Sentence example with the word 'threes'

threes

Last update: September 1, 2015


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The parts of the flower are most frequently arranged in fives, or multiples of fives; for instance, a common arrangement is as follows, - five sepals, succeeded by five petals, ten stamens in two sets of five, and five or fewer carpels; an arrangement in fours is less frequent, while the arrangement in threes, so common in monocotyledons, is rare in dicotyledons.   [Please select]

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Thereupon we were bound in threes to stakes, to suffer execution.   [Please select]

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But when they scatters about in twos, an' threes, an sixes, ye may shoot them every day as much as ye please.'   [Please select]

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All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter.   [Please select]

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From other valleys and even from distant islands the curious came in threes and fours.   [Please select]

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The greyhounds, three sorts, sixty-seven in number, were brought down on leashes by threes, fours or fives, and loaded in two cars.   [Please select]

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After lunch, people strolled about, by twos and threes, through the house and garden, enjoying the sunshine without and within.   [Please select]

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