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 -
Those words are part of the morning prayers religious Jews have prayed thrice daily, every day, over the course of millennia.
— Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
Chronic and new anxiety were associated with a nearly thrice higher risk of dementia from any cause — with an average time to diagnosis of 10 years, the authors found.
— Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 July 2024
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