted ten years, between the lonely farm and an old Dutch house at High Constantia. (8)
  • This would have amused her, nine times out of ten, but the tenth time had come when she chose to resent it. (9)
  • Here, in dim light, they mopped their faces, and without a word walked, ten paces apart, to the college gate. (8)
  • Tinman foresaw that it might be a matter of five pounds thrown to the dogs, perhaps ten, counting the glass. (10)
  • You saw how he can jump; he won ten pounds from me that same evening betting on what he knew was a certainty. (8)
  • Ten minutes later he was on horseback by the Fallow field gates, with the tidings shrieking through his frame. (10)
  • Thus within a period of not more than ten years our whole conception of illumination has been jolted out of a rut. (17)
  • Nine in ten of us had never seen a mountain, nor a hill as high as a church spire, until we had crossed the Ohio River. (7)
  • The morning came, cold, with a high, grey, London sky, and at half-past ten the first carriage, that of James, drove up. (8)
  • Cut off from all communication with France, for at least ten months must his forlorn band wait before assistance could arrive. (19)
  • My poor aunt always felt affected if within ten miles of the sea, which the Admiral of course never believed, but I know it was so. (4)
  • Every evening, wherever they had dined, they might be observed about half-past ten, leaning over the balustrade of the Alhambra promenade. (8)
  • For Mrs. Berry well knew that ten minutes alone with the hero could only be had while the little bride was in that unattainable position. (10)
  • This meeting showed Shelton that he had been an hour on the stone seat; he had thought it some ten minutes, and the discovery alarmed him. (8)
  • Yet, in spite of his strong prejudice in favour of country-house life, he was not a rich man, his income barely exceeding ten thousand a year. (8)
  • The great walls enclose a triangular space of ten or twelve acres, occupying the whole of a low point between the River Jessava and the Danube. (20)

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Definition of ten:

  • ten, ten, adj. twice five. | n. a figure denoting ten units, as 10 or x.: a playing-card with ten spots: ten o’clock in the morning or evening. | n. up’per-ten (see under upper). (0)

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