FORTY in a Sentence

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It was probable, now that Kennicott was past forty, and settled, that this would be the last venture he would ever make in building.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forty
 n.  the number that is the product of ten and four
 a.  being ten more than thirty
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  Poor Pork, trained for forty years to clean his shoes before entering the house, did not forget, even in a time like this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  'Long in 'sixty-four when Sherman come through, I was at Milledgeville jail, like I had been for forty years.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  For a brief moment she thought what a fool this old man was, to fight for a state which had taken forty years from his life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  Pete Rustad owns this farm, and he told me he saw a small covey of chickens in the west forty, last week.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  In New York I wouldn't know more than forty or fifty people, and I know that many here.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  They drove forty miles to the lake in Elder's new Cadillac.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  It was probable, now that Kennicott was past forty, and settled, that this would be the last venture he would ever make in building.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Dr. Calibree was a squat, clean-shaven, conscientious-looking man of forty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
15  Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet ahead.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Watch the monitor and tell me if the level goes above forty decibels.
2  At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
3  I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
4  We've still got another forty miles to go.
5  A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
6  He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
7  Our coach was caught in a traffic jam and got to Heathrow forty minutes late.
8  With the chill factor, it's nearly minus forty here.
9  It was forty five minutes before she returned.
10  At a guess, there were forty people at the party.
11  I was always a trim, well-built guy until I turned forty.
12  The atlas contains forty maps, including three of Great Britain.
13  The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
14  In summer, the temperature sometimes climbs up to forty degrees centigrade.
15  But turnout was extremely disappointing, only around forty five per cent of eligible voters.