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Example sentences for "three were"

  • Of these, three were not in the least affected and continued for days to grow straight downwards.

  • Three were Christians: Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon.

  • Suddenly stopping her engines, she opened on them with her whole broadside; two or three were seen to fall, but still they stood their ground.

  • Three were committed to the deep at the same time.

  • Three were schooner-rigged gunboats, built for the navy at Erie; the remainder were the vessels brought from Black Rock.

  • Three were of Zanardelli's following, three were adherents of Giolitti, three belonged to the Right, one was a Crispian, and two were Independents.

  • All was still as if we three were alone in the wilderness--as if it had been some hideous nightmare which awakened us.

  • It was to me as if the fight had hardly more than begun when we three were in a place of comparative safety once more, and on the alert to pick off a foe.

  • We three were seated on three stiff-backed chairs, our backs to the wall.

  • We three were entranced; and an idea that was swiftly forming in my mind struggled for expression.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three were" 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:
    feed water; food material; thought that; three brigades; three children; three different; three equal horizontal bands; three families; three fathoms; three frigates; three heads; three horizontal; three hundred and fifty; three kingdoms; three more; three pairs; three pounds; three ranks; three thousand; three threads; three times round the; three turns; three types; three volumes; three ways; would break