How to use "six" in a sentence

I'll drink at nine, midnight, three and six in the morning, but I'll take even smaller sips.

I kill five or six as they circle around my head

At six-thirty that evening, they called the police

It has taken me two and a half hours to travel six kilometres

Two minutes later, six large men with black masks came out, took us by the arms and took us down inside the ship.

We had to wait six days for the water to rise before the ship could leave

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Inside it, I saw an oyster over six feet wide

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

I stayed in that school for five or six years

But when I was thirteen, I grew six inches in six months! And by the time I was sixteen, I was bigger and heavier than all the other boys in the school.

There was a big metal thing about six feet tall and five feet round, sitting in the corner.

So I sat down and waited for five or six hours.

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

By six o'clock he was ready for work and went downstairs to the backyard

He was about thirty-six, 1.65m tall, stout, with a carrot-coloured moustache

Will you do that for me? I could pay six francs a month.'

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.'

She was taken to the police station, where Inspector Javert, the chief of police, sent her to prison for six months.

I was angry with you six weeks ago when you told me to release that woman

Paying her six months in advance, he told her that he was a ruined Spanish gentleman, and that the little girl was his granddaughter.

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When he returned, one summer morning six months later, he saw the same couple sitting on the same bench, but something amazing had happened

The man was the same, but the thin, plain girl of six months earlier had become a beautiful young woman

My warm-hearted neighbour, I have heard of how you kindly paid my rent for me six months ago

In the bright mist that clouded his vision, Marius could hardly see the features of the sweet face that had lit his life for six months and had then disappeared, filling his life with darkness

'She had an accident in the machine-shop where she works for six sous an hour, 'Jondrette explained

'He said he'll be here at six o'clock, with sixty francs

It was nearly six o'clock

Suddenly, at exactly six o'clock, the door into the Jondrettes' room opened.

For six weeks, he had known nothing but uncomplicated happiness

There were only twenty-six men left, and the main attack on the barricade was going to take place very soon

It is ten-to-six now; the boats stop going out at six

But it is nearly six now.

Oh my, look, here we are, table six

She must be only twenty-five or twenty-six

You try to see the clock in the dark, but it is impossible, and you think that it must be somewhere between four and six o'clock: the darkest hours of the night when even the lively and vibrant city of Manchester sleeps.

We tell them they only have six hours

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

In a simulator, it was hard to forget that there were four walls just five or six steps away - but in a pod, you lost your awareness of the world around you

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six

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'Mr de Winter will be back at about six this evening,' Frith told me.

It was after six when I heard the sound of Maxim's car

Dr Baker used to live there, but he left six months ago

I woke up early the following morning at about six o'clock

In six months, she would have been dead.'

There was a long-distance call for her at six

At six minutes past midnight, Tuesday morning, on the way home from a late rehearsal of her new stage show, Tina Evans saw her son, Danny, in a stranger's car

When Danny was six months old, Tina went into training to get back in shape, and after three arduous months of exercise, she won a place in the chorus line of a new Vegas spectacle

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.

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

This display had always contained six pictures, not just four

Unless he'd changed shifts in the past six months, he didn't go to work until noon

She found it after another twenty-six names.

For five or six months, I was an emotional wreck because every object in the house reminded me of Nancy

Tina was supposed to arrive at six

Standing at the sink, he peeled and chopped a small onion, cleaned six stalks of celery, and peeled several slender carrots

The big man had been overconfident, certain that his six-inch advantage in height and his extra eighty pounds of muscle made him unbeatable

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

Eleven customers were clustered at the end of the long arm of the L, near the entrance, five on stools at the counter, six in the red booths

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

George, on the other hand, hadn't filled a post of genuine stature and authority until six years ago, when he was thirty-six

Then, six years ago, the Network had been formed, and the President had given George the task of developing a reliable South American bureau of the new intelligence agency

Plows had kept the blacktop clean, except for scattered patches of hard-packed snow that filled the potholes, and snow was piled five or six feet high on both sides.

"The spot that showed up on the boy's parietal lobe about six weeks ago."

It appeared after his first series of shots six weeks ago

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.

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

And when the host expires, the Wuhan-400 within him perishes a short while later, as soon as the temperature of the corpse drops below eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit

He was six years old.

When he did tell me, Miquette had been successfully transmitted five or six times.

So, I'll come to the vicarage this evening, as we arranged, at a quarter past six.' And he walked away.

Low Farm was nearly two miles away and I could not possibly get back by six-fifteen

So I told Mary that I would try to be back by six-thirty, and left.

'He has been here since a quarter past six.'

Twenty- two minutes past six

Because when that clock said twenty past six it was really only five minutes past, and at five minutes past I don't suppose Colonel Protheroe had even arrived at the house.'

'It must have been after six - quarter past - something like that.'

At just after a quarter past six

'At twenty minutes past six

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

'Miss Marple saw him and Mrs Protheroe leave the studio just after six-thirty

'But the doctor says that Protheroe was shot before six-thirty.'

'At twenty minutes past six?' said Miss Marple

'Mary had told him that you wouldn't be in till half-past six, and he was willing to wait until then

And yet at twenty past six he sits down and says he "can't wait any longer".'

So I met Mrs Protheroe that evening at a quarter past six and told her my decision

At a quarter past six

About half-past six

'About half-past six.'

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

'Then if a lady - Miss Hartnell perhaps - said that she came here about six o'clock, rang the bell, but got no answer - you would say she was mistaken?'

'She rang at least six times before she went away.'

Mrs Protheroe said that she had last seen her husband at about a quarter to six when they parted in the village street

She had gone to the vicarage at about a quarter past six and thought that the study was empty

Colonel Protheroe had arrived at a quarter past six exactly

'Oh, I'm going to live here for another six months! I don't want to

'When the six months are over, I am going to marry Lawrence.'

'It must have been nearly six o'clock

I went straight home afterwards, and Mrs Protheroe called at about half-past six to borrow a gardening magazine

This was just before six o'clock.'

It was written at six thirty- five and another person - the murderer - put the incorrect time 6.20 at the top.'

That was at twenty past six

He wouldn't have needed to tell you that he couldn't wait any longer until after half-past six

It said that Griselda had been seen leaving Lawrence Redding's cottage at twenty past six on the day of the murder

Just before twenty past six, she walked past my garden and stopped to speak to me

'But mother sent a note to me, and I arranged to leave the tennis party early and meet her near the vicarage at a quarter past six

We left each other before half-past six

The attack came six years ago

The time then was around six o'clock

I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train

At about six in the evening, as I had tea with my wife in the garden, I heard an explosion from the common, and immediately after that the sound of gunfire

It was already raising the case which sent the Heat-Ray when the first shell burst six metres above its head.

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

All of the six million people who lived in the great city were beginning to move

She fired from six metres away, narrowly missing my brother

None of the wars of history had such an effect - six million people, moving without weapons or food or any real sense of direction

They sent a small boat and agreed on a price of thirty-six pounds for the three passengers

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

I heard six bangs and then six more

These green stars - I've seen none for five or six days, but I've no doubt they're falling somewhere every night

She met me after six months in England

Well, about six weeks ago she came and asked me for some.

Every six hours: lb of good, fresh meat, pint of beer

'Wake us up at half past six, George,' we said.

I woke up at six o'clock the next morning, and George did, too

We found only six of them.

He put six eggs into the frying pan

'Hei Mercy.' And the door opened to show the face of Connie, her big sister, six years older, and now heavy with her second child

Laura has changed in the last six months

I am afraid to come back this afternoon, so I am leaving you this note at six in the morning

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She was twenty-six.

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