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Example sentences for "third time"

  • The money not coming in so speedily as was desired, the Speaker wrote a third time (19 Feb.

  • Bill should be then read a third time it passed in the negative,(1742) and nothing more is heard of it.

  • Disputes about the voting may be raised once or twice, but, if a third time, the presiding officers shall decide.

  • Disputes about the voting may be raised once or twice; but if the dispute be raised a third time, the officers who preside at the several elections shall decide.

  • The consuls elected were Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, a third time, and Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis.

  • There were chosen tribunes with consular power, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus a third time, Lucius Furius Medullinus a second time, Marcus Manlius, Aulus Sempronius Atratinus.

  • So a law was made that any Quaker coming into the colony should have one of his ears cut off; if he came again he should have a second ear cut off; if he came a third time he should have his tongue bored through with a hot iron.

  • And as those two great presidents refused to be elected a third time it has become a kind of unwritten law in the United States that no man shall be president longer than eight years.

  • And but a few months of his second term had passed when people began to talk of electing him a third time.

  • He might, had he wished, have been elected a third time.

  • When Obada passed the stall a second and a third time, Orion felt that he was watching him; however, it was quite possible that the Vekeel might also have business with the money-changer and be waiting only for the conclusion of his.

  • Paula's only reply was a shake of the head; but Neforis did not see it the metal tinkle sounded for the third time, and it was her duty to respond to its call.

  • But if they went a second and a third time, their disposition became gradually changed.

  • On the 16th of March, on the motion of Lord Henry Petty, the question was put, that the bill be read a third time.

  • On taking my leave of him, I asked him how he could go a third time in such a barbarous employ; he said he had been distressed.

  • Thus Alla ad Deen escaped once more the almost inevitable danger of losing his life; but this was not the last, since he ran as great a hazard a third time.

  • He then proceeded to cry a third time in the same manner, when the grand vizier came in person, and introduced him to the king of China.

  • They met there a second and a third time.

  • On Thursday next the Bill will probably be read a third time.

  • The young lady repeated her words a second time and a third time, and at last the fishes raised their heads from the pan, and saying in articulate speech "Yes!

  • When the portress heard the third song she cried aloud; and, laying hands on her garments, rent them down to the very skirt and fell to the ground fainting a third time, again showing the scars of the scourge.

  • He took no heed of my words and I asked for the apple a second and a third time, but he cuffed me and kicked me and went off with it.

  • Then the King waxed wroth with the hawk and filling the cup a third time offered it to his horse: but the hawk upset it with a flirt of wings.

  • On May 2nd and 3rd Norwich and Norfolk witnesses gave evidence in favour of the Bill, which was read a third time on June 1st.

  • It passed its second reading on March 21st, and was read a third time on June 19th.

  • It passed the remaining stages, and was read a third time in the House of Lords on July 27th.

  • The cardinal being left alone, reflected for an instant and then rang the bell a third time.

  • This is the second or third time, monsieur, that you have repeated that name, and yet I have told you that I do not know him.

  • He came out, and at the end of three-quarters of an hour went a third time, and after him Herries a second time, and with him Lord Bexley.

  • On Friday last the Catholic Bill was read a third time, after a very dull debate.

  • The bell rang again, and a third time, Rosa finally answering it in a coiffure that looked like a hastily constructed bird's nest.

  • Mr. Truefitt and Mrs. Willett entered from the garden just as the Captain was explaining for the third time.

  • Pleased with his success he coughed a third time, a sonorous cough charged with importance.

  • Now, not long after Zoe had quitted the house, he came in to see the sick child for the third time.

  • He said to him yet a third time, Simon, son of John, Do you love me?

  • Peter was upset because He asked a third time, Do you love me?

  • He left them and went to pray a third time, saying the same words.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "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:
    bill reported; continued fever; cottage cheese; make her; mediaeval literature; mere accident; not know; obstinate cases; sided pyramid; third century; third chapter; third daughter; third down; third edition; third estate; third person; third persons; third power; third reading; third state; third time; third verse; third voyage; third year; thirds majority; thirds natural