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Example sentences for "for the third time"

  • It is the sailor who twice uttered the prediction, which, for the third time, he repeats, now as the assertion of a certainty.

  • And still later, after leaving your hospitable roof, we, for the third time, came across the same two individuals, under circumstances showing them to be professional gamblers!

  • For the third time he asks himself this question, still unable to answer it.

  • He rose, and, for the third time, referred to his watch.

  • For the third time, the aged Ormond, now arrived at the period usually allotted to the life of man, returned to Ireland, with the rank of Viceroy.

  • The King, who had lately, for the third time, renewed with France the articles of his marriage treaty, was placed in a most difficult position.

  • She read the letter for the second time; she turned back obstinately, despairingly, and began it for the third time.

  • For the third time, Mr. Pendril returned to the business of the interview.

  • Under the learned auspices of Joyce, he plunged, for the third time, into the ocean of science, and brought up another pearl.

  • Thrice--" Before she could catch it for the third time, Norah seized her passionately by the arm, and the parasol dropped to the ground between them.

  • Villefort fell back on his chair, passed his hand over his brow, moist with perspiration, and, for the third time, read the letter.

  • He still sat looking at the letter, even after he had read it for the third time.

  • Oh, uncle, if I could only have said it for the third time!

  • She would have made me swear, for the third time, to give it to my master, but death was too quick for her--death stopped her from fastening that third oath on my conscience.

  • In going over it for the third time, he read it to himself aloud and very slowly, as if he was determined to fix every separate word firmly in his memory.

  • Finally came the day on which, for the third time, she had hoped to die.

  • For the third time, who betrayed my secrets to you?

  • For the third time, Mr. Fairlie, I beg that we may be alone.

  • His demand had not been attended to; he repeated it for the third time.

  • For the third time, she had seen the Apparition behind him.

  • I wish to speak to you about some anonymous letters--" "For the third time, will you permit me to ask for your name?

  • Arnold's warning hand touched Anne's, for the third time.

  • For the third time, she looked at the letter.

  • And, as it happened, Doctor Bonamy was just then examining Elise Rouquet, who, for the third time, had come to have the increasing cicatrisation of her sore certified.

  • Then as for the third time he passed by, again glancing, his eyes fell upon the basket of figs, and at once he stopped, as if beneath the shock of a revelation.

  • Then, for the third time, Garibaldi dreamt of renewing the feats of the old-world legends, and threw himself upon Rome like a soldier of fortune illumined by patriotism and free from every tie.

  • He went away laughing, and at the door of his coach embraced me for the third time.

  • Finally, you will wash us for the third time, then dress, take what she gives you and come here, where I will meet you in the course of an hour.

  • Let us go up for the third time, make a third choice, and pass the whole night here.

  • Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, for the third time, and Appius Claudius entered upon the office of consuls.

  • Upon Marcellus's abdicating his office, Fabius Maximus, for the third time, was elected in his room.

  • Then, gradually getting warmer at the coolness with which Kutusoff listened to him, Wilson, for the third time, threatened him with the general indignation.

  • The Russians had thus, for the third time, renewed their left wing, in the face of Ney and Murat.

  • At length the whole of the 14th division was engaged: the combat was then carried, for the third time, to the heights.

  • After a short term of undisputed power, the latter found himself, in 1533, for the third time, an inmate of the Tower.

  • For the third time, the assailants had been repulsed.

  • For the third time, the commissioners made no reply.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the third time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for another; for myself; for the second time; for they are foolishness unto him; for two; for whom; for you must know; force equal; fore wings; foreign competition; foreign courts; foreign nation; foreign trade; foreign travel; formal vote; former lives; former place; former time; formic acid; forth from; fortunate enough; forty days and forty; forty miles; forty minutes; forty yards; much need