How to use "eight" in a sentence

Then I check the time: eight forty-five in the morning

I've been here for exactly forty-eight hours

At eight-thirty, he asked, 'Has anyone seen Aron?'

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

They'll wait forty-eight hours before searching

I haven't had any clean water since eight o'clock yesterday morning, only urine

Four days later, I climbed Mount Moran in Wyoming with eight of my friends.

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"Did it have eight tentacles like snakes coming out of a big round head?"

Eight and eight is sixteen

When they caught me, it needed eight of them to pull me down! Coach Fellers was really happy! He started jumping up and down and laughing

She lived in a lodging house and paid eight pennies a night

Mitre Square is eight minutes' walk from the police station

While guests and visitors ate and drank noisily, Cosette - now eight years old - sat in her usual place under the kitchen table

Seven or eight soldiers were moving slowly along the lane in his direction.

For the next three years, Marius lived in a small room in an old, damp-walled building on the outskirts of Paris - the same room that Valjean and Cosette had lived in eight years earlier

It's been eight years, but I recognized him at once.'

'Do you remember the little inn in Montfermeil eight years ago? You took away our Cosette, do you remember? Wearing that old yellow coat, pretending you were a tramp! Well, now you're going to learn that you can't make things right by just bringing a few hospital blankets! You're the cause of all my troubles

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I stole it more than eight years ago, from a bank security van

"Mr Bowen, normally we need to wait forty-eight hours until we can start a missing-person investigation."

He could cut and shuffle the deck like he had eight arms instead of two, and he could remember every card he saw in a split second and could use his fingers and little tricks to put the cards where he wanted them in the deck.

I started playing when I was seven or eight, with friends at school, online, in local competitions

She looks around the carriage: there are only eight other people there: a young couple holding hands and talking quietly on the seat opposite her; two businessmen a few seats to her right; an old lady two seats to her left; a mother and son at the far end of the carriage

Chapter eight

'It begins at eight o'clock.'

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

At ten o'clock in the morning, she was scheduled to meet with two tour-booking agents who were considering reserving eight thousand tickets to Magyck! During the first three months of its run

Joel Bandiri was with Eva, his wife of eight years, and two of their friends

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

She was about to head for the den when she noticed something odd about four framed eight-by-ten photographs that were grouped on the wall above the sofa

Puzzled, frowning thoughtfully, Vivienne put down the knife, pulled one end of the sofa away from the wall, and collected the framed eight-by-tens that were on the floor behind it

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

Although no second show was scheduled this evening, as would be the case every night henceforth, busboys and waitresses were busily clearing tables, resetting them with fresh linen and silverware for the following night's eight o'clock performance.

The sets and props had been moved from the main floor of the stage, and eight folding tables had been set up

He was sitting here for eight hours straight."

This eight-year-old girl died unexpectedly of a congenital kidney disease

The conversations were like those in which he was involved at work, eight or ten hours a day, five days a week and he didn't intend to spend a holiday nattering about the same damned things.

The guy was about five feet eight with a narrow face and a neatly trimmed blond beard

Elliot's Mercedes was parked at the far curb, and she was six or eight feet from the car when the sudden outward-sweeping shock of the explosion shoved her forward

He was eight or nine years old, and he was curious about the details of a dealer's job

He lived here for eight or nine years before he decided to apply for citizenship

"There's eight or ten inches of snow on the ground

A young sailor apparently had a run going at one of the craps tables, and a crowd of excited gamblers urged him to roll an eight and make his point.

At eight-thirty Friday morning, Tina came awake, smiling and excited

They were no more than six or eight feet from the lighted shack, close enough to see the guard's face as he scowled at them through the large window.

Jeeps, Land Rovers, and other four-wheel drive vehicles - eight in all - were lined up in front of the low building, side-by-side in the falling snow.

He arrived at eight o'clock that evening.

By eight o'clock a number of boys and unemployed men were already walking to the common to see the 'dead men from Mars'

At about eight o'clock the sound of tiring could be heard clearly ail over the south of London

But three certainly came out at about eight o'clock

We crossed Richmond Bridge at about half-past eight

Around the mouth were sixteen thin, whip-like tentacles, arranged in two groups of eight

Harris said, 'Oh, how boring! In the country everyone goes to bed at eight o'clock

At eight o'clock the messenger went to Pesca's house

He returned at eight-thirty with the unopened letter

There were eight children in her family, and, when Nancy was young, they were very poor

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