Sentence examples for the thirds from inspiring English sources

In principle all the thirds are neutral, but in practice the thirds rendered by the singers often approximate natural major thirds (386 cents), especially at points of rest.

The seconds will plunder the thirds for their best batsman and probably won't give him back.

The thirds will reluctantly borrow someone from the fourths, hoping he won't let them down too much.

Roberto Martínez said the patchy state of the pitch was a key factor in his side's inability to play through the thirds with the fluency and cohesion he wanted, but he was delighted by his side's defensive display.

"He had started in the thirds, moved up to the seconds and he was talented enough for me to make a commitment I couldn't really keep and tell him he would be in the firsts in his final year," Smith says.

Mr. Albright sailed through Chopin's Opus 25 Études with a jaw-dropping technique, his hands blurring over the keyboard in No. 10, "Octaves," and making easy work of the thirds in No. 6. Virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality throughout, evident in his playful approach to No. 3, "Cartwheel" and the soulful introspection he brought to No. 7, "Cello".

The second?

The first, "The Inauguration.

And the third and the fourth.

Flooding destroyed the first; fire, the second.

The first is normative, the second sociological.