Word Finder - ten

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A set or group with ten elements.

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We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.

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A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

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A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner.

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Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

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A perfect specimen, a physically attractive person.

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A high level of intensity.

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The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.

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The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

What she knew was that her father and his lies had skewed her outlook on her world for ten years.

The way things are going now, I'm lucky to save ten dollars a week.

At ten years old, Jonathan was almost as tall as she was.

I waited ten minutes before leaving the room.

I think I scared about ten years off my life too.

Ten minutes later I heard a telephone ringing downstairs.

You can wait ten minutes.

She waited for him to open the conversation, idly wondering if it would be ten before he spoke.

The next morning the caliph called ten of his officers before him.

A long oak table graced the center of the room, its ten carved chairs at attention.

You said ten minutes.

The diner closes at ten.

Young Timothy Burton was reunited with his mother shortly after ten PM this evening.

The gap in the abductions we're looking at is under ten years, meaning he was probably sent up for a lesser crime that could be anything from robbery, burglary, serious assault or rape.

It took us two hours to come ten miles from the airport and Julie had to direct him the last mile and she just got here herself.

I'll tell the world at this end I'm off on a ten day fishing trip and can't be contacted.

He hadn't trusted anyone outside of his adopted brothers-- and Sofi-- since he was ten.

No. He adopted me when I was ten.

He was around Ouray for ten years or so.

Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

Alex was ten times the man Señor Medena would ever be.

Yeah, you could get to it, but it would take a while, and you'd be subjecting yourself to thorns, ticks, snakes and about ten miles of the roughest country you can imagine.

Childhood excursions had taught her that the country was rough, but was she up to ten miles of walking?

The porcelain clock on the wall proclaimed the time as ten minutes until twelve, but it didn't seem that late.

If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.

It was already after ten.

He's never out more than ten to twenty minutes at a time and three or four sessions make a heavy day.

Her body was found on the Iowa bank of the Mississippi ten days later.

After a childhood filled with foster homes, she feared getting too comfortable, even in the home of the man who adopted her twelve years ago, when she was ten.

It's been ten years since I first told you this.

The day dawned cloudy and cold with a light rain that chilled her after ten minutes.

This area is ten square miles, though.

Dean suggested before returning that they drive ten miles to the Ridgway fairgrounds, where a Sunday morning farmer's market offered fresh fruits and vegetables.

It's ten miles from nowhere, in every direction.

They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.

The bidding starts at eleven o'clock, but you can look the items over any time after ten.

Lydia lived in a newly constructed condo on Oak Street as it drifted out of the main body of town and became the back road to neighboring Ridgway, ten miles away.

I went off to college and messed around some—did all the stuff you're supposed to do at that age—but when I came back home ten years later, Paul's wife had died.

Finally, after ten minutes of silence passed, they heard the sound of feet running down the slope on the other side of the rise above them.

God, that was nearly ten years ago!

He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.

Ten minutes later, Lydia Larkin answered her door dressed in very tight and very small white shorts with a red elastic thing that covered only her breasts and nothing of the acres of skin in the middle.

I had a brother Bobbie, ten years older than me.

For ten bucks more, she was to cover Ridgway's four hundred citizens in the county's only other town, if you didn't count minuscule Colona, which most people didn't.

Before she could say a word, Lydia too stood up and looked down on Cynthia, who was ten inches shorter.

About ten minutes later, he spotted it again and followed.

Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.

It was near ten o'clock the next morning when Martha awoke in a festive mood with the appetite of a hibernating bear.

Looks like you can buy one for about ten bucks unless some late bidder jumps in and kicks up the price.

Why would someone want to pay ten bucks for that?