How to use "ten" in a sentence

By two-thirty, I have covered nearly ten kilometres

After about ten minutes, Eric helps me up and we continue walking slowly.

After ten days in hospital, I went home

We travelled in the Indian Ocean for ten days

Chapter ten

First, ten men with clubs in their hands came into the garden

There were ten of them, and they had red diamonds on their clothes

He probably killed ten or fifteen enemy soldiers

By the end of the next week, we were getting ten dollars a day

A boy of about ten years old was coming along a footpath with a small box on his back and dirty knees showing through holes in his trousers

He was a boy of about ten, a chimney sweep

The Thenardiers wrote her a frightening letter in which they told her that Cosette had no clothes, and that they needed ten francs immediately to buy her a new dress

Fantine, who did not have ten francs, but who was afraid that her daughter would freeze to death, went to the barber's shop

Chapter ten

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

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

He has at least ten minutes; no jury can make a decision in less than ten minutes.

I believe Father O'Connor passed away nearly ten years ago."

She can get it as she passes the restaurant, buy a bottle of wine from the local shop and be in bed by ten o'clock.

For ten minutes she reads her crime novel

The doors slide open, and ten or twelve students from Chancery High School enter the carriage.

It is 2088, thirty years since the end of the ten-year Oil Wars.

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

Then ten

After another ten minutes, the woman stepped off her machine

Mrs Van Hopper had been in bed for about ten days

Chapter ten

About ten o'clock, the telephone rang again

'Mr de Winter deserves his pain, marrying a young girl like you - and only ten months afterwards

'Colonel Julyan will be here in ten minutes,' he said.

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

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

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

She was also worried about being responsible for a ten-million-dollar budget

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

In this one, he was ten or eleven years old, a sweet brown-haired boy with dark eyes and a lovely smile.

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

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

By ten-thirty most of the audience had left and those who hadn't gone yet were in line, moving up the steps toward the rear doors of the showroom

She didn't dream anymore, and when she woke at ten o'clock, she was refreshed and newly excited by the previous night's success.

Tina arrived at Bally's Hotel at ten minutes till two, Wednesday afternoon, leaving her Honda with a valet parking attendant.

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

Bill Jaborski was supposed to be one of the ten top winter-survival experts in the country

She felt more relaxed than she'd been ten minutes ago, but she wasn't even slightly tipsy

Or ten

He enjoyed discussing antiques and paintings with her, and an hour passed in what seemed to be only ten minutes.

On hot summer days, these barren, sandy slopes seemed godforsaken, and they would not be made lush and green for another ten years at least

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 entire battle had taken less than ten seconds.

The man in the kitchen was still unconscious and would probably remain that way for another ten or fifteen minutes

It rang three more times during the ten seconds that she took to reach the front door.

Too late, he saw the sign at the fourth intersection - NOT A THROUGH STREET - but they were already around the corner and headed down the narrow dead end, with nothing but a row of ten modest stucco houses on each side.

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

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

There were three sheets of paper, each containing ten or twelve typewritten questions.

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

He expected to see the entire white-shrouded lawn begin to move and rise in the forms of ten, fifteen, twenty other assassins.

They were in a ten-passenger jet that belonged to the Network, and the aircraft took a battering from the high-altitude winds that blew across its assigned flight corridor

At ten o'clock, he was awakened by the telephone

He was driving at only ten miles an hour, but she gave him so little warning that he passed the turnoff

Alexander was increasingly confident that they would reach the installation unscathed, and he was aware that even Kurt Hensen, who hated flying with Morgan, was calmer now than he had been ten minutes ago.

The chopper hugged the valley floor, streaking northward, ten feet above an ice-blocked river, still forced to make its way through a snowfall that nearly blinded them, but sheltered from the worst of the storm's turbulence by the walls of mammoth evergreens that flanked the river

'For one ten-millionth of a second, that ashtray has been completely disintegrated

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

And if you examined it at ten minutes to..

About ten o'clock last night, Redding comes in, throws down a pistol, and says to the police, "Here I am

Five or ten minutes afterwards

'About ten minutes later

For the next ten minutes, they were careful to be seen by people in the village, then at last Mr Redding went back to the vicarage

For ten nights they saw a flame each night

As my brother began to realize how serious the situation was, he returned quickly to his room, put all the money he had - about ten pounds - into his pockets and went out again into the streets.

By ten o'clock the police were finding it hard to keep control.

I divided the food in the cupboard into separate amounts to last us ten days

'Stop!' he cried, when I was within ten metres of him, and I stopped

It was a passage about ten metres long, designed to reach the main drain on Putney Hill

I saw about ten along Fulham Road

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

It is our home and would be ours even if the Martians were ten times as strong as they are.

'No one has been here for ten days

Every morning: ten-mile walk

(George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o'clock to four o'clock, Monday to Friday, except on Saturdays

Harris said to his friend, 'We'll go in and walk around for ten minutes

Harris said, 'Follow me! I'm going out in ten minutes.' The people thanked him and started following him

After ten minutes of hard work, Harris was inside the cover! He was fighting to get out

We went to bed at ten o'clock

He got very ill and died ten days later.

'We'll return at half past ten for the dog and for a good supper,' I told the restaurant owner.

After ten days of eating cold meat, we were thankful for this supper

If you die before your aunt Eleanor - Madame Fosco - she'll inherit ten thousand pounds of that money

And then, instead of leaving ten thousand pounds to his sister directly, he left the money to Laura

'Yes, and your wife gets ten thousand pounds!' cried Sir Percival

Emmeline was the oldest of ten children

I thank God that I am living it." She fought for that day for more than ten years.

She saw her first aeroplane at the age of ten

In 2018, a very famous man in American TV, Bill Cosby, was convicted of sexual assault and was sent to prison for three to ten years.