How To Use forty-eight In A Sentence
- All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.
- Nevertheless, within forty-eight hours of the first landings, all the beachheads were secured.
- Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
- During those forty-eight hours, the big howitzer, which is the type of the heavy German siege train -- the 225 mm. -- was brought up, and it is possible that a couple of the still larger Austrian pieces of 280 mm. (what we call in this country the 11-inch), which are constructed with flat treadles to their wheels to fire from mats laid on any reasonably hard surface (such as a roadway), had been brought up as well. A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase
- She closeted herself in her hotel room for as long as forty-eight hours at a stretch. ISAAC CAMPION
- With luck we can blindside the Zolars for forty-eight hours while we figure a scam to entice them over the border. INCA GOLD
- Forty-eight hours before UVB exposure, mice were shaved with electric clippers and chemically depilated.
- The temple of Sri Ranngam is situated a mile from the bridge and three miles from the fort, the entrance being through a gopura forty-eight feet high; the sides of this passage, one hundred feet long and forty-three feet high, are richly ornamented. Travels in the Far East
- The British transport, bound from Vladivostok to Hong-Kong, was destined to swing on her mudhook forty-eight hours. The Pagan Madonna
- For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides. Longfellow
