Sentence for three | Use three in a sentence

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• I must have three. (8)
• Give me three weeks. (22)
• The three men sat down. (8)
• Three English noblemen! (10)
• I have fed three Germans. (8)
• He remained three years away. (9)
• He was only there three weeks. (8)
• So passed the first three weeks. (4)
• Two or three men scowled at him. (10)
• In three days they would be at Oxford. (8)
• Our provisions were in three large hampers. (10)
• Three Jolyons in one Jolyon they had walked. (8)
• Dr Middleton was attacked by three angry bees. (10)
• Lavender to the three soldiers in blue clothes. (8)
• The three soldiers looked at each other, and Mr. (8)
• Three bright round tins are set under the window. (8)
• Two or three fell as he looked, and lay motionless. (1)
• Her boat started in three days, and she must decide. (8)
• One, two, three, and the thought is banished forever. (9)
• The three made chorus in a noise of boots on the floor. (10)
• Between his reddish eyebrows vibrated three dark furrows. (12)
• I may be down about two, or three, or four, in the morning. (10)
• His six sonatas and three preludes and fugues are masterpieces. (3)
• The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles. (4)
• The three soldiers were talking now in carefully lowered voices. (8)
• Two or three other newspapers are dumped on the arm of the sofa. (8)
• He was on the lawn; read it, and wrote back three hasty lines in pencil. (10)
• She sent me three hundred pounds; she must have supposed the occasion pressing. (10)
• On a table stood a leather photograph envelope with three cabinet pictures in it. (9)
• Twice or three times she addressed him timidly by name, or made some trivial remark. (8)
• He knew his trade, and accomplished in one day more than other workmen did in three. (12)
• She passed three peaceable days at Copsley, at war only with the luxury of the house. (10)
• Nearly all were dirty; some had whole boots, some half boots, and two or three had none. (8)
• Now they had gone three paces onward, and were in the light of many lamps, when behold! (10)
• Three years later he wrote a letter[9] which repeats in prose much the same sentiments. (14)
• Mr. Leeman there will have a chariot, fly, gig, anything, ready-horsed in three hours from now. (10)
• As we stood there expecting nothing better of it than three at the most, it suddenly struck twelve. (9)
• The picture-gallery, and two or three of the principal bedrooms, were all that remained to be shown. (4)
• In the section of sky over the street twinkled two or three stars; shining faintly, feeling the moon. (10)
• More than a minute of the terrible length of the period of torture must have gone: two, if not three. (10)
• After two or three days of whistling, I saw my old friend, Mr. Bannerbridge, step out of the packetboat. (10)
• A sallow two or three minutes composed their motions, and then they jumped again to the step for lively legs. (10)
• During the next three weeks he bent himself faithfully to the schemes of work his father had outlined for him. (9)
• She gazed at the Void of shape, She put her white hand to his reach, Saying: Now have we looked on the Three. (10)
• All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light. (4)
• In person he had sat there but three weeks, but in soul he seemed to have been sitting there hundreds of years. (8)
• Holland has three conservatories in her three large cities, =Amsterdam=, =Rotterdam= and =The Hague=. (3)
• Her chief agent, as director of three Companies and chairman of one, was perhaps competent to advise her, he remarked. (10)
• Just wait, and take in two or three words from me, and notice particularly how she is looking, and the dress she wears. (10)
• Luckily for him, in the meantime, the Governor arrived from Quebec with soldiers to reinforce the garrison at Three Rivers. (19)
• Three days later, leaving Gyp with his sister, he went back to Mildenham to start the necessary alterations in the cottages. (8)
• All were in silent watch of the house on the beach, which was to east of the field, at a distance of perhaps three stonethrows. (10)
• In repose, with three flies circling above her fine gray hair, she might have served a sculptor for a study of the stoic spirit. (8)
• Companionship was broken before they parted in three bodies, commanded severally by Colonel Corte, Carlo Ammiani, and Barto Rizzo. (10)
• Even as the law is, in a population of only one hundred million we have had no fewer than three homicides in less than twenty years! (7)
• Speed-the-Plough volunteered information that Bursley was a good three mile from where they stood, and a good eight mile from Lobourne. (10)
• During their progress each of the three windows was filled with heads, but no one had been able to hear what was whispered in the street. (5)
• It consisted of three or four light dishes, some fruit and above all a great abundance of nuts, which were as well received as at dinner. (18)
• Both wrote sonatas, those of the former in two movements, while those of the latter had generally three, of a brilliant and attractive style. (3)
• These three officials were the Governor, the Bishop, and the Intendant, the latter having charge of the commerce and finances of the colony. (19)
• She could live a long time on his three gold florins, if Cyriax abandoned her; yet the unexpected wealth burned in her hand and perplexed her. (5)
• The article was brief and passed in review the three main topics of the currency, our foreign relations, and the Kansas-Nebraska difficulties. (14)
• Inoculation was first tried in 1796, and three years later an institution was opened in London where a Leipsic professor of medicine gave lectures. (5)
• Hélène, one of the three sons of the brave Canadian named Le Moine, and after incredible hardships reached the village of Schenectady, on the Hudson. (19)
• The other three remained in the council chamber, to see that King George, the aristocracy and British sordidness, were well remembered with innumerable glasses of Madeira. (18)

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