several

[ US /ˈsɛvɝəɫ, ˈsɛvɹəɫ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛvɹə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. distinct and individual
    three several times
  2. (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many
    several letters came in the mail
    several people were injured in the accident
  3. considered individually
    specialists in their several fields
    the respective club members
    the various reports all agreed
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How To Use several In A Sentence

  • It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
  • Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
  • If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
  • By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
  • Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
  • During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
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