Example sentences for: fives

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

  • Formed by compounding: a five (that is, a hand-slap; compare British slang bunch of fives for a hand or fist) that is performed high over the head.

  • `West Germany: Voller and Klinsman make with the high fives in Milan.

  • While neither editor deserves high fives for lucid exposition, the message is that different targets were being aimed at, and, unless one wishes to have both books, the choice between them may be thought to remain an open one.

  • Olajuwon twice won NBA championships with all-black starting fives that had a suburban playing style.

  • This means that 180 CFA francs can be expressed as one hundred plus sixteen fives, or as one hundred plus three twenty-fives plus five, or yet again as seven twenty-fives plus five.


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