forty
Example Sentences
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The middle-aged artist appears in the picture’s foreground while behind her “are three small figures, dressed in the winter clothing of the girls of forty years ago.”
Though harmonic tremors had ceased again after May 8, twenty to forty earthquakes still shook the ground every day.
From Literature
It was forty paces across, and a blue so dark it was almost black.
From Literature
“About forty years old. Some sort of embassy official.”
From Literature
We are just over forty people, now that so many who started the journey with us have gone ahead of our slow group.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
