Sentence examples for three score from inspiring English sources
Three score and twenty-seven?
Some three score persons responded to photographer's "Steady, please".
Three Score and Ten is released on 14 September.
The biblical three score years and 10 set the standard.
And now Three Score & Ten is very nearly finished.
"Sure, didn't he reach his three score and ten?" the other says.
Oblomov has a stroke and is paralysed (had he ever been anything else?) and five slow years later dies, well short of the statutory three-score-and-10; although doubtless his lifespan felt positively Methuselean to him.
It was—even if mainly in theory three score and ten in Biblical times, and it isn't much more now.
I've met quite a few Americans in my three-score and seven.
**** For someone who's the other side of three-score-years-and ten, John Cleese hasn't learned very much.
The Bible's dreary statement that a life span is "three-score years and ten'' and its tired talk about times to be born and times to die now smell strongly of plain old defeatism.
