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Example sentences for "hundred and"

  • It is the telephone which does most to link together cottage and skyscraper and mansion and factory and farm.

  • So, as we have seen, the telephone as Bell invented it, was merely a brilliant beginning in the development of the art of telephony.

  • The Emperor, a true Italian in his love of dress, had overlaid the coats of all his servants with silver and gold, and the Empire included a hundred and thirty-three Departments.

  • The Marshal counted the bank-notes it contained; he had a hundred and fifty-two thousand francs.

  • A hundred and thirty-two rounds were fired at the house, but the garrison still refused to surrender.

  • The commando which rode out to do battle with the Matabeli numbered, it is said, a hundred and thirty-five farmers.

  • A hundred and forty of the men were down, many of them suffering from the horrible wounds which shell inflicts.

  • To-day he leases seven hundred acres and owns a hundred and thirty of his own--the finest orchard in the valley, and he packs from forty to fifty thousand boxes of export apples from it every year.

  • I know a ranch in my county where the land was worth a hundred and twenty-five an acre.

  • I'll give him a hundred and twenty-five a month to take hold the stables.

  • By a very exact account of the revenue of the principal colonies of America and the West Indies, it amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances, to a hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred pounds.

  • In forty days an infantry division of eight thousand men repaired a hundred miles of rail and built a hundred and eighty-two bridges.

  • A hundred and ninety-six and still a-swelling!

  • Clay's hundred and eighty or ninety, dollars had worked a wonder.

  • How can you have known a hundred and forty-seven of him?

  • Among the day-boys, of whom there were about a hundred and fifty, sons of the local gentry and of the men stationed at the depot, those whose fathers were engaged in business were made to feel the degradation of their state.

  • Think of it, there are a hundred and forty-seven great works reposing in the bosoms of a hundred and forty-seven great men, and the tragic thing is that not one of those hundred and forty-seven great works will ever be written.

  • Oh yes, I do: I've met a hundred and forty-seven of him.

  • It's either a hundred and eighty-three or a hundred and eighty-two.

  • Just think--it'll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!

  • Two hundred and twenty-eight, a hundred and seven.

  • Two hundred and eighteen, a hundred and three.

  • A hundred and seventy, seventy-four," sang out the youth who was marking.

  • The old man soon begged us to hand over our coats and waistcoats to him to carry, too, and we did it; one could not refuse so little a thing to a poor old man like that; he should have had them if he had been a hundred and fifty.

  • He only misses it about a hundred and eighty or ninety thousand feet.

  • La Durantaye and his companions, with a hundred and eighty coureurs de bois and four hundred Indians, waited impatiently at Niagara for orders from the governor.

  • This was not all; for the whole number carried off was more than a hundred and twenty, besides about two hundred who had the good fortune to be killed on the spot.

  • Eight hundred regulars were already in the colony, and eight hundred more were sent in the spring, with a hundred and sixty-eight thousand livres in money and supplies.

  • He had laid his plans before the Council of Antwerp, and had asked from them three ships of a hundred and fifty, three hundred and fifty, and five hundred tons respectively, besides these he wanted sixty flat bottomed scows.

  • These canals were shaded with trees, crossed by a hundred and forty-five bridges.

  • Martin Brand, who commanded the Dutch, had a hundred and fifty, but of much smaller size.

  • Dear New York; I haven't been there in a hundred and thirty-five years, I dare say.

  • My dear sah, it thrills me, it sends a warmth through me that I have not experienced in a hundred and thirty- five years.

  • Day before yesterday she weighed two hundred and ninety-eight pounds.

  • I am twenty-four and she is at least a hundred and fifty.

  • There were four chimneys, with fireplaces burning a hundred and seventy-five cords of wood in a winter; and though the nuns were boxed up in beds which closed like chests, Marie de l'Incarnation complains bitterly of the cold.

  • The fortified work which inclosed the buildings was in the form of a parallelogram, about a hundred and seventy-five feet long, and from eighty to ninety wide.

  • The Hurons within the palisade did not much exceed a hundred and fifty; for many had been killed or disabled, and many, perhaps, had straggled away.

  • Walter writes that one agent is making a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week," answered the doctor, with a humorous twinkle in his eye.

  • You'll be paid according to your work I've known an agent to make a hundred and twenty-five dollars in a single week.

  • The thought of the agent who made a hundred and twenty-five dollars in a single week occurred to him and encouraged him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hundred and" 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:
    carefully avoided; does not know what; especially applied; first prize; first supposed; hundred and fifty feet; hundred and fifty miles; hundred and fifty years; hundred and twenty years; hundred cubits; hundred days; hundred eyes; hundred fold; hundred knights; hundred leagues; hundred million; hundred pounds; hundred things; hundred thousand; hundred twenty; hundred ways; hundred years; legislative bodies; splendid story; this age; verily believe