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Example sentences for "three quarters"

  • Butter a pan, into which pour your mixture about three quarters of an inch thick; send it to a gentle oven for about thirty minutes, cut it in small pieces, and ice it as for coffee eclairs (Art.

  • Take half a pound of boiled lobster from which you have removed the shell, and proceed as for the foregoing, adding half instead of three quarters of a cupful of tomatoes.

  • It is in a Wady in the Anti-Libanus, three quarters of an hour distant from Baalbec.

  • At half an hour from it is the spring called Ain Bahr; three quarters of an hour beyond it is a high level country, still on the western side of the summit of the mountain.

  • Three quarters of an hour afterwards I went to bed and my mistress came to me before long.

  • We reached Acquapendente in three quarters of an hour, and we found the madcap count in high spirits.

  • We shall be there in three quarters of an hour, as the wind and tide are in our favour.

  • They dined here to-day, and they went on three quarters of an hour ago.

  • Take a Calves head, cleane it and wash it very well, put it a boyling till it be three quarters boyled, then cut off the flesh from the bones, and cut it in peices as big as Walnuts.

  • In three quarters of an hour more you pass a third river, called Nahr Acchar, having a handsome stone bridge, of one very large arch laid over it.

  • There would be three quarters of a mile to run up-hill to the house, and another bit to the trees themselves, after he got in.

  • Three quarters of an ounce of molasses, at 6d.

  • If the boiling, instead of being continued only half an hour, be prolonged to three quarters of an hour, or an hour, the pudding will be considerably improved by this prolongation.

  • This they also devoured, even to the soft parts of the hoofs; and they shortly afterwards ate nearly three quarters of a third.

  • The hall or council-room was in the shape of three quarters of a circle, and covered, at the top and sides, with skins sewed together.

  • Graham and his company may have been at Davidson’s camp, three quarters of a mile from the Ford, and two of his men might have been killed there, if they were too tardy in making their escape before the British arrived there.

  • Polk returned from the river after General Davidson was killed at Cowan’s Ford, three quarters of a mile from the Ford—they stated that when William Polk returned from the Ford, and reported the death of Gen.

  • Three quarters of an hour further, they reached El Maitba Barda, a plain covered with a very small white gravel, without the slightest trace of basalt.

  • Their pathway led through a champaign country, partially wooded; and after a pleasant ride of three quarters of an hour, they entered the small village of Bidjie.

  • Three quarters of a mile southwest of the City Hall.

  • Visitacion Point and Valley, three quarters of a mile beyond the race course; worth driving out to see, if you have plenty of time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three quarters" 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:
    bring before; reigned sixteen; three batteries; three blades; three cents; three cloves; three cups; three divisions; three dollars; three fifths; three girls; three hard; three hundred and seventy; three inches; three lemons; three onions; three ounces; three parts; three pieces; three pints; three rows; three spoonfuls; three squadrons; three teaspoonfuls; three types; three ways