fifty

Example Sentences

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Each bump reminded me jarringly of my fifty years.

From Literature

There was a whole crowd around him—Hans, the countess’s manservant, was there, and forty, maybe fifty of our fellow refugees, and the schoolchildren—and Karli was showing off even more than usual.

From Literature

Even from this distance -fifty, sixty paces below him – it was enormous.

From Literature

"Supply constraints today are less severe" than some fifty years ago and remain concentrated around the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of global consumption of oil and liquefied natural gas typically passes.

From Barron's

“The letters don’t seem so big from here, but when you get right up to it . . . well, they’re something like fifty feet high. You’ve got to see it up close.”

From Literature