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How to use the word three in a Sentence?

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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5 months ago

Always aim for the stars, even if you only land on three tops.

Marylise du Pantalon

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6 months ago

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

Alan Lightman

added by JokerGem
9 months ago

What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ?

Hamza Taouzzale

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

It was briefed to them before they signed this contract that as soon as their … flight school portion was up, they had to serve three continuous years to get aviation branch, that’s both on the ROTC side and then one West Point officer that I spoke to.

Tom Drew

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Regardless of how positive this action is, it does not absolve the president for refusing to meet with the families of the three Americans being held in Iran – collectively for a total of 18 years. We continue to plead with the White House to let us meet with our president.

Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Dr. Skop is not my physician. She has never been my physician. She has never treated me. She has not seen my medical records, quite frankly, my physician and my team of health care professionals that I saw over the course of three days, while I was repeatedly turned away from health care access, made the decision to not provide an abortion because that’s what they felt they had to do under Texas’ law.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Quite frankly, my physician and my team of health care professionals that I saw over the course of three days, while I was repeatedly turned away from health care access, made the decision to not provide an abortion because that’s what they felt they had to do under Texas’ law.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Three women, one clear pattern, pounce, kiss, grab, grope, don’t wait. When you’re a star you can do anything you want. And when they speak up about what happened, attack, humiliate them, call them liars. Call them too ugly to assault.

Shawn Crowley

Found on CNN
11 months ago

There really have been transformational advances in remote sensing technology for methane over the last decade and the last three to four years, that reporting program doesn’t require operators to go out and fly airplanes. It’s largely based on models and standard emissions factors.

Riley Duren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

Susan Walley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic, but the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we’re pretty much even, and that’s not a good place to be.

Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This year, there will be more to discuss than ever, code will build on Kara’s legacy, and we’ll continue to evolve the conference to best serve its audience. We’re proud to announce three new hosts, who are also leaders in tech journalism.

Jim Bankoff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People in the upper basin are dealing with feet and feet and feet of snow. The snowpack is still increasing, it’s a completely different trend than we’ve seen the last three years. This is definitely going to make a huge difference in the short run. But people don’t want to go too far because they don’t want to go back to complacency.

Bill Hasencamp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news.

Brenda Burman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This backpack fits everything so I do n’t need to bring three bags, it sits comfortably on my back so I ’m not lopsided and as a bonus it’s made of vegan leather.

Cassandra Chase

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We understand when we took an oath to represent the people who elected us that we speak on behalf of them. It wasn’t about the three of these leaders, it was about who they were representing. It’s about whose voices they were channeling. Understand that – and is that not what a democracy allows?

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are less than three months away from the new harvest and the danger is real, that the goods we will have ready this season will not be able to be sold at prices above production costs, we will witness a chain of bankruptcies of Romanian farmers.

Liliana Piron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am not a super-religious person, and neither is Trail Aaron. But we both feel that there was something that put us on that trail that day, and I do n’t know if that something knew the struggles that I was going to go through three months later. Or if Patricia Toro It knew that he’s going to need me in his life at one point. But we were there for a reason that day. And I know that my journey these last 17 months would have been a lot different had Trail Aaron not been there.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For three years, I hadn’t enjoyed being a husband or father. I got to see my family after nine, 10 months sometimes. That’s not the life I want.

John Mary

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main reason why I’m not surprised is that we already know that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in our country, with Black women three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, and the main disparities that we see in mortality, we also see in morbidity.

Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The finance [industry] is the last of the three key areas for Xi to assert complete control after the military and the [internal] security apparatus.

Chongyi Feng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We cannot allow the actions of the three members to distract us from protecting our children. We will get through this together, and it will require talking about all solutions.

Cameron Sexton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve had this weird pause over the last three weeks where analysts haven’t been updating earnings estimates because of the banking turmoil. Those are undoubtedly going to come, there’s currently a false sense of security that things won’t change, but a lot of the data under the surface is probably pointing towards higher odds of recession. This is not a favorable starting point for stocks as we think about the next few months.

Patrick Kaser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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