The Threes said; "Brother Twos, these people are openly shameless!
Even the Twos andThrees were shocked at this outrageous behaviour.
The Twos and Threes were found secretly taking the places specially resented for the Fours and Fives.
So the Tens and Nines began to blow on their flutes and pipes; the Eights and Sevens played on their sackbuts and viols; and even the Twos and Threes began to beat madly on their drums.
Nothing but rubbish--the twos and threes of ordinary drawing-room smartness--and never a trump.
Keep forming threesas long as you can so as to force your opponent to stop the threatened quaternion.
Keep a wary eye always on your opponent's game, and try to confine him as much as possible so as to prevent him from forming threes with an adjacent vacant square.
The boys were now scoring faster; singles, twos, threes were coming with great rapidity.
Shelton passed ladies in ones and twos and threes going out shopping, or to classes of drawing, cooking, ambulance.
Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns.
Then perhaps it was a minor peculiarity of some of these early ancestors of man to combine in twos and threes for their mutual protection.
Presently a water-cart arrived, and the thirsty builders went by threes and fours to drink, dipping two tin mugs and a gallipot in the water.
Then by twos andthrees the soldiers shuffled out and began to form up in their ranks.
Among the members of the Senate, meeting by twos and threesin the Broglio, Marcantonio's name was often heard.
For about an hour run-getting ought to be a tolerably simple process; but after that hour singles would be as valuable as threesand boundaries an almost unheard-of luxury.
They'll make him pat balls back to the bowler which he'd cut for twos and threes if he was left to himself.
Low; flower white, 1' broad, the parts rarely in threesor fives.
Parts of the flower usually in threes (never in fives), and the leaves mostly parallel-veined.
Go and sit down again and study this table till you know the threes and the fours and the fives and the sixes, perfectly.
However I studied its threes and fours steadily for some time; then my attention flagged.
The tree is upright-spreading, with numerous thick branches over which the cherries are rather thickly scattered in ones, twos and threes and never in clusters.
The fruit is especially attractive on the tree as it hangs on long stems in twos and threes thickly scattered and never much clustered.
When the services were over Green Valley strolled out into the May sunshine in twos and threes and stood about as always in little groups to exchange the week's news.
Groups of twos and threesstood everywhere about, hovering over some article.
They were then bound in threes to stakes and prepared themselves for death.
There were thirty of them, and they all came down the steep, ladder-like steps by ones and twos and threes and sixes and sevens.
Very soon came the hounds--by ones and twos and threes and sixes and sevens--and they also were going slowly and seemed very tired.
Joan heard them argue a disputed point-- would the men abide by Kells's plan and go by twos and threes into the gold-camp, and hide their relations as a larger band?
There's thousands of prospectors in twos an' threes an' groups, out in the hills all over.
After intermission they come sneakin' in by twos and threesto hit up their cigarettes.
First they began sailin' by in groups of twos and threes and fours, all givin' me the goo-goo stare and snickerin'.
I had barely concluded this arduous duty when the bell commenced to ring, and the fellows in twos and threes began to drop in.
Boys were flitting across in the direction of the gymnasium; and seniors in twos and threes were deferring their morning dip and hovering about in serious confabulation.
The crowd became thinner; couples and threes and fours, sometimes only one, entered at each gate as they moved on; they passed down the long street almost alone; Dr.
It was wandering about the roads in twos and threes (sometimes, alas, in ones also) that they really enjoyed, and against this freedom the bishops continually fulminated.
They were lurching in twos and threes through the doors, after the manner of merchant Jacks who cannot go out of a door fairly, like mere landsmen.
Men in couples or threes stood pensive or moved silently along the bulwarks in the waist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
