THIRD in a Sentence
Learn THIRD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
316 example sentences for THIRD, such as:
1. Add the second total to the third.
2. He slid safely into the third base.
3. He can really pick it at third base.
4. Two quarrel and a third profits by it.
5. Anna of the third class is not so nice.
2. He slid safely into the third base.
3. He can really pick it at third base.
4. Two quarrel and a third profits by it.
5. Anna of the third class is not so nice.
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Meanings and Examples of THIRD
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third
n. following the second position in an ordering or series
n. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 One settled on his lip, another on his ear, a third hovered as though intending to lodge in his very eye, and a fourth had the temerity to alight just under his nostrils.
2 And almost as Chichikov spoke he saw a third chessman coming into view between the queens.
3 For instance, one of them made a regular practice of reading Karamzin, another of conning the Moscow Gazette, and a third of never looking at a book at all.
4 Yet neither on the morrow, nor on the day following, nor on the third would documents arrive at the suitor's abode.
5 "This is not the sort of thing for me," he murmured, and turned his attention to a third bookcase, which contained books on the Arts.
6 The first bottle of champagne was followed by another, a third, and even a fourth.
7 Vassily Ivanovitch poked his third finger into his pipe, where a little smouldering ash was still left.
8 Nikolai Petrovitch was surprised; Fenitchka, the reserved and staid Fenitchka, had never given him a caress in the presence of a third person.
9 but on the third day, at dinner, he could bear it no longer.
10 I saw him once in the theatre, in the third tier of boxes.
11 You will go from here to something lower, another house; a year later--to a third, lower and lower, and in seven years you will come to a basement in the Haymarket.
12 You will change to another house, then to a third, then somewhere else, till you come down at last to the Haymarket.
13 After serving three terms I was decorated with the Vladimir of the third class with the approval of the government.
14 Anna of the third class is not so nice.
15 The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna.
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 You can instruct your bank to allow a third party to remove money from your account.
2 Add the second total to the third.
3 Environmentalists argue that the organization fails to address the needs of third world farmers.
4 The editor omitted the third paragraph from the article.
5 A third heart attack finally finished off the old man.
6 Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
7 This will be her third try at jumping the bar.
8 He can really pick it at third base.
9 He slid safely into the third base.
10 Two quarrel and a third profits by it.
11 The inspectors said just under a third of lessons were unsatisfactory.
12 The third book in the series is currently in preparation.
13 The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year.
14 The impact of the crash reduced the car to a third of its original length.
15 The horse made a mira-culous recovery to finish a close third.