How to use "seven" in a sentence

To free my hand, I must remove a piece of rock over fifteen centimetres wide and seven centimetres deep

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Outside, six or seven small squid moved along the top of the Nautilus, throwing all their tentacles at the ship and its men

It took me about seven minutes to win the first game, and half an hour to win the next

I did not see Mr Slinkton again for six or seven months

At that time he was looking after his sister, whose husband had died, and her seven children

Mme Thenardier still said nothing, but a man's voice from inside the house called, 'We'll take seven francs a month, and six months in advance.'

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

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During the night, the thirty-seven remaining rebels strengthened the main barricade and made more bullets

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

It is seven thirty-six: her train should be here in two minutes.

"No, man, seven."

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I fell asleep at about seven o'clock

Just before seven, the rain began to fall heavily

By a quarter to seven, she had gone.'

But in her mind's eye, the seven letters reappeared on the chalkboard: NOT DEAD

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

By seven-thirty, the backstage area was bustling

How about seven-thirty?"

The game minimum was a five-dollar bet, and all seven seats were taken

Suddenly, as the screen began to fill with the same seven-line message that had just been wiped from it, Tina had enough

Every winter for sixteen years, he had taken a group of scouts to northern Nevada, beyond Reno, into the High Sierras, on a seven-day wilderness survival excursion.

For the past six or seven weeks, he hasn't been able to keep anything but liquids in his stomach

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

'The letter arrived on 10th March 1883, and he died seven weeks later,' answered John Openshaw.

'Somebody sent some pips from India, and arrived seven weeks later to kill Uncle Elias

I have tried seven times already, but to please you I will try again

It was nearly seven when I returned

'Five minutes past seven

I heard about it ten minutes ago, at five to seven

Discovery of the body was at about a quarter to seven

'But, Haydock,' The colonel said, 'if Redding admits shooting him at a quarter to seven...'

'Now,' Melchett said, 'You say you went to the vicarage at about a quarter to seven

She counted her fingers, 'One, two, three, four, five, six - yes, and a possible seven

I can think of at least seven people who might be very happy to have Colonel Protheroe dead.'

Miss Hartnell says she stayed there until seven o'clock, and Redding went with Stone to the Blue Boar for a drink

'I wish you would tell me,' I said, 'who your seven suspects are.'

And the next thing is to find out what everyone was doing that evening between six and seven

I'm asking everyone where they were yesterday evening between the hours of six and seven p.m.'

'You said between six and seven, Inspector

And the 6.50 train was half an hour late! I didn't get home until half-past seven.'

'Miss Marple, who do you suspect? You said that there were seven people.'

'The seven suspects!' I murmured.

And at a quarter-past seven I saw her walking to Old Hall

The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I moved perhaps seven metres before I could get under the surface

At about seven o'clock last night the Martians came out of the cylinder and, moving around in metal machines, completely destroyed Woking station and the houses around it, and killed around 600 soldiers

A similar tube was given to each of the three, and the seven spread out at equal distances along a curved line between Weybridge and Ripley.

So he escaped from the worst of the panic in London and reached Edgware at about seven

'Well,' explained Holmes, 'I think this pipe costs around seven-and-sixpence

We reached Paddington Station at seven o'clock

In 2017, Jacinda Ardern became the prime minister of New Zealand when she was thirty-seven years old

He had helped to choose the first seven astronauts

Also, about 50 million people watched it on TV in the USA, and about 90 million in thirty-seven other countries watched it

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