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, 25 Sep. 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, 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
• In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 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
• Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
  — Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 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
• Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• 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
• For ideal immune function, health professionals advise engaging in moderate-intensity exercise two to three times a week for up to forty-five minutes.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024

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