Used in a Sentence

forty

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for forty.

Editorial note

I came forty mile by Parliamentary this morning, and I’m going back the same forty mile this afternoon.

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Quick take

Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of forty gathered in one view.

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

noun

(US, slang) A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for forty.

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

noun

(US, slang) A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.

Example sentences

1

I came forty mile by Parliamentary this morning, and I’m going back the same forty mile this afternoon.

2

But maybe it is worth asking if forty year old assumptions about computer users are worth revisiting.

3

In the united states, it is unlawful for employers to discriminate for reasons of age against people over forty.

4

Seriously, Neil Young is 69 and has played feedback-drenched noise for the past forty years.

5

My wife's hair dryer wasn't new when we met and that was forty years ago, still going strong.

6

Did people in the US hold a grudge against Japan forty years later?

7

He has more than forty years experience in the electronics and energy industries.

8

We turn over several million quid, employ forty odd people, and process the better part of £1bn of ecommerce purchases in the UK.

9

And I’m not talking in thirty of forty years down the road.

10

>Did people in the US hold a grudge against Japan forty years later?

11

I always was fascinated by the X-29 simply because it could not be flown without computers to make up to forty adjustments a second to keep it airborne.

12

I viewed the source and it is clean and readable - no evidence of some lame IDE sticking in forty  's or twnety nested tables just because you wanted your column two pixels to the left.

Quote examples

1

Calling the actor model, which has been around for forty years and has been slowly gaining recognition, a "fad" is frankly ridiculous.

2

(3) Installing and running "big ball of mud" applications that want to drag in forty libraries, three different databases, memcached, and require a custom Apache configuration (and only Apache, thank you very much).

3

While in the majority of the forty countries studied there were indeed more boys than girls at the 95th and 99th percentiles, in “in some countries females are equally or more variable, or are as likely as boys to make it into the 95th percentile.“ > (Penner 2008; Machin & Pekkarinen 2008).

4

I've achieved a good deal in the forty years since then, and at times when the going has been particularly tough I've thought back to that and told myself, "Yeah, well, you were told what to expect and went ahead anyway.

Proper noun examples

1

Forty hours a week is an theoretical standard; it says little about the actual hours put in by programmers.

2

Forty people die on a patch Tuesday (it only happened for a rare procedure) before the makers manage to push out a hotfix.

3

Forty-five percent was spent on salaries, perks and travel for staff.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use forty in a sentence?

I came forty mile by Parliamentary this morning, and I’m going back the same forty mile this afternoon.

What does forty mean?

Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

What part of speech is forty?

forty is commonly used as adjective, noun.