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Example sentences for "sevens"

Lexicographically close words:
seure; seus; seven; sevenfold; sevenpence; sevenscore; seventeen; seventeenth; seventh; sevenths
  1. If you have a three, for instance, as your second shot of a score, you may have four sevens to finish up with; then your next score may begin with two sevens and then a two.

  2. You're going to say, after all, that my sevens are like fours.

  3. Thus if he has three sevens and mistigris, mistigris will represent the missing seven, and make him "fours.

  4. Repeat this three times more, then shuffle and cut the cards you have thrown on one side, together with those remaining in your hand, and tell them out in sevens as before, until you have thus obtained twelve cards.

  5. The nine cards that have been taken from each sevens and nines are to be shuffled and looked at.

  6. The nines, sevens and fives and the first group you have withdrawn are shuffled, cut in two packets, and laid out on the table before the dealer.

  7. It will now be found there are seven rows of five cards each, and two remaining; these two are placed with the nines, sevens and fives, to be used later.

  8. The two jacks are enemies, and the three sevens predict an illness, caused by them.

  9. It is not that indeed,' said Medb; 'but to give you a chariot worth three sevens of cumals [See previous note about cumal.

  10. It has the old system of sevens and, inspired perhaps by the philosophy of Heracleitus (c.

  11. Thus we have division and description of the body in sevens from the periphery to the centre and from the vertex to the sole of the foot,[9] or a division into four regions or zones.

  12. His glance and the eyes of all the We are Sevens were fastened anxiously on Mrs. Clyde's face.

  13. The We are Sevens accompanied the travellers as far as Kooch's, and sent them off from that point weighted with injunctions and messages innumerable.

  14. The discomfited We are Sevens returned to their seats, and a moment later there came the sound of spoons being vigorously thumped on the table.

  15. Knight looked up with twinkling eyes; evidently the We are Sevens were not all of Sarah's type.

  16. I want the boys and the We are Sevens on the little rustic bridge.

  17. We are Sevens tearing madly down the road "ki-yi-ing" at the top of their voices.

  18. But think how mean it would be to have one of the We are Sevens out of school.

  19. How about the We are Sevens whom you've brought so far away from their homes?

  20. Grandmother's expression when the We are Sevens hove into sight, sent Blue Bonnet off into another gale of merriment.

  21. Mr. Ashe saw her difficulty, and in a moment had put her at ease by assuring her that the pleasure of knowing the We Are Sevens had more than compensated for what little he had done.

  22. The high tension of the We Are Sevens relaxed for a brief second.

  23. It fairly throbbed with love and anxiety to see him, and she had plead the cause of the We Are Sevens with the eloquence of a young Webster.

  24. Doctor Clark and Kitty leading the way in the phaeton with heavily laden baskets, old Denham and the rest of the We Are Sevens following in the Clyde carriage.

  25. Even the We Are Sevens seemed remote and indistinct in her tired brain.

  26. I have the pleasure to inform you, girls, that Uncle Cliff will be in Boston the first day of April, and that he has written me to invite the We Are Sevens to be his guests at the Copley Plaza for three days, beginning on that date.

  27. Amanda's aunt had the second time invited the We Are Sevens for a week-end at the farm.

  28. Blue Bonnet and the We Are Sevens had parted company in New York several weeks before, the girls going on to Woodford in care of the General, in order not to miss the first week of school.

  29. The We Are Sevens are still clinging to hair-ribbons.

  30. I know if the We Are Sevens were here they would send heaps of love.

  31. Why, the We Are Sevens would never have got over it.

  32. At the opposite end sat Miss Clyde, and the Lambs and the We Are Sevens alternated about the board.

  33. It was sweet of the We Are Sevens to get me that ivory set, and to know that every different piece was the loving thought of a different aunt or uncle.

  34. Macallison's loft must have been at sixes and sevens the day they turned that sail out; a Monday after Glasgow Fair, belike.

  35. Everything was at sixes and sevens forward, and the discipline of five months was set at naught.

  36. As Mr Wallop was about eighteen years old, I ventured to regard this language as figurative on the part of Mr Doubleday, and trusted the sevens were not quite as bad as he made out.

  37. Your youngest grandchild could make his sevens nearly as well as that!

  38. The number of the Holy Breath is seven, and God holds in his hands the sevens of time.

  39. The Sevens are the highest cards and are worth twenty-one points.

  40. When consulting the pip cards, the Sevens have peculiar and occult values, marking the boundaries between those lower and higher.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sevens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.