FIFTY in a Sentence

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239 example sentences for FIFTY, such as:
1. I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
2. Old people looking back fifty years.
3. At a guess, I should say she is about fifty.
4. His total score was one hundred and fifty five.
5. We have lived in the same house for fifty years.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FIFTY
fifty
 a.  being ten more than forty
 n.  the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  The latter did not know how to begin, but at length he managed to bring out his request for an advance of fifty dollars.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  In Liverpool it would bring one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but there was no hope of getting it to Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  "All our cotton--a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth," said Scarlett bitterly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Ah, well, that's been fifty years ago, as I said, and since that time I've never been afraid of anything or anybody because I'd known the worst that could happen to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  But, Rhett, fifty people owe him and he won't press them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  "One hundred and fifty thousand dollars," murmured Scarlett, her horror at the oath fading.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  There were fifty or sixty people there, some of them from so far away she wondered how they had heard in time to come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  "There are always fifty witnesses to prove a Southerner was somewhere he wasn't," said the captain morosely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  All during the honeymoon she had been thinking how she could bring up the subject of the thousand dollars she needed to buy fifty feet more of land to enlarge her lumber yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  Old people looking back fifty years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Everything's changed so much that it seems like fifty years ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  His total score was one hundred and fifty five.
2  The court's decision on this case will turn the clock back fifty years.
3  Police have issued a description of the man who was aged between fifty and sixty.
4  Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
5  The doctor told my wife I had a fifty - fifty chance of survival.
6  Each of the fifty states casts electoral college votes equal to the number of its delegates in Congress.
7  The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
8  The road runs straight as a die for fifty or so miles.
9  A hundred and fifty empty bottles tumbled onto the floor.
10  At a guess, I should say she is about fifty.
11  The youngest player scored up an unexpected fifty runs.
12  They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
13  Roughly speaking, we receive about fifty letters a week on the subject.
14  We have lived in the same house for fifty years.
15  I worked for two weeks, and fifty pounds was all I had to show for it.