How to Use thrice in a Sentence

thrice

adverb
  • The Sixers then threw away the game thrice more, all in the last minute of overtime.
    Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 7 May 2018
  • Springer struck out thrice in the game's first eight innings.
    Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Pistons have stayed within 4 points in a loss just thrice this year.
    Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Off-screen, Ford has been married thrice and is a father of five.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • Kade Kennedy drove in three, while Austin Harper doubled and scored thrice.
    Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Washington whiffed just 10 times and struck out thrice.
    Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Donovan was right behind her with 11, thrice knocking down the deep ball.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • One group looks like a leashed and thrice-mustachioed Cerberus.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • And the book will go thrice-monthly for six months — which should establish the new status quo pretty fast.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Its population is thrice the size of Ukraine’s, and its economy is more than ten times as large.
    Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The past decade has thrice seen vicious, nail-biting debt-ceiling battles.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • So, these are not the same Yankees thrice ravaged by Keuchel during a Cy Young-winning season.
    Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But the good people of Fall River appear to have thrice elected a mayor who is also as dumb as bricks.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Concord-Carlisle has rallied for victories in five of their eight wins this year, thrice erasing deficits of 14 points or more.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • His own San Francisco wine shop has been targeted thrice by thieves this year.
    Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Messonnier has also been the face and the voice of the outbreak for the CDC, conducting thrice-weekly briefings for the media.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 Feb. 2020
  • In a four-week test in which some subjects rolled thrice weekly and others six times, neither group saw benefit, Behm said.
    Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Sullivan scored thrice in the opener, with Yochum adding two goals and Maddie Dichiara another.
    Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • His films have been honored at India’s National Film Awards thrice.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • The Argentinians scored thrice in the final 16 minutes, their only goals of the tournament.
    Frank Dell’apa, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • Leftover soup Cook once, eat thrice (or 10 times, as big batch cooking enthusiasts will tell you).
    Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Lars Eller was sent to the box thrice in Game 3, his first trip resulting in the second power-play goal and eventual game-winner for Tampa Bay.
    Kristen Nelson, SI.com, 15 May 2018
  • The quality of mercy, it is said, is twice blessed, but A.I. needs to be thrice blessed if business is to succeed in using the technology.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The national champion came from the other 35 teams to crack the poll: California, which peaked at No. 11 and was thrice unranked.
    Aaron Beard, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • For Carmen, who’s been attending Al-Anon meetings thrice weekly, that news goes over like a lead balloon.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • The league has thrice in Greensweig’s memory raised a city’s deductible as a penalty for issues that create risk for other members.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 17 June 2019
  • What will this Trump—thrice indicted, under constant barrage of attack—be like on the campaign trail?
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
  • Markets are aflutter over whether the Federal Reserve will bump up interest rates twice or thrice more in 2018.
    Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • In the hours after Dvorak’s piece was posted at 12:20 p.m. Monday, Trump tweeted thrice, all about the anthem kerfuffle.
    James Warren, vanityfair.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • In the last decade, the Chinese government alone has invested $60 billion and about twice or thrice as much has come from private industry.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 7 Sep. 2019

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