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'forty' in a sentence

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forty adjective

: being ten more than thirty

forty noun

: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four


  • My father will soon be forty years old.
  • This book contains forty photographs.
  • I think she is over forty years old.
  • Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred.
  • I haven't slept in forty-eight hours.
  • Mr. Smith founded this school forty years ago.
  • Did you just eat forty servings of pudding?
  • Our class has forty-five students.
  • We are forty kilometers away from the capital city.
  • My uncle is in his forties.
  • I am forty-five years old.
  • The king reigned over his people for forty years.
  • I bought forty dollars' worth of gasoline today.
  • The square root of one hundred forty-four is twelve.
  • Professor Kay has been studying insects for forty years.
  • Forty euros for a scarf? You don't have anything cheaper?
  • The temperature is forty below.
  • I am nearly forty and still not married.
  • Forty percent of food in the United States is wasted.
  • They had not fought for more than forty years.
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