How to Use forty-five in a Sentence
forty-five
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The tires weigh six hundred and forty-five pounds each.
— Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023 -
In 1980, his brother Frank died, at forty-five, of melanoma.
— Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Thus far, it has been viewed, on YouTube, more than a hundred and forty-five million times.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023 -
Instead of a forty-five-minute charge or a one-hour charge that was considered to be a fast charge.
— IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2021 -
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
— Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
— Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Six hundred and forty-five people died from heat in metro Phoenix in 2023, breaking the record set the previous year.
— Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024 -
The boy sets a goal of identifying forty-five different birds in one day, but the birds don’t like the noise of war, so there is no birdsong.
— Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024 -
The teacher also told the class that, forty-five years into the future, there would be a total eclipse visible from England, and Close resolved to see it.
— Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024 -
Inside, shoppers poked through such items as kitchen appliances, picture frames (forty-five dollars each), and a Wii Fit set.
— André Wheeler, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 -
Brown, who is now forty-five, was an involuntary celebrity before she was born, and is still pursued by news crews from as far away as Uzbekistan.
— Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023 -
So, right now, according to this law, a person can be arrested without so much as an arrest warrant for up to forty-five days.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The stage show boasts a standard two-hour and forty-five minute running time, while the Gregory Maguire novel on which it's based is significantly denser.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024 -
In an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.
— Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023 -
The center had room for about twenty-three hundred spectators, though seating could be expanded to forty-five hundred.
— Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023 -
Finally, if new elections were held today, Netanyahu’s bloc would drop ten seats, to about fifty-four, and the center parties of Gantz and Lapid would, together, gain forty-five seats to Likud’s twenty-five.
— Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
This year, more than forty-five hundred Mainers applied for sixteen available licenses.
— Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 19 June 2024 -
Rabies, which is overwhelmingly transmitted by dogs, kills tens of thousands of people annually in South Asia—forty-five per cent of the global total.
— Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Over the next forty-five years, his English publications included fourteen novels, ten story collections, and a slew of memoirs and children’s books.
— Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023 -
Jessie, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed at the age of forty-five with emphysema, which would eventually be compounded by esophageal cancer.
— Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 -
Organizers of the Bangkok Art Biennale have named the forty-five local and international artists participating in the event’s fourth edition.
— News Desk, Artforum, 5 July 2024 -
Editor’s picks For forty-five years (since Star Wars) the fantasy genre has dominated the entertainment industry.
— Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023 -
In that 2020 debate, Trump had interrupted Biden and the debate’s beleaguered moderator, Chris Wallace, constantly—a hundred and forty-five times, according to one count.
— Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024 -
In 2009, although the business was struggling, Braun prepared for investors an unrealistic set of projections that showed a forty-five-degree line of profits and growth, and soon afterward the chief operating officer quit.
— Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023 -
An engineer with Caltrans who was not authorized to speak publicly said forty-five columns show clear evidence of spalling, the technical term for the cracking and disintegration of concrete when it is exposed to extremely high temperatures.
— Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023 -
Despite its positive impact on equality efforts, the focus of affirmation action on college campuses over the last forty-five years was in service of realizing the diversity bonus.
— Marcus Collins, Forbes, 16 July 2023
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