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Example sentences for "the third"

  • The third objection," said Father Brown, still in meditation, "is this bank we are sitting on.

  • What may be the third objection to the King of the Thieves?

  • I thought the subject seemed to embarrass the other two a little; but it broke the spell of the third man's silence most successfully.

  • On the third day, the throng had swollen to thousands; all slowly converging to one point--the city of Somnauth.

  • On the third night, nothing unusual was heard or seen by the watch on deck.

  • In the third he got his last step as lieutenant-colonel, and, getting that, got also a sunstroke, and came home to England.

  • In the third place, those notes are of my making; there is nothing but my assertion to the contrary, to guarantee that they are not fabrications.

  • His correspondent announced (writing in the third person--apparently by the hand of a deputy) that he had been unexpectedly summoned to London.

  • Go out of the town by the south gate, and there you will find three little dogs of different colors; the first will be white, the second black, the third red.

  • One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunchback, another lame or club-footed or blind, and most of them shall be ugly and covered with scars.

  • So he ground meat and drink, and all kinds of good things, to last all Christmas-tide, and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast.

  • On the third night he sat down again on his bench, and said, in the most desponding way: "If I could only shudder!

  • Per capita GDP of $9,600 is among the highest in the Third World, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements domestic production.

  • In contrast, most of the remaining population suffers from the poverty patterns of the Third World, including unemployment, lack of job skills, and barriers to movement into higher-paying fields.

  • By one, and likewise by several, and even by an infinite number of thin lenses in contact, no more than two axis points can be reproduced without aberration of the third order.

  • Aberration of the third order of axis points is dealt with in all text-books on optics.

  • The images of the Gauss theory being of the third order, the next problem is to obtain an image of 5th order, or to make the coefficients of the powers of 3rd degree zero.

  • The paper presents were all burned on the evening of the third day, while the spirit feasted upon the flavour of the fruit and cakes.

  • In the first sackcloth without hem or border; in the second with hem or border; in the third, fourth and fifth, pieces of sackcloth on parts of the dress.

  • The Third Princess, having promised to help provide the programme, took a number of her girls, and on a large rostrum, had them go through their calisthenic exercises for the entertainment of the audience.

  • Here we were met by the Third Princess, who conducted us into the main hall.

  • The school of the Third Princess at which this service was held was profusely decorated.

  • On the third morning, as he crossed the Plaza, some one called him.

  • He put himself in front of the men, and with shouts and oaths led them to the third charge.

  • You will see that on the third day he will be smoking in his balcony, in the way which is usual to him.

  • On the morning of the third day of what the Senora, called their imprisonment, they went to the roof to sit in the clear sunshine and the fresh wind.

  • On the third of December Colonel Milam stepped in front of the ranks, and asked if two hundred of the men would go with him and storm the city.

  • Yet--I take shame to be forced to confess it--my brother has not yet grasped the nature of the Third Dimension, and frankly avows his disbelief in the existence of a Sphere.

  • A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

  • The third letter, telling us about the nobility and the women of Venice, completes the impression.

  • The third number of this paper contained a one-act play by George Sand, entitled Le Roi attend.

  • This was while a gorgeous procession of people marched around and around, in the third act, and sang the Wedding Chorus.

  • His long-continued tortures and deprivations destroyed him at last, on the third of January.

  • For, by the third corollary of our axiom, they owe to themselves the interest on their own capital.

  • By the third corollary of our axiom, interest tells against the proprietor as well as the stranger.

  • Determination of the Third Form of Society.

  • The practical conclusion of the criminal trial is arrived at in the third stage, that of the decision on the evidence.

  • The third class is that of the criminals whom, after my prison experience, I have called criminals by contracted habit.

  • The third proposition of the positive school in regard to individual guarantees, which was also advanced by M.

  • The third is, that they have a remarkable, though not a complete, similarity from whatever source they come.

  • These young men occupy chambers on opposite sides of the same landing, the third floor, over the Alienation Office in Tanfield Court.

  • She was going, by appointment made on the previous Friday night, to eat dinner with a frail old lady named Mrs Duncomb, who lived in chambers on the third floor of one of the buildings that had entry from the court.

  • The summing-up of the President on the third day of the trial was, it is said, a model of clarity and impartiality.

  • The third year's man was dabbing a wet sponge over his face, and a couple of grinning dressers were looking on.

  • Served in the Third Guards--the same they call now the Scots Guards.

  • I am that man, sir, though we called it the Third Guards in those days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the third" 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:
    just estimate; should not have been; the fountain; the heaven; the men; the president; the state; thee shall; then asked; then bottle; then continued; then glanced; then have; then indeed; then pass; then removed; then shall they know; then slowly; then stopped; then strain; then take them out; theological virtue; these conditions; these pages; these the; these times