Third

//θɜːd//

"Third" in a Sentence (21 examples)

A third party makes off with the profits.

Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs away with it.

One third of the earth's surface is desert.

Let us settle the matter without a third party.

This was third school shooting incident in six months.

Our city has one third as many people as Tokyo.

Although CFIT accounted for just over a third of crashes in the past six years, it caused 53% of the deaths.

You'll find domestic articles on the third floor.

We have English third period.

I intend to take my position as a third party.

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The third tree from the left is my favorite.

The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]

“Congress took the lead on putting the HBCU funding in those bills and passing them. The third COVID-19 bill, passed under President Biden, included as much funding for HBCUs as both of the first two Covid-19 bills under President Trump,” he said.

Jones came in third.

He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.

Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.

Now put it into third.

They sing in thirds.

The play ended with Jones standing on third.

[…] thirds (sixtieths of seconds), fourths (sixtieths of thirds) and so on, but then it becomes very cumbersome.

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