How to Use forty-five in a Sentence

forty-five

noun
  • Its share price fell by forty-five per cent.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At forty-five years old, Shane was fit and healthy.
    — John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Across forty-five years, my course began that way.
    — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Others leave voice notes that are forty-five minutes long.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Sorry, this episode is an hour and forty-five minutes long?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • The forty-five minutes felt useless; the pre-meeting did not.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Supply runs to Palatka, some forty-five miles away, took all of two weeks.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Instead of a forty-five-minute charge or a one-hour charge that was considered to be a fast charge.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2021
  • His wife, Joy, had recently passed away, of cancer, at age forty-five.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Thus far, it has been viewed, on YouTube, more than a hundred and forty-five million times.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Hewitt told me about a forty-five-year-old woman who sought help with chronic anxiety.
    — Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In the Bible-study class, Roof sat quietly for forty-five minutes.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
    — Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Some forty of us and our teachers went by school bus forty-five miles to the Philadelphia Zoo.
    — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • What that means—when Bunty might report to work, and what happens after forty-five days—went unsaid.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • When the battery’s completely flat, this increases to two hours and forty-five minutes.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.
    — Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • No man who is about to be hanged in three hours and forty-five minutes has ever tried to kill himself with a Montecristo.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Back then, there were nearly forty-five thousand children in foster care; now there are fewer than sixty-five hundred.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • Her mother started driving in from Hutto—about forty-five minutes away—every day.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Her mother started driving in from Hutto—about forty-five minutes away—every day.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • By 2021, some forty-five thousand SIJ youth were in line for a visa and green card.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • The boy sets a goal of identifying forty-five different birds in one day, but the birds don’t like the noise of war, so there is no birdsong.
    — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • The younger, Layla, writes and mails lengthy letters to my dog—not to me or my spouse, but to my forty-five pound blue heeler Galilee.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • So, right now, according to this law, a person can be arrested without so much as an arrest warrant for up to forty-five days.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Up on the Stüdlgrat, the wind rose to some forty-five miles an hour, and with the wind chill the temperature felt well below zero.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024

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