How To Use forty-seven In A Sentence
- (ch.vi. 1) to Hezekiah's sickness and recovery was forty-seven years; how much before, and after, he prophesied, is not certain; some reckon sixty, others eighty years in all. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps. The New Yorker
- The term laborer as used in chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by chapter forty-seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen and by chapter twenty - one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, providing for the pensioning of laborers in the employ of cities and towns and as used in chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of the Pensioning of foremen, in - spectors, me - chanics, draw - tenders, assistant drawtenders and store - keepers in employ of cities and towns. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
- The forty-seven samurai of Asano's bodyguard, now reduced to the status of ronin, or masterless samurai, decided that their code of honour demanded revenge.
- Forty-seven percent of movers with a college degree moved to a new county, either within the same state or in another state, compared with 34 percent of those with less than a high school education who did so.
- At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables.
- I was hiding in the bathroom for something like the forty-seventh consecutive night, and—just as during all those nights before—I was sobbing.
- She was very sexy, at forty-seven.
- He was forty-seven but he acted like he was seventy-four, and his voice was so plummy River had always wondered if he was putting it on.
- The forty-seven year old Oscar-winning actress recently ended her fourteen year relationship with rumored lesbian lover Cydney Bernard, 55, after embarking on a passionate affair with younger lipstick lezzie Cindy Mort, The National Enquirer claims. Jodie Foster Dina Lohan Diss
