How to Use forty-five in a Sentence

forty-five

noun
  • The tires weigh six hundred and forty-five pounds each.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In 1980, his brother Frank died, at forty-five, of melanoma.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Thus far, it has been viewed, on YouTube, more than a hundred and forty-five million times.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Instead of a forty-five-minute charge or a one-hour charge that was considered to be a fast charge.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.
    Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.
    Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Lauren Oyler, Harpers Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 5 July 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Six hundred and forty-five people died from heat in metro Phoenix in 2023, breaking the record set the previous year.
    Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In 2011, forty-five per cent of American pregnancies were unplanned.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025

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