Sentence Examples

1. Thus there are three times three vows the offering, the release, and the refusal, each given thrice.
2. In a thrice the key was placed in the lock and the door swung open.
3. And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practiced by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
4. One glance at him was enough for the average foe to think twice, and usually thrice, about attacking.
5. The commissary took up an iron mallet and knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantès as if struck on his heart.
6. Thrice to the floor, then slammed hard into her side.
7. Again, because it is a general complaint that the favorites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories, the same doctor proposed that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should at his departure give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech, or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness and at every levee day repeat the same operation, till the business were done or absolutely refused.
8. I computed, at his request, that about a million of yahoos might have been killed in the whole progress of it and perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and thrice as many ships burnt or sunk.
9. It was a night of joy and terror, such as this man of stupendous emotions had already experienced twice or thrice in his lifetime.
10. Suddenly he arose, lifted his hand to his brow as if his brain were giddy, paced twice or thrice round the dungeon, and then paused abruptly by the bed.