forty

How To Use forty In A Sentence

• _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
• This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
• We catered for forty but only twenty came.
• Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year.
• Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
• What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days. The History of Animals
• Forty per cent of the population is suffering from malnutrition.
• It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie. The Forgotten Garden
• She was the founder of the company, and for forty years its guiding spirit.
• His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.