English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Three" in Example Sentences
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1096092	The doctor told Tom not to eat or drink anything for three hours.	CK	1
1027005	Tom bought a bag of apples and he ate a third of them in one day.	CK	1
953256	Even though there were many cookies on the dish, I only ate three.	CK	1
3148322	Tom lived in Boston for three years before moving back to Chicago.	CK	1
3148304	Tom stopped over in Boston for three days on his way to Australia.	CK	1
3148295	Tom was adopted by a couple in Boston when he was three years old.	CK	1
2406560	I spent three weeks in this hospital when I was thirteen years old.	CK	1
2537076	Tom got on the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor.	CK	1
2300094	I called you three or four times, but you never answered your phone.	CK	1
290537	The translation of the French novel took him more than three months.	CK	1
1026524	Tom decided that he was going to study French for three hours a day.	CK	1
1023912	Tom went for three weeks without shaving before his wife complained.	CK	1
3185494	Tom is staying with his relatives in Boston for the next three weeks.	CK	1
2451067	After studying French for three years, Tom could speak it fairly well.	CK	1
2451066	It took me more than three hours to translate that report into French.	CK	1
1030093	It was during the rainy season three years ago that Tom first met Mary.	CK	1
2059865	There are three health food stores within walking distance of my house.	CK	1
3023357	Tom spent three years in the Boston working as an undercover policeman.	CK	1
1096070	The police were at Tom's door within three minutes after the phone call.	CK	1
1029369	Tom danced with Mary and only three other girls at the high school prom.	CK	1
1027025	Tom began to look for a job three months before he graduated from college.	CK	1
1026502	Tom deposited three thousand dollars in the bank just before closing time.	CK	1
1102326	Tom has been an inmate of a high-security prison for the past three years.	CK	1
2992004	I don't know how long Tom lived in Boston, but it was at least three years.	CK	1
2986703	Tom has finally returned to Boston after living in Chicago for three years.	CK	1
1855346	Tom was already drinking his third beer before Mary had even finished her first.	CK	1
2451057	The teacher claimed that he'd have us all speaking fluent French in three months.	CK	1
2451053	Even though I studied French for three years in school, I'm not good at speaking it.	CK	1
1026685	Tom claims he doesn't watch much TV, but he watches more than three hours every day.	CK	1
2853106	Tom attended high school for three years without missing a single day or ever being late.	CK	1
1029458	Tom compared a picture taken of Mary three years ago with one that had been taken recently.	CK	1
953083	After I graduated from college, I moved back home and lived with my parents for three years.	CK	1
1027028	Tom began reading that book three weeks ago and he still has only read less than half of it.	CK	1
1042403	If we don't receive Tom's reply within the next three days, I think we should write him again.	CK	1
2047765	There were three hundred cardboard boxes filled with old clothes ready to be sent to the disaster area.	CK	1
284809	He had three sons.	CK
2259136	She has three kids.	_undertoad
749759	She's thirty-three.	sctld
72698	Let's make it three.	CM
2268708	There will be three.	_undertoad
1434382	Three weeks went by.	CM
20121	You have three cars.	CK
70261	You have three pens.	CM
72695	Call her up at three.	CK
848775	I've run three miles.	Guybrush88
72664	There were three men.	CK
716122	We have three planes.	papabear
370734	I carried three books.	saeb
1956037	I only had three left.	CK
2011660	I want a third choice.	CK