The harbor was defended by only fiveships of the line, one fifty-gun ship, and five frigates, three of which were sunk across the mouth of the basin.
The whole force of the French amounted to only five thousand; the English attempted to drive them from their works by storm, but were repulsed with a loss of near two thousand men, while their opponents were scarcely injured.
The king now directed Vauban to take the demi-lune by regular approaches, which was done in a very short time, and with a loss of only five men!
Mr. Brent[481] measured one of the latter and found it eight inches in length, whilst the wild canary is only five and a quarter inches long.
As only five or six wild species with these habits and making any near approach in structure to the domesticated pigeon are known to exist, I will enumerate them.
Oh, I should like to talk to you in my own language for five minutes--only five minutes!
If she is seventeen, and he is only five-and-twenty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only five" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
