SEVEN in a Sentence

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For SEVEN, below is one of 302 sentences:
Every summer, for seven summers now, Isa had heard the same words; about the hammer and the nails; the pageant and the weather.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEVEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seven
 n.  a number that is one more than six
 n.  the seventh in a set or series
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No purse, but loose money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  "Nine from seven," cried the sentinel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  Then they sang 'Beasts of England' from end to end seven times running, and after that they settled down for the night and slept as they had never slept before.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  Six or seven bedrooms opened out of the corridor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  Every summer, for seven summers now, Isa had heard the same words; about the hammer and the nails; the pageant and the weather.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  Three hours till seven, he noted; then water the plants.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  Automatically he consulted his watch; noted time to water at seven; and observed the little game of the woman following the man to the table in the West as in the East.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
9  A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
10  Six days, seven days, far on into another week.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
11  Thrice a-week are Templars permitted the use of flesh; but do thou keep fast for all the seven days.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  The astonishment of Ivanhoe was beyond bounds, when he saw his master besprinkled with blood, and six or seven dead bodies lying around in the little glade in which the battle had taken place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  But in the morning, all the same, she was up at seven, and going downstairs to Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
16  She could suffer irreversible brain damage if she is not treated within seven days.
17  A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.
18  To be elected to the House a person must be twenty-five years old and must have been a United States citizen for seven years.
19  Staff voted to continue an unofficial strike in support of seven colleagues who were dismissed last week.
20  The rules are set out in detail in chapter seven.
21  The park director position has been a revolving door for seven appointees.
22  In the largest room about a dozen children and seven adults are sitting on the carpet.
23  We can go to the seven o'clock performance or the eight - whichever suits you best.
24  They consolidated seven provinces to form four new ones.
25  It's difficult for them to get here much before seven.
26  He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
27  The city of Ch'eng Tu lies some seven hundred miles to the South-East.
28  A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
29  May I call your attention to item seven on the agenda.
30  When I was a kid, about six or seven, she would often let me steer the car along our driveway.