Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of five
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
—
Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
All five also contested last year's leadership election won by Ishiba.
—Satoshi Sugiyama, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025
Randle has started playing five-on-five, meaning his return from an injury that has kept him out for nine games is imminent.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for five
Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
All five also contested last year's leadership election won by Ishiba.
—Satoshi Sugiyama, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025
Randle has started playing five-on-five, meaning his return from an injury that has kept him out for nine games is imminent.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
-
Soon after, tens of thousands of people filled the streets and the rowdiest among them were clashing with police, smashing windshields, scaling scaffolding, light poles and a statue, climbing into and atop school buses in Times Square and trying to hitch a ride on a moving fire truck.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
-
Today, his videos regularly attract tens of millions of views, creating a business supported by advertising revenue, sponsorships and other commercial opportunities.—
Ian Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Noun
-
Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
-
Whether or not apocryphal rains be in the heavenly cards, twos are best reserved for book ends and bicycles wheels.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
Noun
-
And unlike most multi-goal leads in what has been a wild and thrilling series, this one held up, with Brandon Bussi finishing with 22 saves in his second career postseason start.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
-
From 1980 to 2018, the number of inventory clerks nearly tripled, but their average wage fell by 13 percent; the number of accounting clerks, meanwhile, fell by a third, but the ones who remained saw their average wage rise by 40 percent.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
Noun
-
As many as three-quarters of all teen-agers now wear braces at some point—up from thirty per cent in the eighties and five per cent in the fifties.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
-
The name McKim, Mead & White evokes the image of three portly, middle-aged men, because the most frequently reproduced photograph of the trio was taken around 1905, when all three partners were in their fifties.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Noun
-
Five-to-twenty-fold increases in per-developer consumption are now documented in agentic mode, and no public benchmark shows a matching multiplier on output value.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Noun
-
Ticket sizes that once averaged $75 million quickly scaled to the hundreds of millions, and the market now routinely supports billion-dollar deals, said Acito.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
9 Dec. 2025
-
Another major one impacted much of the Midwest and Northeast, causing hundreds of schools to close Tuesday, with some delays and closures stretching into Wednesday.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
