How to Use four in a Sentence

four

noun

• I leave each day at four.
• For instance, the first time is by twos, then by threes, then by fours.
  — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• Jurel hit five sixes and five fours.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
• The car was covered with a yellow tarp held down by two-by-fours.
  — Elizabeth Koh and Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 18 Oct. 2017
• The best thing to do is to box up the wall with two-by-fours and add Sheetrock.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Threes, fours, fives and sixes need not apply for the big game these days.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
• There are seven races tonight, meaning the pick fours will start in the first and fourth races.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Begin on all fours with your knees hips-width apart and your wrists stacked over your shoulders.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017
• Hold for a few seconds and place back down to all-fours position.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The skipper also hit five fours and two sixes.
  — ABC News, 2 May 2026
• Beast Crawl Start on all fours with hips stacked over knees, shoulders stacked over wrists.
  — Emily Abbate, Esquire, 27 June 2017
• The production from Kentucky's small-ball fours was not as good.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2019
• This one involves getting on all-fours, with your knees lifted a few inches off the floor.
  — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• That’s going to be our strength, our ability to put our fours and fives and sixes way up high.
  — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Sep. 2019
• Almost everything you are supposed to do with children is set up in twos and fours.
  — Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• Six teams are in final fours for the first time, and seven are breaking droughts of more than 30 years.
  — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
• Munch on petit-fours and mini pastries, while watching a magic show.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Billows of smoke, meanwhile, could reportedly be seen from miles away for fours.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2019
• That's only the size of three or fours grains of rice, but the idea that anything can eat through plastic is enough of a marvel.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2017
• Kohli was out for a 38-ball 50, which included five fours and a solitary six.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• Any one of the eight courses, plus the breads, canapés, and petit-fours, could stand brightly on its own as a full-meal entrée.
  — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2018
• After a few icebreakers, the group of veterans split up into threes and fours.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
• Several other houses on the street were missing roofs, and some were buttressed by two-by-fours.
  — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2017
• Modern basketball embraces stretch fours, skilled fives and point guards who can do a bit of everything.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2018
• Among fours, however, the abilities to run the floor, shoot from distance and pass are much more common.
  — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• There are teams that are able to do both, have their fours and fives go to the offensive boards and still get back and still be good in transition.
  — Michael Cunningham, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• The San Diego Rowing Club women’s youth fours placed third in last year’s event.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Co-opener Salt was quicker with 78 off 36, with six sixes and six fours.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• The average person would estimate a total travel time of four to five fours.
  — Scott Winter, The Conversation, 10 June 2019
• The male American black bear had an injury that prevented him from walking on all fours.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016