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How to use four in a sentence

40 example sentences · numeral, noun

Four means a numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five. Example: “There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.”

Examples of four by meaning

numeralA numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five.

  • There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
  • Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC

nounAnything measuring four units, as length.

  • Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

nounFour o'clock.

  • The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar about four in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles.1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, volume 2, U.S....

nounA person who is four years old.

  • I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

nounThe shell itself.

  • The team bought a new four last season.

nounThe crew rowing in a four boat.

  • Our four won both races.

nounA regatta event for four boats.

  • We got third place in the varsity four.

More sentences with four

  • All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.From the entry three
  • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.From the entry five
  • They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.From the entry nine
  • Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.From the entry board
  • The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.From the entry give
  • There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.From the entry thirteen
  • I can't believe you quaffed four pints of beer and could still drive!From the entry quaff
  • There were only some three or four cars in the lot at the time.From the entry some
  • What's the time? – It's quarter to four in the afternoon (or 3:45 pm).From the entry to
  • In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.From the entry almost
  • Can you give me the four one one on their next concert?From the entry four one one
  • Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.From the entry finger
  • Jill has four diamonds; she’ll try to draw for a flush.From the entry draw
  • I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.From the entry break
  • I’ve worked here for exactly four years, one month and 10 days.From the entry have
  • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.From the entry have
  • Four people were injured, with one of them in critical condition.From the entry with
  • After four straight wins, Mudchester United are top of the league.From the entry straight
  • I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.From the entry where
  • Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.From the entry body
  • I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.From the entry sit
  • His car spun in the rains just after finishing lap four.From the entry spin
  • In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.From the entry flat
  • The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.From the entry solid
  • At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.From the entry rate
  • The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.From the entry home
  • Do you have a table available for a party of four?From the entry party
  • You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.From the entry want
  • The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.From the entry cycle
  • She's taking four papers this semester: two in psychology and two in sociology.From the entry paper
  • The "four rules" of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are examples of binary operations.From the entry binary operation
  • A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.From the entry carbon

Meaning of four

  1. numeral A numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five.
  2. numeral Describing a set or group with four elements.
  3. noun The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

Full definition of four

Questions about four in a sentence

How do you use four in a sentence?
Four is used as a numeral and noun. For example: “There are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.”
What is a short sentence with four?
“Our four won both races.”
What does four mean?
Four means a numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: four (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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