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Example sentences for "four"

Lexicographically close words:
fountaines; fountainhead; fountains; fountayne; founts; foure; fourescore; foureteene; foureteenth; fourfold
  1. Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

  2. In this arrangement there must be at least six nicely fitted journals and their bearings, four of which will be required to take care of the forked connecting rod that joins the wheels together.

  3. Dividing his stars on this principle into four groups, he obtained an apex for the sun's translation corresponding to each as follows: Number of Proper motion.

  4. The five pound boxes of grapes are passed to the pressing machine, where four of them are deftly transferred to a twenty pound box.

  5. There are, broadly speaking, four methods of treating Natural foliage.

  6. The first and second grades are passed to the sorter, while the third grade raisins are placed in a big machine that strips off the stems and grades the loose raisins in three or four sizes.

  7. These boxes are placed under slight pressure, and four of them fill one of the regular twenty pound boxes of commerce.

  8. The strong feet terminate in four very long toes deprived at the interdigital membrane observed in most of the Ciconidæ.

  9. To separate a common element of motion from the heterogeneous shiftings upon the sphere of three or four thousand stars is a task practicable only under certain conditions.

  10. I have witnessed the changing of batteries in a car, one set being taken out and a charged set replaced by four men in the short space of three minutes.

  11. There are four ways in which a connecting rod is made use of in machine work.

  12. This bill is ten inches in length, and four inches in breadth at the base.

  13. But why should anybody be suspicious of four honest-looking boys out for a little fun?

  14. He must have seen by looking at the faces of the four boys that they were worthy of trust.

  15. It took a long time to go over the four passports with their seals, and then read extracts from the letters.

  16. Jack even heard the man mention the emperor's name, and from this judged that he was repeating what the boy had said in order to prove that the four strangers from America were favorable to the Austrian side of the controversy.

  17. The four motorboat chums saw them no more, but they would always remember the incident with pleasure.

  18. He could easily imagine how in some manner suspicion had been excited against the four young strangers stopping over night at the river town.

  19. As Jack was a master hand at this sort of thing, he quickly produced a sketch that represented four boys, all dressed alike, and in the costume which the young stranger wore.

  20. They were lucky enough to get hold of a pretty fair powerboat that would accommodate four sleepers with some crowding.

  21. They were now in Rumania proper, and four days later arrived at the important city of Galatz.

  22. Here in the wonderful city on the Golden Horn we will say good-by to the four Motorboat Boys.

  23. Of course, this reminded the others that they too had news from those dear ones now so far away, and for a long time the four sat there, lost in contemplation of distant scenes brought close to them by those envelopes and their contents.

  24. That was why I wanted them to keep out of sight, while the four of us remained in full view.

  25. True had been his aim, for the missile cut a passage completely through the pontoons, leaving a gap some four feet or more wide there.

  26. He pictured Niagara Falls, and the powerboat plunging over the beetling brink, with four boys he knew full well fastened in its interior, helpless victims.

  27. Gascoigne, jump into the boat with four men--I see the cutter floats a quarter of a mile astern: there may be someone alive yet.

  28. The breeze continued light, and the vessel which contained Jack and his fortunes was about four miles to leeward.

  29. In a short time all the seamen turned out of the tent, bringing with them four muskets, which they had taken on shore with them.

  30. You see that there are three parties to fight; had there been two or four there would have been no difficulty, as the right line or square might guide us in that instance; but we must arrange it upon the triangle in this.

  31. Four thousand pounds for preventing an old woman from falling," replied Captain Wilson.

  32. For four long hours did this assault and defence continue, until daylight came, and then the plan of assault was altered: they again brought up the poles, hammered the pieces of furniture into fragments, and gained ground.

  33. Well, if he wishes to take what he has seen, he shall receive what he has not seen--why, there are only four of them.

  34. I will give you government bills, which will make it nearly four thousand pounds.

  35. Four men well armed pulled them alongside of the xebeque, put them and their trunks on deck, and returned to the ship.

  36. McCook, who had relieved Rousseau October 14, by order of Sherman, was assigned to the command of this division, which consisted also of four brigades.

  37. Jordan posted himself on a thickly wooded hill and fired several volleys at the rebels as they advanced over an open field, but being outnumbered was routed with a loss of four killed, six wounded, and nineteen prisoners.

  38. Miller with about twenty-four hundred men in his command moved on the road to the right to make the attack on the rear of the enemy.

  39. This division was formed of four brigades, out of a number of regiments gathered up from different points in Kentucky.

  40. The enemy had originally four lines of breastworks.

  41. The signal for the attack was to be one gun from the centre, and four o'clock was the hour set for the firing of this gun.

  42. As soon as the last of the troops were over, work on the bridge was commenced and finished at a little after four o'clock in the afternoon.

  43. Morgan pushed through Winchester, reaching that point about twelve o'clock, crossed the Kentucky River just at dark, and arrived at Richmond at four o'clock in the morning.

  44. Colonel Lester formed his command in line of battle, with nine companies of infantry and four pieces of artillery, and opened fire on the rebels as they advanced.

  45. The next day the four divisions of the Fourteenth Corps were in supporting distance of each other, with Negley still in front of Dug Gap, the enemy holding the east entrance with a heavy force, and the Gap full of obstructions.

  46. The Twenty-third Brigade under Colonel Duffield, composed of four regiments, was ordered from Kentucky to garrison Murfreesboro, and protect the road from Shelbyville to Lavergne.

  47. This force escaped him, and he then swept around to the south of Nashville, captured 150 bridge guards and burned four bridges.

  48. I will play the melody three--four times.

  49. He doubted if it was possible to go through with it under five hundred dollars; and, if, as seemed only too probable, Mrs Peagrim took the matter in hand and gave herself her head, it might get into four figures.

  50. On the encore, four more girls and two more boys.

  51. The rendezvous is in the sitting-room in about four moments.

  52. He only ceased to brood upon the high cost of costuming when in the next line but one there smote his eye an item of four hundred and ninety-eight dollars for "Clothing.

  53. Trot along and tell the audience that the four dollars fifty in the house will be refunded.

  54. When Jill arrived at the theatre at four o'clock for the chorus rehearsal, the expected blow had not fallen.

  55. Seeing Freddie here at the theatre, she had, as is not uncommon with fallible mortals, put two and two together and made the answer four when it was not four at all.

  56. On the second refrain four girls will come out and two boys.

  57. There was a call for a chorus-rehearsal at four o'clock, and it seemed the wise move to go to bed and get some sleep while there was time.

  58. He perceived trousered legs, four of them, and, cocking his eye upwards, saw that two men of the lower orders stood before him.

  59. And what in the name of everything infernal was this item for "Frames," in which mysterious luxury he had apparently indulged to the extent of ninety-four dollars and fifty cents?

  60. Three out of four of them had been mixed up in some man-slaying, or had some blood-feud to avenge among their own kin.

  61. For four years she and her good husband had let the Rondelets lodge with them, and now she was a widow, and to part with them was more than she could bear.

  62. Four hundred francs for this would not be too much--the silver plate and the gold watches.

  63. After running and walking about four miles, fatigued and lost, I lay down and slept till morning.

  64. On the western side of the ridge they passed a large lake, the source of the river Udama, surrounded by mountains, and three or four versts in length.

  65. In defiance of an annual edict from the Emperor, making it death to smuggle opium, the enormous quantity of nearly four thousand chests is imported every year to Macao and Whampoa; the greater part, however, goes to the former place.

  66. Whilst Mr. Dobell was there, a large cable was prepared for the frigate Diana, in the course of four or five days, and appeared quite as well made as a European cable.

  67. Many times it occurred that we lodged in a house for the night, were furnished with bread, milk, cream, and a supper for four servants, and I had a difficulty to make the man of the house accept of a couple of roubles.

  68. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours and twenty-four minutes out of every natural day, or one day of every ten.

  69. It had been determined to make an example of twelve individuals; two from the army, and an equal number from the bar; four planters, and as many merchants.

  70. He speaks of four stocks, by which he seems to mean the varieties arising from a difference of cultivation, soil, or temperature.

  71. The two governors, no longer rivals, landed four hundred of their men and several horses, and set off with all speed for the fatal village.

  72. Her four arms supported a scimitar, a noose, a trident, and a ponderous mace.

  73. So saying the thief rapped twice at the city gate, which was at once opened to him, and preceding his accomplice led the way to a rock about two kos (four miles) distant from the walls.

  74. He practiced the eighty-four Asana or postures, raising his hand to the wonders of the heavens, till he felt no longer the inconveniences of heat or cold, hunger or thirst.

  75. He cried out: "O great king, be pleased to receive four lakhs of rupees, and to release this thief.

  76. A great crowd gathered round the four young men and their father, as opening the bundle that contained the tiger's remains, they prepared for their task.

  77. At length when some time had elapsed, four suitors appeared from four different countries, all of them claiming equal excellence in youth and beauty, strength and understanding.

  78. Now it so happened that this wise and pious Brahmanic peer had four sons, whom he brought up in the strictest and most serious way.

  79. FN#122] Meaning the place of reading the four Shastras.

  80. You'd have a close call if it happened to fall On top of your four little feet.

  81. Pretty soon the king and the princess drove off in a great coach drawn by four milk white horses, after saying good-by to the bunnies, the crow and pig.

  82. Hand-clapping in last four bars of "B" music is a repetition of clapping in first four bars, as shown in diagram.

  83. Kimber, as will be seen (plate opposite), wears twelve bells on each leg, in three perpendicular rows of four each.

  84. There are accounts also of bells with four different tones.

  85. In remaining four bars of "A" music form Ring again, and all return to position as they came (see Fig.

  86. Tapping is the same in first and second four bars.

  87. In the second four bars, for completion of the Chain, the movements already described are simply reversed.

  88. In one dance, the second four bars are danced the same way as the first four; but in all the others the Column is reversed at the end of the first four bars.

  89. They have four or five egg-tubes where the queen has two hundred, but they cannot be fertilized by the drones.

  90. My family came here from Earth four years before I was born.

  91. Fruit as a Decoration," "With Shaggy Four Legged Playmates" and "Bhuddism as Opposed to Electricity.

  92. Well, I forgot the article and its subject, and was only reminded of it by finding myself one fine day whisking along at the rate of twenty miles an hour over a well-constructed railway, one of a cargo of four hundred souls.

  93. They informed me that they can clear fifty dollars a month for the seven months they can work in this region, and that four or five seasons are sufficient to enable a saving man to buy a farm in the West.

  94. Should two days, however, be found necessary to complete the payment, four days' provisions may be allowed.

  95. This course Mr. Chapman has pursued for three or four seasons back, and, as I am told by many who have encountered this aquatic company, very profitably.

  96. When it is considered that this season the value of cotton has been ranging from sixpence-halfpenny to ninepence per pound, the enormous receipts of some of these persons, who make from four hundred to three thousand bales of 430 lbs.

  97. The three beds in the cottage were ordered to be got ready for us, and a lodging in a neighbouring farm-house was secured for the four men who had rowed the gig.

  98. In ten minutes she reappeared smiling; and brought me not only what I asked for, but three or four potatoes in the bargain.

  99. About four the same morning, Prince Frederick got up and dressed himself, and went with his mother to the King's bed-chamber, accompanied by General Eichstedt and Count Rantzan.

  100. At four o'clock, while our Norwegian bark was just hull down, the gaff-topsail was taken in, a strong S.

  101. It was a stick four or five yards in length, to the end of which two pieces of iron were attached in the shape of a heart.

  102. Early in the morning, about four o'clock, I was awakened by a good deal of laughing and shuffling of feet on deck, and by an occasional thump, as if a cargo of pumpkins was being taken on board.

  103. We stepped on board the cutter at four o'clock, having been rowed eighteen miles in three hours and a half.

  104. Its pages are divided into four columns, and in the fourth column, the traveller may state any complaint he has to make.

  105. It is four hundred feet in length, and sixty in breadth.

  106. According to their instructions, the four lords mounted their steeds, passed the bridge of Nieullet, and, on reaching the English camp, found the king surrounded by his barons and knights.

  107. The cannon used in the siege of Calais threw balls of three or four ounces weight.

  108. Edgar was one of his chief contributors, and wrote some capital stories and histories, of which three or four are still in favour, and this story of "Cressy and Poictiers" is the best of them.

  109. For my own part, I had to tell the story hundreds of times, and, for twenty-four hours at least, found myself a person of no slight consequence.

  110. Germany, who had come to England, in 1533, for his betrothal to the Princess Mary, then only four years old.

  111. In 1869 the last of the inmates left, and four years later the buildings were re-opened as a naval college, those named after Queen Anne being set aside as a museum of naval relics, models of ships, etc.

  112. The dying statesman was taken back to Hayes Place, where in a small room on the ground floor he breathed his last four weeks later.

  113. Sidenote: Richmond Town] The parish church of Richmond, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, replaces one of four ancient chapels that belonged to the Abbey of Merton.

  114. Eleanor on the way to her tomb at Westminster, and it also greatly prides itself on the possession of the actual inn at which the bearers of the coffin rested for a night, the signboard bearing the legend, 'Ye Old Four Swannes Hostelrie, 1260.

  115. During the four years' Civil War Richmond Palace was practically deserted, and in 1647 the pictures in it were taken down, those likely to spread papal doctrines being burned, and the others dispersed.

  116. As it now stands the hospital consists of four groups of buildings, named respectively after Charles II.

  117. June 1611, only to be taken prisoner immediately after her embarkation in the boat that was to have borne her to France, whence she was removed to the Tower, there to die four years later, without having again seen her husband.

  118. This couple has four children, Elenor Is second to be born.

  119. The wearisome and tangled ways of courts With Rufus Fox for foe, four trials in all Where juries disagreed who heard the law Erroneously given by the court.

  120. And for four years sat by the sea, or made Visits to Paris, where I met the man I married.

  121. We went four miles and found the cemetery, The grave of "Soapy" Smith.

  122. They mate, and of four chickens, two are blue, And one is black and one is white.

  123. I reckon some of the newspapers make a lot o’ money, why I heard this morning of a man as buys four newspapers a day!

  124. I’ve bin in work most o’ the time the last four months, ain’t I, mother?

  125. I have been fortunate in obtaining in the one photograph, four different classes of living wagon.

  126. In her ears were gold ear-rings of a curious crescentic design, and around the neck she had four rows of large red beads.

  127. There was now a strong and organized resistance to the Four Hundred, and their own divisions placed them further in a precarious situation.

  128. He then embarked in a gilded galley, and sailed past the prows of the twelve hundred ships moored four hundred feet from the shore.

  129. M298) The largest of the Grecian States was the famous peninsula known as the Peloponnesus, entirely surrounded by water, except the isthmus of Corinth, four geographical miles wide.

  130. M1001) For the next four years he was absorbed in private studies, and in the courts of law, at the end of which he became ædile, the year that Verres was impeached for misgovernment in Sicily.

  131. But the four small States into which the kingdom was parceled could not live in peace.

  132. It took four months to surmount their resistance, during which he lost one-fourth of his army.

  133. The river Peneus flowed through the entire extent of the country, and near its mouth was the vale of Tempe, the most beautiful valley in Greece, guarded by four strong fortresses.

  134. M299) Southwest of Achaia was Elis, on the Ionian Sea, in which stood Olympia, where the Olympic games were celebrated every four years, instituted by Hercules.

  135. It was computed by Lipsius to reach the enormous number of four millions.

  136. A Dome resting on four pillars in the centre of a square edifice, with an apse in the middle, of each of the four sides.

  137. Illustration with caption: The view of the front of a temple, apparently a dome in the centre of four corinthian porticos bearing pediments (published by Amoretti Tav.

  138. The base of this mountain gives birth to the 4 rivers which flow in four different directions through the whole of Europe.

  139. The arch which is doubled to four times of its thickness will bear four times the weight that the single arch could carry, and more in proportion as the diameter of its thickness goes a smaller number of times into its length.

  140. Plan of the octagon tower, giving the disposition of the buttresses; starting from the eight pillars adjoining the four principal piers and intended to support the eight angles of the Tiburio.

  141. Then, in four drawings, represent four universal conditions of men.

  142. Above this figure is the elevation, showing four campaniles on the angles.

  143. Among the four elements water is the second both in weight and in instability.

  144. You now have to prove that the shells cannot have originated if not in salt water, almost all being of that sort; and that the shells in Lombardy are at four levels, and thus it is everywhere, having been made at various times.

  145. I had not been in his house four days when an accident happened, which showed how much I was in the right.

  146. He enlisted, and in twenty-four hours left Paris.

  147. He had two sons, Nathan and William, and four or five daughters.

  148. Four women from St. Giles's armed with large clubs pointed with iron, passed through the crowd striking in all directions.

  149. She arrived in great ceremony, with a coach and four black horses, with postilions and servants in scarlet livery.

  150. His wife is a gentle, lovely character; and he has four children, all beautiful and good.

  151. Through the Wadsworths and Bartletts, the poet could trace his descent to not less than four of the Mayflower pilgrims, including Elder Brewster and Captain John Alden.

  152. Last of all came her Majesty's carriage with two coachmen & four footmen in the same magnificent livery.

  153. He then appended a supplementary list of twenty-four minor authors, headed by Longfellow.

  154. Besides Emerson and Longfellow, only two literary men were included, these being Irving with eighty-four votes and Hawthorne with seventy-three.

  155. It is to be noticed that neither of these four projects, except it be the second, seems to imply that national character of which he dreamed when the paper in "The North American Review" was written.

  156. Four dogs and one man," he said, turning to his companion.

  157. Four hours afterwards she awakened suddenly and looked around her.

  158. He did not wait for any reply, but walked to the little fly-tent, and three or four minutes later emerged, puffing a pipe.

  159. I shall leave four Indians with you, and shall establish a camp at this point, so that in the event of Helen returning here you will not miss her by any chance.

  160. From his vantage place on the rising ground the watcher saw a rather short man moving up from the wharf accompanied by the obsequious factor, and behind him two other men and four ladies, with the factor's wife and Gerald Ainley.

  161. Meat," she whispered laughingly, "on four legs and with horns.

  162. My sister's son was here, but he departed four days ago.

  163. It was about four minutes after when the second shot was fired, and the bullet hit the shaft of the paddle, so that it broke on my next stroke, and I was left at the mercy of the river.

  164. Then acting under the directions of his fierce conqueror--three or four stalwart Kafirs raised the insensible form of the unfortunate settler and bore it away.

  165. Again, was it fair play for four men, armed with assegais, to attack one, who had but two shots?

  166. After the events of the last twenty-four hours to go on living as heretofore would be a terrible strain.

  167. All four of the buck's legs are snapped and shattered like pipe-stems.

  168. The four men had set out and crossed the Bashi into the Bomvana country, as at first stated.

  169. The killed had been reduced from four to two, the number of widows from three to one.

  170. Four hundred and fifty head of good cattle was the figure.

  171. To be defied and bearded like this on his own land, and by four black scoundrels whom he has caught red-handed in the act of killing his own game!

  172. So the troop set forth on its homeward way, while our four friends, turning their horses' heads in the opposite direction, struck downward into the thick bush along the river bank.

  173. We are four fools," said Payne sententiously.

  174. The other two Kafirs spring suddenly to their feet, and all four close up in a line in front of the speaker, so as to stand between him and their dogs.

  175. Suddenly the leader of the party, who, with three or four others, was riding a little way ahead, was seen to halt, and earnestly to scrutinise the slope beneath.

  176. Some three or four of the Gaika's countrymen, who had held aloof, now came up to the assistance of their friend.

  177. When a man's house is threatened does he go four days' journey away from it in order to protect it?


  178. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "four" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    foursome; foursquare; quadrangle; quadrilateral; quadruped; quartet; quaternary; rectangle; square; squaring


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four cloves; four days; four dimensions; four drachms; four hours; four hundred and fifty; four leagues; four men; four pieces; four regiments; four species; four spoonfuls; four square; four syllables; four tons; four volumes; four years; foure hundred; foure thousand; fourscore years; fourteen hours; fourteen thousand; fourteenth century; fourth book; fourth brother; fourth teaspoon