How to Use four in a Sentence

four

noun

• I leave each day at four.
• The best thing to do is to box up the wall with two-by-fours and add Sheetrock.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Again, the moose popped up on all fours but wouldn’t move.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2017
• Oubre can handle the four, but very few fours can guard him.
  — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• For instance, the first time is by twos, then by threes, then by fours.
  — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• But there are two kinds of stretch fours in the NBA: those a team acquires and those a team makes.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 26 July 2019
• That leaves the 3 and 4 spots, where the Kings could use a floor-spacer with the length, if not the strength, to check both stretch fours and wings.
  — Thomas Oide, sacbee.com, 15 June 2017
• There are seven races tonight, meaning the pick fours will start in the first and fourth races.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• For shoppers tired of all the 2-liter turbo fours, Buick sticks with the V-6 engine in the LaCrosse.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• The car was covered with a yellow tarp held down by two-by-fours.
  — Elizabeth Koh and Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 18 Oct. 2017
• Threes, fours, fives and sixes need not apply for the big game these days.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
• The San Diego Rowing Club women’s youth fours placed third in last year’s event.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Beast Crawl Start on all fours with hips stacked over knees, shoulders stacked over wrists.
  — Emily Abbate, Esquire, 27 June 2017
• Begin on all fours with your knees hips-width apart and your wrists stacked over your shoulders.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017
• The production from Kentucky's small-ball fours was not as good.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2019
• Unlike the other plaques, which are grouped in twos and fours, Magowan’s stands alone on a small section of brick along King Street.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• That's only the size of three or fours grains of rice, but the idea that anything can eat through plastic is enough of a marvel.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2017
• Any one of the eight courses, plus the breads, canapés, and petit-fours, could stand brightly on its own as a full-meal entrée.
  — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2018
• That’s going to be our strength, our ability to put our fours and fives and sixes way up high.
  — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Sep. 2019
• This one involves getting on all-fours, with your knees lifted a few inches off the floor.
  — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• A. Start on all fours with wrists below shoulders and knees below hips.
  — Bari Leiberman, Redbook, 5 June 2017
• There are teams that are able to do both, have their fours and fives go to the offensive boards and still get back and still be good in transition.
  — Michael Cunningham, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• Thankfully, most of the incoming threes, fours and the class’s five (Howard) should all stay and play for the program for two to four seasons.
  — Emily Caron, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Side Kicks Get in the all-fours starting position described above for the table slides.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 27 June 2018
• We’re talking cookies, cakes, tarts, bars, brownies, galettes, eclairs, tortes and petit fours — and then some.
  — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 23 Apr. 2017
• Almost everything you are supposed to do with children is set up in twos and fours.
  — Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• Buildings in the region were framed balloon style: Builders threw up two-by-fours around the perimeter, then tied the floors into each story.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• After a few icebreakers, the group of veterans split up into threes and fours.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
• The women won the junior varsity eight while the men took the third varsity eight race and the junior varsity fours.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 12 May 2018
• It was razed in a matter of hours by Dorian, which ripped apart the shelters and scattered splintered plywood and two-by-fours for miles.
  — Michael Weissenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2019

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