How to Use forty in a Sentence

forty

noun
Definition of fortynext
  • She is in her forties.
  • The temperature outside is in the high forties.
  • Tales for the three in the 1930’s and the four in the forties, golden ages both.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 10 June 2018
  • The man who took the car is described as Latino and in his 30s to 40s.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • That means a boss in their forties to mid-to-late fifties.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Both are in their forties and both lie about their age.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 June 2019
  • And if men in their forties no longer want to date me, well, that’s a good thing.
    — Melanie Hamlett, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Sari, now in her forties, gets fired from her last role.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Went to the Combine, ran the forty, did position drills.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The dead were then buried in the local churchyard or in family plots on the back forty of the farm.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • For now, the team doesn’t know why the cavefish have evolved to catch ten winks instead of the standard forty.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2011
  • The masks take between an hour and forty minutes to three hours to print, depending on the type of mask.
    — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2020
  • There are a lot of people in their thirties and forties who hold this movie very near and dear.
    — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
  • His approval rating in most polls has moved up from the high thirties to the low forties.
    — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • The first game Brady will play in his forties will also be the first game Belichick coaches at 65.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 30 July 2017
  • Ladenburg had opened its doors, wallets, and hearts to Ukrainian refugees, and there were about forty in the town already.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Captain is an old-man rank, a retirement rank, and Magee isn't yet forty.
    — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
  • We were very inspired by the eyewear that our grandparents wore in the forties and fifties.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Nothing harvests cash from the back forty like big data.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 June 2018
  • Say, a married couple in their forties with two teenage kids.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 Nov. 2017
  • The middle forty to fifty per cent decided the outcome of elections.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
  • At Kamalaya, a spa and yoga retreat in Koh Samui, Thailand, 55% of the guests are in their late forties.
    — Catherine Feliciano-Chon, Quartz, 29 July 2019
  • Yet this portrait baffles the U.S. diplomats who have worked with the ambassador for the better part of forty years.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Esquire, 11 May 2017
  • Until nearly the end of the forties, the United States was the only nuclear power in the world.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Christina is about to make her 40s the best decade of her life and looking better than ever while doing it!
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 11 July 2023
  • The man is described as being white with a reddish beard and in his forties wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans.
    — Ken Brown, Cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In his mid-forties, Gerber looks younger and speaks with the excitement of someone half his age.
    — Augusten Burroughs, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Alice, a woman in her forties, told me that her husband had shot her.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • But their greatest-hits collection Chronicle is riding high on the Billboard 200 every week, always somewhere in the thirties or forties.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Rife was scheduled for between thirty and forty shows a month, a breakneck pace that’s unusual outside of Broadway or professional baseball.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024

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