How to Use forty-five in a Sentence

forty-five

noun
  • The tires weigh six hundred and forty-five pounds each.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In 1980, his brother Frank died, at forty-five, of melanoma.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Thus far, it has been viewed, on YouTube, more than a hundred and forty-five million times.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Instead of a forty-five-minute charge or a one-hour charge that was considered to be a fast charge.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.
    — Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.
    — Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Six hundred and forty-five people died from heat in metro Phoenix in 2023, breaking the record set the previous year.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The boy sets a goal of identifying forty-five different birds in one day, but the birds don’t like the noise of war, so there is no birdsong.
    — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
    — Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The teacher also told the class that, forty-five years into the future, there would be a total eclipse visible from England, and Close resolved to see it.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Inside, shoppers poked through such items as kitchen appliances, picture frames (forty-five dollars each), and a Wii Fit set.
    — André Wheeler, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Brown, who is now forty-five, was an involuntary celebrity before she was born, and is still pursued by news crews from as far away as Uzbekistan.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • So, right now, according to this law, a person can be arrested without so much as an arrest warrant for up to forty-five days.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The stage show boasts a standard two-hour and forty-five minute running time, while the Gregory Maguire novel on which it's based is significantly denser.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This production, which collapses in its first few instants and then drags itself painfully along for two hours and forty-five minutes, is a cautionary tale about relying on stardom.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025

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