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Example sentences for: three-

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There are one-, two-, three-, four-, and five-thread overlocking or over-edging machines, each one designed to meet a given requirement of seam, strength, flexibility, and security.
Book -- The Three-Arched Bridge , by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson.
The NYT front reports that a growing number of scientists and policy makers now say it will be difficult if not impossible to avoid doubling the amount of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere before the greenhouse problem is brought under control, which could mean anywhere from a three- to eight-degree increase in the earth's temperature.
The price may look a little steep, until you realize that all the brightly decorated rooms are suites large enough to get lost in, with unheard-of kitchenettes and comfortable salons for the price of a standard three- or four-star room.
I admire Stephen Hirschberg's mnemonic tricks [XVI, 3], but he has left out an important postscript to the Ogden Nash poem about the one- I lama and the two-l llama . When Nash gets to the three- l lllama and concludes there isn't any, he amends himself in a footnote: “The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as the three-alarmer . Pooh.