How to Use third in a Sentence

third

1 of 2 adjective

• We sat in the third row.
• The office is on the third floor.
• Do you have a third choice?
• C is the third letter in the alphabet.
• That's the third time I've seen him today.
• The teams match up Thursday for the third time this season.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2023
• There, too, are the ones who stayed — some now on their third Auburn head coach.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2023
• In the top 15, a third Texas city makes the list: San Antonio ranks at No.12.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
• On my third trip to Besharam, a waiter set a plate in front of me.
  — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• The unit faced just two third downs and converted both.
  — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 14 Apr. 2024
• This year marks the third time co-hosting the CMTs for Ballerini.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2023
• Can’t Get Enough, his third solo disc, is the maestro at his peak.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• The payments are sent out on the second, third, and fourth Wednesdays of every month.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2023
• The title of the line is a nod to her third album, Rare, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 22 July 2023
• It should be noted that these are takeaways from UA’s third practice and the team wasn’t in full pads.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• In 1988, Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs made a guest appearance on the show.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• This is the third year that the elder Bryan has made the long, three-day trek from Claremore to Copan, Oklahoma.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2023
• My girlfriend Lara Americo attempts to wake me up for the third time this morning.
  — Joanne Spataro, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Musk’s tweet was the third post in a thread involving other people.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Its the third time in four seasons Allen has advanced to the region-semifinal round.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• She was terminated March 25, the day of the third violation, and told not to return the next day.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2024
• The third teen was last seen wearing a black baseball cap with white on the front, a black hooded sweatshirt with the sleeves rolled up and a red backpack.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• The bad blood seemed to start at the end of the fourth inning, when Cougars third baseman Cam Magee started a beautiful double play.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
• With two outs and runners on second and third, Rendon again fielded a routine grounder and threw it away to plate a run.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Olympian outscored Valhalla by nine points in the second quarter, eight in the third quarter and seven in the fourth quarter to win, 70-58.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• The third mile does require an extra effort, because the body begins to tire and weaken.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Altuve hit a double to right field during his next trip to the plate in the third inning and followed that with a single to left in the fifth inning.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• If the show is renewed for a third season, there’s more fodder for good storytelling.
  — Vicki Shabo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
• Don’t wait too long to harvest because when a third leaf grows, the flavor can change from nutty or earthy to bitter, Beauchamp says.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• About a third say the same for using an electric stove instead of a gas stove and 24 percent say driving slower.
  — Kate Selig and Emily Guskin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023

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third

2 of 2 noun

• The win was his third of the year.
• Rent costs two-thirds of my paycheck.
• She divided the cookie into thirds.
• Green Bay is in the bottom-third of the league stopping the run.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• In Game 1, Sardis scored three runs in the bottom of the third to take the lead for good.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 13 May 2023
• Down 15-14 in the third, Noa had three digs in one rally.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• Then, good baserunning to get to second base on the throw to third.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• Increase the heat to medium-high and reduce the sauce by a third.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• The third, who lives out of state, later talked to police.
  — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• Based on the way things ended last year, this group is among the bottom third in the league.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Altuve’s milestone blast to left tied the game in the third, but Bauers gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead in the fifth.
  — Larry Fleisher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• This left the three others to share the remaining third.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Its count shows a third of those strikes were in the health care industry.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• Even better, the CDC says the small number who do has shrunk by more than a third.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Cassano broke a scoreless tie with a two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the third.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
• Johnny Cueto gave up the nine runs in two-thirds of an inning and the Reds lost 22-1.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2023
• The off week hits at a perfect time for reflection over the first third of the season.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• Two years later, 19 of them were, an increase of more than one-third.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
• The inning ended on an excuse-me swing to third from William Hamiter and a great throw to first.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2023
• Nearly a third of the cuts come from news and copy editor ranks.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• More than a third of the sightings come from the Pacific Northwest.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• Right fielder Ben Weigand, who knocked in two runs in the district final, was hit by a pitch to lead off the third.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
• More than 13 million Ukrainians — a third of the country — fled from their homes.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• Two wore flak jackets with the logo, while a third wore a WCK T-shirt, the outlet reports.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• Dan Hammer struck out the side in the eighth inning and Carson Carter pitched a hitless ninth to earn the save, his third of the season.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2023
• Xander Bogaerts drove a hanging curveball out to left in the third.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• Microsoft is now seeing that around a third of Bing Chat testers are new to Bing.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
• In the southern third of the state, most highways were clear as of 2:10 p.m., the Department of Transportation's map showed.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 1 Feb. 2023
• In 1977, over a third of banks offered accounts with no service charge.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The New Year is almost here and the first third of the season is complete for UConn women’s basketball.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024