How to Use eight in a Sentence

eight

noun

• The eight that made the cut are below.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
• Choose from crazy eights, spoons, go fish, or even poker—take your pick.
  — Parents, 11 June 2026
• Each Jesse & Ben’s fry is three-eights of an inch thick.
  — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Faria gave up a career-high eight runs while getting just five outs.
  — courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Flowers finished with a team-high eight tackles, five of which came on running plays.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• The term comes from the dead man’s hand, the fabled poker hand containing both black aces and two eights.
  — Tal Pinchevsky, New York Times, 5 June 2016
• Chernyshov has three goals and eights points, and the Sharks are winning his minutes 12-9.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• Davis played arguably his best game of the season against the Bears, making a team-high eight tackles.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2019
• Jackson recovered Acho’s forced fumble and made a team-high eight tackles.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• James Harden had 30 points and eights assists for Cleveland.
  — ABC News, 11 Mar. 2026
• There are two eights on the date 8/8, bringing more magnetism to attract and evoke amazingness.
  — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• In the younger age groups, there are around 50 children — from under-eights to under-11s — who train at partner clubs.
  — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026
• The Owls also won two other eights races – the freshman/novice eight and the junior varsity eight.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 12 May 2018
• As a result, four Russian boats, including the men’s and women’s eights, are out of the Games.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 26 July 2016
• Davis impressed with a team-high eight tackles and one tackle for loss in the spring game after enrolling early at UK.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2017
• David Mayo stepped in for Ogletree against Washington and had a career-high eight tackles.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The single dining room, clad in raw two-by-eights, could be a suburban basement finished over the weekend by a couple with a table saw.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• Fellow senior corner Anthony Witschey totaled a game-high eight tackles (two for a loss) and a pick.
  — Luke Feliciano, Cincinnati.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• For example, students must submit seven slices of brisket, with ends attached, that aren’t thicker than three-eights inch and no thinner than one-fourth inch.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
• And his Big Eight brethren were unprepared to stop quarterbacks putting up the kind of gaudy numbers that are now commonplace.
  — Dave Skretta, The Seattle Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• Loneker, who later earned all-Big Eight honors in his final season, proved his strength in winter workouts.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity.com, 22 June 2017
• DeSclafani surrendered six of his season-high eight hits to lefties in a 7-5 loss at Miller Park.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2019
• The county will be asking voters in November to approve a five-eights-of-a-cent sales tax increase to help backfill some of the lost dollars.
  — Grace Hase, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
• Freshman Jordyn Peters stepped in for Dinson at nickel and finished with a team-high eight tackles.
  — Tom Green | [email protected], AL.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• Jones bounced back from a poor (by his standards) 2017 opener with a team-high eight tackles against the Jets, including two for a loss.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 25 Sep. 2017
• Other products Plus Eight has shown interest in are aimed at the burgeoning worlds of music apps and streaming services.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 16 May 2017
• Buckner was an all-game factor, totaling a team-high eight tackles, including a couple on Rudolph on third-down scrambles.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2019
• Eights months later, he was arrested on hit-and-run charges after allegedly sideswiping a delivery truck and attempting to hide his license plate.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Tampa Bay Times, 21 Feb. 2017
• The shooting took place as hundreds gathered to celebrate the first of eights nights of Hanukkah, a holiday which takes place close to the winter solstice during the longest nights of the year.
  — Aileen Graef, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025
• Jones caught a game-high eight passes for 126 yards and a touchdown Sunday, and delivered a handful of the Lions’ biggest plays.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019