Use "threes" in a sentence

1. She noticed there were always three or four tables with only a few people at them, by twos and threes

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2. By the fifth inning the score was tied at threes and Johnny was starting

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3. Crouched in little huddled clumps of threes and fours, the tattered forms of 'conscripts' scraped, cracked, chewed and sifted out even the smallest bits of ore from the mounds of rock and debris surrounding them

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4. 'My Ma used to say, y'know, "Tragedy comes in threes"

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5. It seemed that there were one of three ways to do it: number one — go for gold and just plunge your hand under that hen, grabbing the eggs in twos or threes and quickly putting them into your feed bucket; number two — reaching in and pulling the hen out by the neck until it got up and out on its own, or until it was forced out in one quick yank, and then, you enjoy the pleasantness of having a free for all at the unattended eggs; and number three (my personal favorite) — was to make enough noise by either beating on the nesting box with the shovel handle, or by yelling and screaming like a little girl at the sight of a spider as you try to do it the number one or two way

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6. These were dispersed in twos and threes under the trees

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7. The Trinitarian understanding of God’s natures appears to have been the intent from the beginning, and the “Parable of Threes” appears to have been the instrument of communication!

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8. Were they aware of the “Trinity of threes,” the three crosses, three among his last words “it is finished,” and the three days of the resurrection, that I presented in the previous chapter? Or were they given a gift of insight into this matter that might have taken some time to fully understand, promulgate and accept?

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9. They are huddled in threes and fours, people standing, sprawled across the ground, the ambient sound of slapping skin on skin contact, you can’t tell if it was the music or something in the air

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10. “These, one by one, by twos and threes, will feel the ‘Shift’ to fearlessness which indicates their consciousness no longer hears the Sesavah: that ye are frail, with brittle bones; are ‘old’ at only forty-five; that ye can die a million ways; are ugly, short, or overweight; that greed is just; that hate is right; ‘tis chic to lie, to cheat and steal; to win, another has to lose; etcetera…etcetera

11. Threes: Roving reporter – sits in another part of the room and gives more details on the groups ‘story’ and also interviews the ‘witness’ or ‘subject expert’

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12. clucking, and then, one by one at first, then in twos and threes they flew up

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13. Customers in twos and threes left and entered the restaurant

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14. During those lonely hours of patient waiting I saw patrol cars on numerous occasions; sometimes in pairs and occasionally in threes

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15. groups, of threes and fours, across the court

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16. He played Morning Of The Earth, down low, through Nancy’s old Stonehenge Threes

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17. game, was simple to pack into a camp site by the threes or even

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18. That day, as we separated into twos or threes, we walked among the houses and people of this downcast but clean town, listening as God spoke His word-of-knowledge of the truth behind this unfortunate situation

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19. They arrived by ones and twos and threes, seamlessly joining the growing formation of hunters

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20. Wrinkles were now developing in threes

21. Everything is in threes

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22. One, two, threes, tens

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23. As the alcohol drifted from Byron’s glass to the youthful drinkers both Flower and Candy remembered what it was like to get drunk, no questions were asked of Byron as to why he ordered his drinks in threes, and as to why the Ice teas were filled only occasionally

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24. because threes are the wild card in life this year

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25. Her conscience is strong, her actions bright, her decisions made with haste that are uncanny and far beyond those who have entered the world before her—she is, by all definitions, a girl who holds the golden wool, and whose string follows her intently and without regret, and with this wool she believes that should she be lost, she will be able to find her way back, as there is but one path within Wraethworld that she knows does not divide by twos or threes or even fours and fives

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26. interesting that you can count by threes extremely fast in

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27. Groups in twos and threes were moving around looking at the cars

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28. Also, infers other threes associated with the Vatican such as the Christian

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29. The book is made up mostly of speeches by his threes

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30. Threes are wild

31. of speeches by his threes friends accusing Job of sin because of what had happened to

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32. The book is made up mostly of speeches by his threes friends

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33. his threes friends accusing Job of sin and Job's response to them

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34. Much of Job’s book is made up of speeches by his threes friends accusing Job of sin because of what had happened to him, and that he was at that time being punished for something he had did, and Job's response to them accusing him of sin

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35. “Everything comes in threes,” he said to himself

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36. The book is made up mostly of speeches by his threes friends accusing Job of sin and Job's response to them

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37. I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together

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38. After lunch, people strolled about, by twos and threes, through the house and garden, enjoying the sunshine without and within

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39. In a few minutes the women began to come in by twos and threes, wiping their steaming hands in their petticoats and pulling down the sleeves of their blouses over their red steaming arms

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40. "Those are really aces and twos which you see, but my shots have turned them into threes, fives, sevens, eights, nines, and tens

41. work in threes, with one on a ladder

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42. In the evening, the boys spill out of the hall, some met by proud-looking parents with automobiles, others vanishing purposefully in twos and threes into the streets: all seem to know where they’re going

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43. the whole front of Toad Hall, glowing in the evening sunshine, the pigeons settling by twos and threes along the straight line of the roof; the garden, a blaze of flowers; the creek that led up to the boat-house, the little wooden bridge that crossed it; all tranquil, uninhabited, apparently waiting for his return

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44. The thirty guys were still there below them, still corralled together in small independent groups, twos and threes and fours, collectively surrounding the little green Ford in a rough and distant semicircle

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45. People were passing in twos and threes, in whole parties of men and women attended by trotting children

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46. Men had been dropping in singly, or in twos and threes: the higher officials of the province, engineers of the railway, sunburnt and in tweeds, with the frosted head of their chief smiling with slow, humorous indulgence amongst the young eager faces

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47. Parishioners dropped in by twos and threes, deposited themselves in rows before her, rested three-quarters of a minute on their foreheads as if they were praying, though they were not; then sat up, and looked around

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48. The denim boys on roller skates, the hustlers in twos and threes with their come-hither glances

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49. Fours, threes, and twos

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50. Again, fours, threes, and twos

51. The entire summary page was splattered with threes, twos, and ones

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52. Others were still coming in by twos and threes through a dark narrow door on one side

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53. I saw a lot of threes that day

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54. After that, the rest of Grace’s family left in slow twos and threes

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55. Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers

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56. The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned- or so it seemed to Rostov

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57. The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half-ruined houses

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58. She was the center of a bargain sale, ladies clustering in twos and threes, everyone talking, laughing, offering, accepting at once

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59. Profit warnings tend to come in threes

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60. The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm

61. He could see the whole front of Toad Hall, glowing in the evening sunshine, the pigeons settling by twos and threes along the straight line of the roof; the garden, a blaze of flowers; the creek that led up to the boat-house, the little wooden bridge that crossed it; all tranquil, uninhabited, apparently waiting for his return

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62. The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest

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63. Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last things on board

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64. How shall we afterward break up the four cubes? They can be formed of threes: for this purpose we take three and one, or one and three

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65. It is very pleasant for me, with my firm conviction that I am teaching and doing an important and very modern work, to tell the children from the book about the suslik, or about a horse's having four legs, or to transpose the cubes by twos and by threes, and ask the children how much two and two is; but if, instead of telling about the suslik, the teacher had to tell or read something interesting, to give the foundations of grammar, geography, sacred history, and of the four operations, he would at once be led to working over himself, to reading much, and to refreshing his knowledge

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66. Clerks, lads not in the service, or home for the holiday, bright-faced and wearing smart white or new red Circassian gold-trimmed coats, went about arm in arm in twos or threes from one group of women or girls to another, and stopped to joke and chat with the Cossack girls

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67. No matter how much we are accustomed to read in French novels about how families live by threes, and how there is always a lover, whom all but the husband know, it still remains quite incomprehensible to us how it is that all husbands are always fools, cocus, and ridicules, and all lovers, who in the end marry and become husbands, are neither ridicules nor cocus, but heroes

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68. The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned—or so it seemed to Rostóv

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69. Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads

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70. “I suppose that’s a compliment to my number threes,” she smiled; “so I’d explain the letters on them if I could; but they came from Veynes with the fan, so I can only guess—perhaps they stand for the motto of his house

71. A critical examination will show that the composition is on the pyramidal principle, and the arrangement of groups principally in threes

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