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Example sentences for "two and"

  • I believe, it hardly any where exceeds two or two and a half in breadth.

  • Others are planted in ridges about three or four feet broad, and two, or two and a half high.

  • It was five o'clock when the latter happened, and the thermometer then stood at fifty-four degrees, or two and a half degrees lower, than when they began to make their appearance.

  • Let them laugh, and mock, and jest, and scoff, if they will.

  • Their conscience tells them that so long as they live in this state, and do not break off from their sins, they are unfit to come to the Table of the Lord.

  • Which are the countries at this very day where is the greatest amount of internal misery, where we hear continually of secret plots, and murmuring, and discontent, and attempts on life and property?

  • The next thing to be done is to raise a bank of snow, two and a half feet high, all round the interior of each apartment, except on the side next the door.

  • They went downstairs, and, two and two, as they had been told off in strict precedence, mounted the carriages.

  • They walked up two and two--he and Gradman, Cook and Smither--to the family vault.

  • I'm two and a half times your age," said June, "but I quite sympathize.

  • From the entrance we went South-South-West five miles, when the river narrowed to about the third of a mile, we had from six to two and a half fathoms all the way in.

  • In one of the latter we anchored and took the altitude, which we found to be fifty-two and one-third degrees.

  • The point of sand lies in fifty-two degrees of latitude and fifty-two and one-half degrees of longitude.

  • The handle occupies a space of four inches with one and a quarter inches above the center and two and three-quarters below it.

  • Your finished hand grip, being four inches long, will be one and a quarter inches above the center and two and three-quarters below the center.

  • The point of starting this serving is two and one-half inches above the center of the bowstring.

  • When light add one and one-half cups of sifted white flour, one tablespoon of melted butter or oil, two and one-half cups of rye flour to make a soft dough and last one tablespoon of salt.

  • Two and a half pounds of brisket shoulder or any other meat suitable for pot roasting will require three hours slow cooking.

  • It costs about one dollar per liter, whereas the Albay cacao costs from two to two and a half dollars per "ganta" (three liters).

  • The workmen make holes in the ground two and one-half feet long, two and one-half broad, and to thirty feet deep.

  • By degrees the tribute has been raised to two and one-sixteenth dollars.

  • Distance walked thirty-two and a half miles.

  • Distance walked forty-two and a half miles.

  • What with the ground rising steadily, the pressure of the wind and our lack of condition, two and a quarter hours of solid work realized only two and a quarter miles; so we decided to camp.

  • In two and a half hours we covered two and a quarter miles, blindly blundering in an uncertain light among crests and troughs and through piles of soft, new snow.

  • The party lost weight at the average of two and a half pounds; Harrisson was the greatest loser, being reduced six pounds.

  • I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to do so.

  • At rumor of his arrival all the Mill-dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spy-glasses.

  • Many items in this estimate differ from the preceding; but the estimate of the annual decrease of the slaves on a plantation was the same--TWO AND A HALF PER CENT!

  • The law of Louisiana provides for the slaves but TWO AND A HALF HOURS in the twenty-four for "rest!

  • In this estimate, the annual net loss of slaves, over and above the supply by propagation, is set down at TWO AND A HALF PER CENT!

  • With the night tide we floated over the bank; but the breeze failing, she was swept against the shore two and a half miles above Curiosity Peak, and before the kedge could be laid out the tide fell.

  • Early this morning the Dolphin was moved to within three miles of the cove visited yesterday, and anchored in two and a half fathoms at the lowest water, the landing place bearing west by north.

  • The total weight was thus about two and a half tons, which, distributed on thirty horses, gave a load of 180 pounds each horse.

  • A little fishing was done, and Pete landed a twenty-two and three- quarter inch trout, thus wresting the big-trout record from Richards.

  • For one-quarter of a mile above its mouth the river maintains an average width of one hundred and fifty yards, and a depth of two and one-half fathoms.

  • It measured twenty-two and a half inches from tip to tip and eleven and a half inches around the shoulders.

  • At two and twenty he was a private in Col.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "two and" 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:
    being engaged; come after; discovered that; found amongst; other regions; personal consciousness; single letter; suffrage states; two ago; two and; two companies; two days after the; two different; two eggs well beaten; two equal horizontal bands; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; two hundred thousand pounds; two inches; two miles; two other; two parts; two pieces; two thousand; two thousand five hundred; two thousand seven hundred; two years