How to use "three" in a sentence

It's only about three metres, so I won't need any equipment

About three metres from the edge of the drop is a boulder

I can think of three possible plans

7.0 pm I've been chipping at the rock for almost three and a half hours

It's just after three o'clock on Sunday, April the 27th, 2003

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

By 6.00 pm, I have taken off more of the boulder in three hours than I did in four days

I guess he must be about three

The video ends with three simple words: 'I love you.'

Only three more kilometres to my truck, but I'm feeling weaker every minute.

About seventy metres ahead of me are a family of three people - a man, a woman and a young boy

We sailed for three months and we never saw the creature once.

What all of us thought was a large whale was a three-hundred foot long underwater ship

Chapter three

Captain Nemo let the three of us go

"I want all three of you to go to your rooms, now!" The ship came closer

In a short time, Alice was more than three meters high.

In a race, somebody usually says,' One, two, three, go!' But the Dodo didn't do that

I can't get bigger!' So she ate the cake and two or three minutes later she was small again

But there were only three at the table: the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and a large brown mouse

There were three gardeners by the tree.

The three men looked unhappy.

The three gardeners fell to the ground, with their faces down

The three gardeners jumped up

'Cut off her head! Cut off his head!' she shouted, every two or three minutes.

But they gave me the ball, and I ran over the goal line two or three times

'I finish work in three hours, Forrest,' Jenny said

The three of us ran out of there fast, and Miss Welch shouted and screamed.

Back at our hotel, the three of us sat in our room and tried to decide what to do.

The train got into Mobile station about three o'clock in the morning, and Sue and I got off

We came here about three years ago.'

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning

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."

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

The three of us began to talk.

One of them, a girl of twenty-three, died recently

The three of us have saved your niece's life!'

Now demolished, number 29 was an old building with three floors

On the first floor Mrs Richardson and her grandson lived in three rooms, and she let out the other rooms

A carman, John Davis, occupied the attic at the front with his wife and three sons

She slept in a police cell for three hours

Around 1.33 three men came out of the Imperial Club in Duke Street

The three men passed on

There were also three plain-clothes detectives on the streets that night

At that moment she heard 'screams of "Murder!" two or three times in a female voice'

But they did not come out, so he went away as the church clock struck three o'clock.

In fact, Hutchinson had known Mary about three years, so he certainly knew that she had her own room

She's nearly three.'

Chapter three

'But give me three days, please

The next morning they gave him the bill, charging him three times the usual price for a meal and a bed for the night

The old man put three 500-franc notes on the table and said, without smiling, 'Now fetch Cosette.'

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

We haven't eaten for three days..

It's worth about three francs.'

At this signal, which he had pre-arranged with his friends, three men armed with metal poles rushed into the room

'The carriage is ready?' Jondrette asked the three men.

He managed to open it but, before he could jump, the three men jumped on him and held him to the floor.

The next cannonball exploded against the wall at one end of the barricade, killing two men and wounding three.

Finally, after three months, the doctor announced that Marius was out of danger

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten

I do not understand anything else that they say, but I do understand these three words, and I smile again.

We are standing there, the three of us, in front of the bank

"You walk from here to Brow Top, up over the moors road? Every evening? That's a dangerous road, and it must be more than three miles."

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

Gerry's gun fires three times into the evening light, and screams fill the creek, but there is no escape.

Soon all is quiet again, apart from the sound of three large crocodiles slowly creeping back to the green water

Well, good evening gentlemen." Carolina says, and the three men stop their conversation and smile.

"Oh, but can I trust you three to look after Eleanor? This is her first night, and her first cruise

"Fascinating," she says, and all three look happy that she thinks so.

For the summer perhaps." Then she is quiet, and the three men think how polite and gentle she seems

"Normally, yes," says Eleanor, and all three men notice how her smile fades a little, "but she has a plan for that

But today it is nearly three, and the case is nowhere near closed.

They say this is premeditated murder because for half an hour Miss Lee looked for Mr Dawson; they also say she made her intention clear on three different occasions

He takes the back stairs, passes three or four lawyers in their black gowns and white wigs and feels sorry for them: it is so hot today

The door of your wardrobe is open, and the clothes inside look like three or four small burglars watching you

What if there are two people? Two burglars? Or three?

He pauses for a moment to try and remember what he has to do next, but then the door to the church opens again, and three women enter

He had about three hundred bucks left in the world

He only knows that it was three in the afternoon when they first heard the sound of the police sirens.

"There's a family who comes here, maybe three or four times a year

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

Sala and Cham left, and met three friends in another space - Niki, and two boys named Palo and Ding

With a loud beep, the doors opened at floor sixty-three: the top

The three of them laughed and talked as they waited for the doors to open

Our two sons are doing well, and we have three grandchildren

Then all three spoke at once

If your body is in good health, you will then return to the pod for a further twenty-three months."

Cham and the other three talked excitedly about Pod Life, but Sala felt strange.

Only three hours to go

Chapter three

Frank Crawley had come to lunch and the three of us were hoping to have a quiet afternoon

It had failed after only three months

When I looked at my watch again, it was three o'clock

'There were three of them, in different parts of the boat

If I had two or three thousand pounds, I could live quite well

Chapter twenty three

We had lunch somewhere and reached London at about three o'clock

We shall be home by three.'

And the three of them begin to climb up to the roof of the building.

Closing her eyes now, chewing the toast, Tina could still see him - three years old, peanut butter smeared all over his lips and chin - as he grinned and said, More neenut putter toast, please.

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

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

Nine model airplanes filled a display case, and three others hung on wires from the ceiling

The walls were decorated with evenly spaced posters - three baseball stars, five hideous monsters from horror movies - that Danny had carefully arranged.

Each narrow gallery consisted of a three-foot-wide aisle with a low railing on one side and a curving row of raised, plushly padded booths on the other side

The Pyramid, with almost three thousand rooms, was booked to capacity, as was every hotel in the city

Shortly before noon, two high rollers from Dallas sat down at a blackjack table and, in three hours, lost a quarter of a million bucks; they were laughing and joking when they left the table to try another game

Vivienne had a daughter, a son-in-law, and three grandchildren in Sacramento

There were five photographs in addition to the one that had dropped onto the sofa; two were responsible for the noises that had drawn her into the living room, and the other three were those that she had seen popping off the picture hooks

No woman had affected him so strongly since Nancy, his wife, who had died three years ago.

Overhead, the three model airplanes began to move

The legs at the foot rose three or four inches before crashing back into the casters, that had been put under them to protect the carpet

One of the models was flung from its shelf, then two more, then three more, then another, until all nine lay in a pile on the floor.

She'd been asleep less than three hours.

At least two or three thousand people were in the casino, which was larger than a football field

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

Heart attacks are more frequent around the slot machines than anywhere else in the casino, and a lot of the victims are people who've just lined up three bars and won a bundle.

When the excitement wears off a little, they go to check out of the hotel, and they discover their three-day weekend somehow turned into five days

"Somebody broke in three times but didn't steal anything?"

"During the year, I'm going to send special invitations to the married ones, asking them to spend their anniversaries here, with everything comped for three days

From there they were going to hike for three days with snowshoes and backpacks, making a wide circle around the bus, coming back to it at the end of the week.

Tina went to the bar and sat on one of the three stools, across the counter from Elliot

"She passed away three years ago."

With you, it's been three years

I wouldn't want to have to mix this damn stuff three times."

A three-sided, fan-shaped tent had been erected on the back lawn, to one side of the sixty-foot pool, with the open side facing the house

Not much remained to be done: The contents of three cartons in the back of the deep closet had to be sorted

Three or four minutes later, the doorbell rang - one, two, three, four times, insistently.

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

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

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

Nearly everyone was engaged in animated conversations, couples and cozy groups of friends, enjoying themselves, looking forward to the remaining three days of the four-day holiday.

The Cessna hit an air pocket, dropped three hundred feet with a sickening lurch, and then soared to its correct altitude.

Deep inside the secret Sierra complex, three stories below ground level, this room measured forty feet by twenty

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

Currently the system wasn't working, for three-quarters of the window was filmed with frost.

The temperature drops abruptly, stays down for two or three minutes, never longer than five, and then it rises to normal again."

It was an immense, pseudo-Colonial house, perched prominently on top of a hill, on a three- or four-acre property, and conveniently next door to a large, nondenominational cemetery

Elliot stood, extending the pistol in both hands, and snapped off three quick rounds

When they had gone two blocks, he said, "Turn right at the next corner." After two more turns and another three blocks, he said, "Pull it to the curb

He considered the requisitioning of this executive jet to be one of his most important accomplishments in the three years that he had been chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

Chipping three billion out of Health was the least risky of the Network's funding operations, for Health was so gigantic that it never missed such a petty sum

After three years the President had declared himself delighted with the accomplishments in South America, and he had asked George to take charge of one of the Network's domestic bureaus - Nevada - which had been terribly mismanaged

More shocking still to the sensibilities of patrician Easterners like them: on three occasions, in South America, Alexander had been in a position where it had been necessary for him to pull the assassin's trigger himself

It's in a public lot about three blocks from here."

This was his second pill since he'd gotten out of bed just three and a half hours ago, but he still felt edgy.

They hadn't passed another car in three miles.

In the rectangular room, three stories underground, computers hummed and murmured.

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

The light on the indicator board changed from four to three to two, and the air inside the lift became so frigid that Tina's breath hung in clouds before her

The doors slid open three floors below the surface, on the next to the last level.

As the three of them moved to the airtight steel door that led into the room beyond the window, Elliot said, "Why is he in an isolation chamber? Is he ill?"

The Chinese have three like it

Bollinger was probably at the bottom gate two and a half hours after he walked out of the door here, three hours after he was infected

He started out of the forest, toward the county lane, which is about five miles from the turnoff to the labs, and after only three miles-"

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

The other three scripts would be assigned to "network-approved writers."

The other three quarters of the time was spent - so it seemed to me - in a competition to come up with idiotic plot or character changes with the intention of seeing who could plunge me into the longest spell of speechlessness

By this time, we had passed the one-year mark in the development process, and I knew we were not going to wind up with a usable script, so I didn't insist on discussing whether the rubber tires would melt off the vehicle within two hundred yards or three, or ponder at what point the gasoline tank might explode

The second was my script of another book which, in a fit of frustration at this entire process, I wrote in three days after the assigned writer's final - and umpteenth - draft was deemed inadequate

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

I looked at the envelope, which had three Ks on the back

'Uncle Elias went immediately to the secret room and took out a box which also had three Ks on it

'But I've tried to forget, and I've lived alone in that house for nearly three years now

March 7th 1869 Sent the pips to three people, Brown, Robinson and Williams.

Chapter three

Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John's father

While he was working for the K.K.K., he sent the pips to frighten those three men

Only one ship, the Star, was in the three ports at the right times, and this morning the Star left London to sail back to Georgia

The three words were still there, but reversed:

Knock three times on the door to show that you understand and then fetch me a bowl of milk with some brandy in it.

Knock again three times and I will know I have your promise

I had to calm myself before I knocked slowly three times

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

'About three weeks ago

'So, that is three people who heard the shot,' said Inspector Slack

'I am sleeping very badly just now, and at about three o'clock this morning I thought I heard someone moving about the house

But I picked up the other three letters and left the vicarage.

I wondered what it was that the three ladies wanted to tell me

Perhaps three times

Then I told her about the three notes I had received that afternoon

And that leaves three possibilities.'

Yes, give me three nine - nine, not five.' And then, 'Hello - is that you, Haydock? Melchett speaking

My number is three five.'

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and bright greenish smoke came out of the pit in three separate clouds, which moved up, one after the other, into the still air.

A few minutes earlier there had only been three things in my mind: the great size of the night and space and nature, my own weakness and unhappiness, and the near approach of death

'Thanks.' And all three of them laughed.

On the surface of the Earth the force of gravity is three times as great as on the surface of Mars

A Martian, therefore, would weigh three times more than on Mars, although his strength would be the same

At about three o'clock I heard the sound of a gun, firing regularly, from the direction of Chertsey

I turned my desk chair to the window and stared out at the country and, in particular, at the three enormous black Things that were moving around the common

And, shining in the morning light, three of the tripods stood on the common, their tops turning as they examined the damage they had done.

In the road lay a pile of three burnt bodies close together, killed by the Heat-Ray

As we ran, we heard the sound of horses and saw through the trees three soldiers riding towards Woking

The ground moved and a heavy explosion shook the air, smashing two or three windows in the houses and leaving us shocked.

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the Martian machines appeared, far away over the low trees towards Chertsey

The church! We rebuilt it only three years ago

My brother was not worried about us, as he knew from the description in the papers chat the cylinder was three kilometres from my house

But three certainly came out at about eight o'clock

It seemed that one of its three legs had been broken

After this it seemed that the three Martians spoke together, and those who were watching them report that they stayed absolutely quiet for the next half-hour

A few minutes later these three were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube

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.

Silence returned, and three minutes passed.

By three the crowds were so large around the stations that people were being pushed over and walked on

On Tuesday the three of them, still intending to get out to sea, drove through the busy country towards Colchester.

Although the three of them were hungry themselves, they decided to walk on.

About three kilometres out there was a warship

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

There was food available, although the prices were very high, and the three of them had a meal.

At the same time, far away in the south-east, the shapes of three warships appeared, beneath clouds of smoke.

He looked past it at the Martians again and saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their legs were almost completely under water.

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

I remember a pile of three broken bicycles, flattened by the wheels of passing carts

In three steps it was among them, and they ran away in all directions

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

In three other ways their bodies were different from ours

In three steps he was at the door leading to the kitchen.

I know nothing of the next three days

For three days I walked aimlessly, a madman

'I have been married for three years, and my wife and I were very happy until last Monday

After three years of marriage, she feels safe again, but her first husband, or some unscrupulous woman attached to him, discovers where she lives

I kept her existence a secret from you for three years, but finally I had to see my little girl

We were three to one

He pretended that the lemons were rats, and killed three of them! This was Montmorency's idea of fun.

Taxis usually come every three minutes.

We reached Sunbury Lock at half past three

So, the young couple towed George and his three fat friends up to Marlow

You always need three girls

It is never boring when three girls tow a boat.

All three of us loved tinned fruit

There were three fishermen in it.

We sailed straight into the fishing boat with the three old fishermen! At first, we didn't know what was happening

The three old fishermen fell off their seats

My friends and I are very unhappy to hear men of your age use such bad words.' The three old men did not agree with Harris.

She looked at them and said, 'This will cost you three times the usual price.'

Twenty minutes later, three men and a dog were going to the railway station.

He understood and sold us three tickets

And a twenty-three-year-old child who chooses a silly way to fight life's problems

Of the three, Connie was happiest with these changes

I named three gentlemen in whose houses I had taught drawing.

One day, when I had been at Limmeridge for three months, Miss Halcombe asked me to walk with her in the garden

Sir Percival is certainly an admirable man - and yet, in three words, I hate him!

However, since Madame Fosco was forty-three and Laura was twenty-one, that was unlikely

While my wife lives, I get three thousand pounds a year, but that's not enough to pay my debts.'

Mrs Michelson told me that Laura had gone to London, where she'd become ill and died! This terrible news made me ill again, and I was unable to leave that house for another three weeks

Twenty-three years ago, Sir P admired me

My daughter Anne was born three months later

She was very intelligent and could read when she was three years old.

From 1908 to 1909, she was in prison three times

In the United Kingdom, more than three out of four businesses pay men more than women

Because the Nobel Prize can only be shared between three living scientists, Rosalind's work was not spoken about when the prize was given to James, Francis and Maurice

She became the world's first woman prime minister, and she led her country's government three times

She said later, "When I was two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly."

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.

Chapter three