forty-five

Example Sentences

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But she combined Spelling School with geography and split us into teams to name all forty-five state capitals and the territorial capitals and spell them.

From Literature

He lingers a few feet away from me until Quinn screams, “Jonah! Free swim is over in forty-five minutes!”

From Literature

When she recognizes a village, “where my father lost our red Shorthorn in a game of forty-five,” we suspect that money is short and her father unreliable.

From The Wall Street Journal

It had been a cold week—fifty-three below one night, forty-five below the next two, and never rising above twenty below with wild wind out of the northwest the whole time.

From Literature

That single, thirteen-letter spirit word was translated by a medium’s assistant into a paragraph containing forty-five words of English!

From Literature