Word Finder - three

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The digit/figure 3.

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Anything measuring three units, as length.

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Put all the threes in a separate container.

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A person who is three years old.

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All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.

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The playing card featuring three pips.

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A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).

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Describing a set or group with three elements.

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A goal or other means of scoring worth three points.

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A three-point shot; a basket made from beyond the three-point line.

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A three-point landing; an airplane landing in which all three wheels touch the ground simultaneously.

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A deer or other animal whose antlers feature three points or tines.

Put three in each shoe.

All three girls laughed.

There are three small rooms up stairs.

I have over three thousand acres.

Three days later the issue was settled.

It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

She had the job she had planned for the last three years.

You've been working for me for almost three months now and this is the first time I've ever seen you sick.

I was hoping I was simply a few weeks late, but it's been over three now and then this started.

Three men talking to each other on a sidewalk certainly wasn't enough to tell the police – except Len.

There was an old treadle sewing machine with carved drawers and even a grandfathers' clock, stating the permanent time of three p.m.

I belong to Bailum & Barney's Great Consolidated Shows--three rings in one tent and a menagerie on the side.

But we're only three days out of Ashley - at the most.

We'd have waited for you, but we was outnumbered three to one and didn't have time to look for you.

Three empty bedrooms were closed off to the heat, as well as a full bath that looked as though it hadn't been used in years.

I have only three possible answers.

Why, you have only seen him three times!

It was almost three O'clock in the afternoon and her stomach was screaming for something to eat.

I have plans too, you know - and they don't include dropping out three months short of graduation.

I know you love me, but when people find out I lived with the Indians for three years...

Our route scooted between Pennsylvania and Virginia for three hours until we crossed into West Virginia and traded a major highway for winding secondary roads.

We had world war three over it.

And yet, it had been her goal for over three years.

She turned around and walked three steps before it hit her.

The three of them walked abreast along a narrow road consisting of no more than two bare strips of dirt in the grass.

He told me he got on a ship in Galveston and sailed for three years.

Was this what I experienced for three years?

We were forced to stop on three different occasions as Howie, a back seat passenger, became frequently nauseous.

Two for three was never the less remarkable.

That's where the three of us grew up.

In three days we all fulfilled our dreams.

I assure you, I have managed to contact all but three and if I located them I would get down on my knees before them and beg forgiveness, just like I've done with the others .

I served my time, all twelve years, three months and sixteen days of it, but it pales in the face of suffering I poured on these young ladies.

Just the three of us are in residence, soon to be two.

As the baby of the three, he'd always been the rock star among them.

For decades, teams of three hardy fools had tried to knock each other senseless with high pressure fire hoses, while the spectators tried to escape the cross fire.

She'd break up with Logan and die in three months.

You extended my life over three years after the others said I had a few months.

Living for three years after a diagnosis of dying in a month weird?

The highways were quiet on the Monday mid-morning, and they drove the three hours faster than she was expecting.

The three third floor rooms contained six ice climbers while Donald Ryland remained in the small first floor quarters.

He placed one upon the floor, so that it could run around, and pulled apart the other, making three piglets in all; and then one of these was pulled apart, making four piglets.

All three got into the buggy and Zeb picked up the reins, though Jim needed no guidance of any sort.

The Gargoyles were very small of stature, being less than three feet in height.

But although the Munchkin was hardly tall enough to come to Zeb's shoulder he was so strong and clever that he laid the boy three times on his back with apparent ease.

At three o'clock the Throne Room was crowded with citizens, men, women and children being eager to witness the great trial.

Two or three other shepherds joined him in the search.

They show that three toes have been lost from the left forefoot.

King Solomon lived three thousand years ago.

The schoolhouse was two or three miles from home, but he did not mind the long walk through the woods and over the hills.