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How to use threescore in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word threescore? Here are some examples.

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Her hair was as grey as someone of threescore and ten years old and cropped short.
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.
I well remember, Now that the sawdust of threescore and ten In a Greek theatre's slave-heaven Poetic title for the sonnet stair.
Roger Crispine hath in his house eight persons he tilleth twenty acres of barley & oats & hath four bushels of wheat, fifty of barley & threescore of oats.
Rev 11:3-4 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
I was 70 last year and there is something about achieving threescore years and 10, isn't there?
The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.
But what of those people who have outlasted their quota of threescore years and ten only to be kept in a state of half-life by the skills of medicine?
People who volunteer for military service or act bravely in battle consciously risk giving up most of their Biblically allotted threescore and ten, and for some this choice is both wise and generous beyond belief.
A month later, you are well enough to ride with your brother and sister on the roof of the overloaded bus that bears your family and threescore cramped others to the city.
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Examples from Classical Literature
The actual anniversary that marked her threescore had had nothing to do with it.
Now I am more than threescore years and ten, and the rest of my days are numbered.
One fancied that at twenty he must have looked very much like what he was now at threescore.
At forty, at sixty, at threescore and ten, let not an old penitent despair.
Baron Bredow had employed some threescore of Russian prisoners on his place.
At the eleventh hour I and threescore followers will cross the nullah.
I would never marry after threescore, but live in a hospitable manner, yet still on the saving side.
Presently whom should he see but this same Will flying madly forth from the gates again, closely pursued by the Sheriff and threescore men.
He himself lived a little beyond his threescore and ten years.
The age allotted to mortals by the Psalmist is threescore and ten.
Sort of insinuate the blow bore down on my threescore and ten year?
The trucks were all of iron, and heavy, and they put about threescore hams on each of them, a load of more than a quarter of a ton.
Samuel Adams died in 1803, at the age of above threescore and ten.
The whole circle of threescore monsters seemed to rise about us.
The other agreed, and they cut down two willow wands of a summer's growth that grew beneath a brier, and set them up at a distance of threescore yards.
I must have threescore cattle killed,' said she, 'and cut up into quarters, and every time I look over my shoulder he must throw one of them into my mouth.
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