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Example sentences for "three words"

  • Passed if in two out of the three parts of the experiment the child finds three words which rhyme with the word given, the time limit for each series being one minute.

  • Three words, test of using, in a sentence, 242 ff.

  • Note that in each case there must be three words in addition to the word given.

  • There were two or three words in her short remark that always sober people, and suggest silence or brief moral reflections.

  • When the poet that is to be has got so as to perform this task easily, a skeleton verse, in which two or three words of each line are omitted, is given the child to fill up.

  • But when two or three words meet, in which we have either of these compound sounds, the difficulty becomes very obvious; as the nachural feachurs of indivijuals.

  • This sentiment of self-preservation is under the control of an essential principle which may be expressed in three words--to lose nothing.

  • An agreement was made by three words uttered in a low voice that none of them should leave the chamber.

  • My whole system," he said to me in a whisper, "was suggested to me by three words which my father heard Napoleon pronounce at a crowded council of state, when divorce was the subject of conversation.

  • Luke which are identical with the same number of words arranged in identical order, in Matthew; except that Luke has omitted (or Matthew has supplied) three words, without affecting the meaning of the passage.

  • In Matthew's Gospel it contains sixty-three words; in Luke's sixty-four.

  • The first visit of Jesus to the temple (Mk xi, 11) is mentioned by Mark in three words only.

  • If your worship can get out of your allegories, be pleased to tell me, in three words, what you mean.

  • In three words, madam,--I am a gentleman, and have five hundred pounds in my pocket.

  • As for the play, in three words, it has been, I think I may say, a rare and distinguished private success and scarcely anything at all of a public one.

  • I wonder if you are capable of writing me three words?

  • He has made the revelation with the lucky number of thirty-three words, and left room for a final remark full of scriptural tone, as is his wont.

  • I'll put the case before you in three words.

  • I'll tell it in three words: She was on the quay, just come after a severe night at sea, when I was trying to make a bargain with a fisherman to take me over to the island.

  • I have only a few words to tell you, two or three words: once upon a time three people ate.

  • For some time the youth stood silent, with downcast eyes, then he bethought himself, and answered in three words: "I want to study!

  • My lord and master is in good health, I trust since that I did him see; Will you walk with me to an out-side, Two or three words to talk with me?

  • Ruffhead altered two or three words, which are here restored from the original.

  • I recollect, however, two or three words, which you might not, perhaps, have met with.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three words" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broadly speaking; first century; three brothers; three cloves; three cups; three daughters; three degrees; three great; three heads; three hundred and thirty; three hundred thousand francs; three hundred thousand men; three inches; three little; three men; three miles; three minutes; three ounces; three pieces; three quarters; three slices; three sorts; three specimens; three things; three waters; well stirred