five

Examples of five in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Duffels that scored fives for durability showed no signs of damage and kept the contents safe. Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023 The Chicago White Sox rookie outfielder took matters into his own hands, giving high-fives to the air with a smile on his face. Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023 The move reportedly excited the royals; particularly Prince George, 9, who jumped up to give high-fives to others in the box, per The Mirror. Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2023 Eventually, Van Lith finished up and gave high-fives to the managers working around her before heading into the tunnel as a pocket of Louisville fans cheered her on. Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for five 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
  • How Many Early Votes Have Been Cast? As of early November, tens of millions of Americans have already cast their ballots through early voting, which includes both mail-in and in-person votes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Justice Department wants a court-binding contract called a consent decree, which could cost the city tens of millions.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the bit, Maya Rudolph’s Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff fretted over the two’s friendliness.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the notable attendees include Lori Harvey, model Alton Mason (both pictured above), Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, designer Riccardo Tisci, actress Laura Harrier, and artist Maya Margarita who was on the ones and twos, pictured below.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Fiedler said his bookstore and other local ones like it that have closed are an important part of Chicago history.
    Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Ultimately, the ability to bridge the gap between data science and business strategy is what transforms a good data science team into an excellent one.
    Shivanku Misra, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Two weeks later, the Office of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III released an official statement explaining that Dorje Chang and his wife, Yuhua Wang, also in her fifties, died together at a Las Vegas residence.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the share of people getting married for the first time in their forties and fifties quadrupled between 1990 and 2019.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Isabella Strahan and her twin sister Sophia are gracefully exiting their teens and entering their twenties.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Some have questioned whether Todd, who would have been in his early twenties when the bitcoin white paper was published, would have been capable of developing a sophisticated peer-to-peer digital cash system—a problem that had confounded many talented and experienced cryptographers before him.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of former SOCCCD students are employed in Orange County.
    Advertorial, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
  • These findings, the scientists stressed, could have major effects on how people control problematic mosquito vectors like Aedes aegypti, which infect hundreds of millions of people with disease-causing viruses every year.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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