How to use "fifty" in a sentence

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The cards - all fifty-two of them - came down on top of Alice

Then we got orders to move the machine gun about fifty metres to the left of the big tree that was in the middle of the valley, and to find a safe place to put it before the enemy blew us all up.

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

While the fifty men behind the barricade waited impatiently for the arrival of sixty thousand soldiers, Enjolras approached the tall, grey-haired man.

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

Maybe fifty degrees

Maybe even fifty-five.

After he retired about ten years ago, he was still a young man, fifty-three, and he needed something else to occupy his time

They stared out at the dark parking lot and at the fenced storage yard full of fifty-gallon drums that lay beyond the lot

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

It was little more than one lane wide, and the trees formed a tunnel around it, so that after fifty or sixty feet, it disappeared into premature night

A hundred and fifty yards farther, they reached another sharp turn

One passageway extended fifty feet to the left of the door and fifty feet to the right; on both sides were more doors, all shut, plus a bank of four elevators on the right

Forty thousand or fifty thousand square feet to search

It had been only fifteen or twenty feet above the pavement, but it rapidly climbed forty, fifty, sixty feet.

Denning, our greatest astronomer, said that the height of its first appearance was about one hundred and fifty kilometres

The Heat- Ray came down to the water's edge less than fifty metres from where I stood

There was a sharp bend in the road, less than fifty metres from the crossroads

Here is a fifty-year-old 'big man' who thinks he is somebody

They were together for fifty-one years, until he died in 1980

Even he - a fifty-five-year-old man - could win against the best female players

The twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean beat the fifty-five-year-old Bobby 6-4, 6 - 3, 6-3