How to Use forty-five in a Sentence

forty-five

noun
  • 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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