Sentence examples for lines of three from inspiring English sources

Lines of three dozen people or more, withdrawing as much money as possible, were common sights.

She habitually worked in verse forms suggestive of hymns and ballads, with lines of three or four stresses.

The heavy turnout created lines of three hours or more at some polls, where platoons of international observers watched over the vote.

The typical chayote was "along the lines of three times their monthly wage," said Agustin Barrios Gomez, a radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist.

And in a beautifully simple phrase, two lines, of three men each, re-enter the stage in low sideways jumps toward the center.

For afters, the strawberry dish is nice enough, but the pièce de résistance is the British and Irish cheese board; six elegantly sliced cheeses – whites and blues, softs and hards, smellies and non smellies – in two lines of three with a couple of chutneys and quince nestled in between.

That's three lines of five, seven and five syllables, respectively.

Instead we chose two lines of four: close together, narrow.

The crowd went wild as they came past in lines of twenty.

But the simple rules of the Japanese verse -- seventeen syllables broken down into three lines of five, seven and five -- have given him a pithy outlet for his frustration.

He even performed a few lines of one of his songs.