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Example sentences for "three yards"

  • Then unwind two or three yards of it, and that part, which is near the ball, make fast to a hook.

  • At the distance of seventy-three yards, the wall ends abruptly at a large hollow place much lower than the general level of the plain, and from which is some indication of a covered way to the water.

  • After walking four miles, they crossed the creek where it is twenty-three yards wide, and waters an extensive valley.

  • They would not allow a person to approach within two or three yards of them without flying, and if grain was thrown to them they would come to it very suspiciously, or not at all.

  • I have frequently seen one alight and advance within two or three yards of the door-step, probably attracted by the smell of roasted meat.

  • The funnel-play was tried, and Dick was sent into the left wing of the visitors, making a gain of three yards.

  • But Darrell was stopped and tackled by Wettinger, who carried him back for a loss of three yards.

  • Kent went into center and made three yards, but Selden, Franklin's snap-back, stood up against Tubbs in far better style.

  • But an attempted end run resulted in a loss of three yards, as the runner tried to dodge back to avoid a tackler.

  • The temple is thirty-three yards long, and thirteen or fourteen broad.

  • Derham observed, was in some boggy ground betwixt two rocky hills; and the night was dark and calm, by which means he was enabled to advance within two or three yards of it.

  • Claflin braced then and pushed through for a first down, following it with a long forward-pass that took the pigskin to her forty-three yards.

  • This time Innes passed low and Freer kicked into the mêlée and the pigskin danced and bobbed around for many doubtful moments before Marvin snuggled it under him on the Morgan's forty-three yards.

  • Bushes lined the slopes of its shallow trough; but at the bottom, where the water ran, was a soft green carpet, in a strip two or three yards wide.

  • On the other side were two or three yards of level ground--then a short steep preparatory slope--then the verge of the precipice.

  • First was a small anteroom, divided from the inner apartment by a wainscoted archway two or three yards wide.

  • The temple was encompassed with another row of pillars, fifty feet high; but the temple itself was only thirty-three yards in length, and thirteen or fourteen in breadth.

  • Rather more than one hundred and twenty paces from this tumulus is another tumulus; the base of this is one hundred and thirty-three yards in circumference.

  • On the edge of this is a tumulus, ninety-three yards in circumference, which is called the tomb of Hector; it is formed entirely of loose stones.

  • A few minutes later a fumble returned the pigskin to Hillton on the Blue's thirty-three yards, and once more the advance was taken up.

  • The second managed to hold the varsity down to one score that day, and might have taken the ball over itself had not Pearse fumbled on the varsity's three yards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    corn meal; had once; half after; print system; three acts; three bays; three books; three colours; three cupfuls; three degrees; three distinct; three eyes; three fourths; three friends; three horses; three members; three ounces; three pairs; three parts; three pints; three rooms; three sections; three ships; three states; three women; three years