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Example sentences for "fifty"

Lexicographically close words:
fifth; fifths; fiftie; fifties; fiftieth; fig; figger; figgered; figgering; figgers
  1. Divorces were easy enough at Rome, and had the lady been a rich widow, there might be nothing so improbable in this latter part of the story, though she was fifty years old at the date of this first divorce.

  2. Their large number (varying from fifty to seventy) weakened the sense of individual responsibility, and laid them more open to the appeal of the advocates to their political passions.

  3. A Wanderer may come to fifty years; he plays more softly then.

  4. Nothing to speak of, only some fifty barrels, but the catch was noised abroad, and, a few days later, a stranger crew appeared in the bay.

  5. They have ordinarily about fifty applicants waiting for a vacancy in order to enter.

  6. They own almost all the valuable land in this range of mountains for fifty miles, and the fellaheen live as "tenants at will" on their estates.

  7. Although established originally for Jewish girls alone, of whom it frequently had fifty in regular attendance, it has also had under instruction, Greek and Moslem girls.

  8. The needles were briskly plied, and in due time, two hundred and fifty piastres were collected and forwarded to Aintab.

  9. In about five hours we have made the fifty miles, and down goes the anchor again in Tripoli harbor.

  10. We look over the side of the steamer and see that his boat is large and clean and agree to take it for twelve piastres or fifty cents for all of us and our baggage.

  11. In view of the mercies of Allah and his prophet Mohammed, they pay fifty piastres ($2.

  12. That Tyrian priest of fifty years ago, was a fair sample of his black-frocked brethren throughout Syria from that time to this.

  13. Elias, the deacon of the church in Beirût was called Aboo Nasif for more than fifty years, and finally in his old age he married and had a son, whom he named Nasif, so that he got his name right after all.

  14. If fifty men turn Protestants in a village, perhaps five or ten will stand firm, and the rest go back, and frequently all go back.

  15. It commenced with six pupils, and now has fifty boarders.

  16. A class of eight graduated, and the pupils contributed to benevolent objects of the fruits of their industry, over 1200 piastres, or about fifty dollars.

  17. There will be fifty boys, and of course a hundred shoes, all mixed together in one pile.

  18. It is a thing unexplained by science why the miserable hours of our lives should he fifty times the length of happy hours, though stupid clocks, seeing nothing beyond their own hands, record both with the same measurement.

  19. Quickly enough to please even this unaccountably impatient Molly, we had measured off the fifty miles separating Havre from Rouen, and slowed down for the venerable streets of the Norman capital.

  20. Bazzi left the work unfinished, and some fifty years after his death Francesco Vanni took [Illustration: The Ecstasy of St. Catherine.

  21. On the Sunday after the decision had been taken, the Signori, headed by the Captain of the People, went in procession to the Duomo with the fifty maidens and the keys of the city.

  22. They have gained in all about fifty yards.

  23. To their left, about fifty yards back from the highway, stood a quaint old inn built against a sheer cliff face which in the air seemed to bend over the puny habitation.

  24. For a whole year she labored with them to disarm their hostilities and prejudices, and succeeded at last in collecting two hundred and fifty children in the schoolhouse which she had built.

  25. On the death of the Queen (1685), Louis made Madame de Maintenon his wife, she being about fifty and he forty-seven.

  26. The vivid description of this sort of love, with its "strange agitations" and agonizing ecstasies, would have been denounced as immoral fifty years ago.

  27. And probably no description of a rural district in the Midland Counties fifty years ago has ever been painted which equals in graphic power the opening chapter.

  28. Scotland and England abound in such men, and so did New England fifty years ago.

  29. He hit upon the wise and perfectly successful device of offering fifty francs for every bushel of dead cockchafers.

  30. In the larger capitals of Europe the inner circle, which contains the commerce and luxury, the hurry and bustle, has extended enormously in the last fifty years or so.

  31. The price of entrance at first was fifty centimes, with an extra fee for each quadrille, and in 1843 the whole of the dances were included in an initial sum of two francs.

  32. Minor officers were entrusted with the task of bringing the men to the rendezvous, Jules Vabre, an architect, being responsible for a hundred and fifty men, and Célestin Nanteuil for almost as large a number.

  33. He passed his days in an alternation of prodigality and poverty, spending fifty francs on his dinner one day and feeding on a crust and a slab of chocolate the next.

  34. I know that his life is threatened, that fifty daggers are directed toward him.

  35. These fifty men have been in Paris since the day before yesterday," rejoined Fouche, quietly.

  36. And those fifty assassins, whom the royalists have sent, are in Paris?

  37. Some fifty persons followed his coffin, and a priest went before it.

  38. These fifty assassins have arrived in Paris, and their chief men had an interview yesterday with the chiefs of the conspiracies here.

  39. Yes, in my name, sire, and she gave at the same time a receipt to the queen for one hundred and fifty thousand francs, which I lent the queen toward the purchase.

  40. If these fifty assassins are creatures of your own imagination, it is you who will have to pay for it.

  41. They have chosen fifty men by ballot, in foreign parts, who are to come to Paris and accomplish here the great work of your destruction.

  42. Paris, and that at this hour those fifty men are prowling around the streets of the city, and are watching the Tuileries, waiting for an opportunity to kill the First Consul.

  43. Thus, at the merest trifle of expense a table may be supplied during the entire year with forty or fifty specimens of fresh, ripe fruit.

  44. Here snow begins at twelve thousand feet, and increases in quantity to the extreme height of the tallest peaks, about fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty feet, though even these are often bare in August.

  45. Then there is the highest class, consisting of about two hundred and fifty youths, the sons of rich mandarins, who pay heavily for their instruction.

  46. Illustrated by six steel plates and upward of two hundred and fifty wood-cuts.

  47. They were a savage-looking band, about fifty in number, and were led by a man who had formerly worked for her father, and whom she recognized.

  48. I set up the various Pauls of our acquaintance, and maintained that in any company of fifty persons, if a feminine voice were to call out "Paul!

  49. All members of the granges are thus enabled to secure these articles at greatly reduced prices; and as there are over three hundred and fifty granges, with a larger membership than in many other States, this is a very important item.

  50. Bastions, some of which are fifty feet square, are built upon the outside at distances of about one hundred feet.

  51. For fifty kreutzers she gave me a ticket.

  52. Behind the memorial temple rises an artificial mound about fifty feet high, access to the top of which is given by a rising arched passage built of white marble.

  53. Now Gilbert by the incorporation of many chapters on surgery in his Compendium inculcates practically the same idea more than fifty years before Lanfranchi, and may claim to be the earliest representative of surgical teaching in England.

  54. Not less than fifty chapters are devoted to a comparatively full discussion of wounds, fractures and dislocations, lithotomy, herniotomy, fistulae and the various diseases on the border line between medicine and surgery.

  55. A lariat is a fifty foot line with a running noose at one end and made from the hide of various animals.

  56. I started unaccompanied the following afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on a one hundred fifty mile ride.

  57. We were compelled by United States army officers to halt and await the arrival of a train of fifty armed men before being allowed to proceed.

  58. The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters (Harper).

  59. And in the brain of one who, being then between forty and fifty years of age, might have been thought inaccessible to new conceptions of the art that had for so long preoccupied him, there passed important thoughts.

  60. There are one hundred and seventy breweries in the place, although there are not more than three hundred and fifty houses.

  61. The Counts of Mansfeld, with more than fifty horsemen, and many princes, counts, and barons, accompanied the coffin.

  62. John Wesel,--preached openly against them about fifty years ago at the University of Erfurt, and afterwards at Worms and Mainz; and that John of Goch and other holy men were most earnest in denouncing them.

  63. What does this entry of eleven hundred and fifty pounds mean?

  64. I shall win one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

  65. At last he found himself, as if by magic, at the door of the house in Hammersmith, with eleven hundred and fifty pounds in his pocket.

  66. Therefore, instead of fifty pounds, you now have three hundred or so?

  67. I made up my mind that my fortune should be either one hundred and fifty thousand sterling, or nothing.

  68. I think the last fifty or sixty pages of my brother's pamphlet[66] merit the serious consideration of all persons of the Established Church who have connected themselves with the sectaries for this purpose.

  69. This fault was corrected nearly fifty years afterwards, when I determined to publish the whole.

  70. The English government will provide for their return to France; which shall take place by detachments of about one hundred and fifty (or two hundred) men at a time.

  71. Other trees have been introduced within these last fifty years, such as beeches, larches, limes, &c.

  72. He told us, that his first ode was fifty years older than his last.

  73. Boy and girl had entered the woods a distance of fifty feet from the bank of the brook, and both rested where several large rocks and some overhanging bushes afforded a convenient hiding place.

  74. I don't believe the opening is more than fifty feet deep," said Pawnee Brown.

  75. A distance of fifty yards had been covered, when they heard a loud exclamation of rage, followed by an Indian grunt.

  76. I've killed fifty rattlers in my time, but never one in this fashion," he murmured.

  77. Clemmer had played cards with a certain sharp known as Pete Stillwater, and lost two hundred and fifty dollars.

  78. But his ears were on the alert and he heard the footsteps of Yellow Elk resounding at a distance of fully fifty yards.

  79. He followed the river for less than fifty feet, when a number of voices broke upon his ears.

  80. As has been stated, the belt of timber was not far away, the nearest tree being less than fifty feet from where he remained stuck.

  81. There could not be less than fifty at the least.

  82. The forepart of the lugger was wedged into a cave, close under a black beetling cliff, fully fifty feet in height.

  83. Now, Sir, to compel persons living on such a small allowance to pay two hundred and fifty dollars for a substitute is really asking too much.

  84. Lieutenant Von Moecke) and fifty men, including ten stokers, with four maxims, in charge of the first officer of the Emden, for the purpose of taking possession of the cable station and wireless plant.

  85. On all troopships an armed guard with fifty rounds per man was mounted on the deck facing the desert.

  86. Many prisoners were wounded, and fifty dead were counted by this post, where some pontoons were also found.

  87. No man will ever be able to do justice to the events of the next half hour or fifty minutes.

  88. Therewith he rode up to the door and lighted down, and so did they all; and there came forth a tall and somewhat goodly man of some fifty winters and bade Welcome, Sir Mark!

  89. There's war in the East, or the CZAR is laid low, Financiers have failed--Fifty Millions or so!

  90. The answer was made without hesitation: "Give it seven hundred and fifty yards, Seagrue.

  91. The mountain men for a hundred and fifty miles around were out.

  92. Any man big enough to start after you is not used to shooting twice at two hundred and fifty yards.

  93. The third man, Seagrue, less than fifty yards away, had got off his horse and was laying down his rifle, when the hoot-owl screeched again and he looked uneasily back.

  94. This was the peril that Glover and McCloud essayed when they ran a three-tenths grade and laid an eighty-pound rail up two hundred and fifty miles of the valley.

  95. Of these, two hundred and fifty were in the vicinity of the bridge, the abutments and piers of which were being put in just below the Dunning ranch.

  96. If you can't drop a man in the saddle at two hundred and fifty yards, what do you think you'd look like after a break with me?

  97. When the river rose, the earlier talk of Dunning's men had been that the Crawling Stone would put an end to the railroad pretensions by washing the two hundred and fifty miles of track back to the Peace River, where it had started.

  98. His party had struck a trail fifty miles north of Sleepy Cat and followed it to the Missions.

  99. It is the weather two hundred and fifty miles above here that is of more consequence to us, and there it is clear to-night.

  100. Four hundred and fifty miles to the north lay Cape Chudleigh, towards which he could imagine the Julia A.

  101. Four hundred and fifty miles to the east lay the wide expanse of Hamilton Inlet.

  102. Shortly after dinner a carry was made, taking three and a half hours to track out a path up and along a terrace about fifty feet high.

  103. About fifty Eskimos were measured and collections made of their clothing, implements of war and chase and household utensils, which are the best of our collections, for the World's Fair and the Bowdoin museums.


  104. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fifty acres; fifty cents; fifty cubits; fifty days; fifty dollars; fifty feet; fifty francs; fifty guineas; fifty guns; fifty leagues; fifty miles; fifty millions; fifty pounds; fifty thousand; fifty times; fifty tons; fifty yards; fifty years