Example sentences for: few

How can you use “few” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because the Muslim world has fallen behind the West politically, economically, and militarily for the past three centuries, and because few tolerant or secular Muslim democracies provide alternative models for the future, Bin Ladin's message finds receptive ears.

  • A few have been domesticated for plantation work.

  • But the features of the old, old woman who had opened the door of the farmhouse half way up the mountain and who had answered my polite request for a few eggs and some milk with a steady flow of Welsh, remained blank.

  • (This number is slightly less than the number of retained fragments (153) because, whereas most of the retained fragments were flanked by lost regions, a few directly bordered other retained fragments.)

  • Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.


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