How to Use forty in a Sentence

forty

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sokolow is in his mid-forties, with deep brown eyes fringed with heavy lashes, a Pat Buchanan–size head, and a brash confidence.
  — Vanessa Grigoriadis, The Cut, 15 Dec. 2017
• The victim has so far only been identified as a man in his forties or fifties.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• Nat, a man in his mid-forties, has a diction that feels decidedly out of joint with his age and his era.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2019
• Democrats gained forty seats in the House of Representatives, the largest net gain for the party in a single election since 1947.
  — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
• The Chicana women who wore an early version of the style in the forties—the makeup, the tight sweaters, the zoot suits, the pompadours—were referred to as pachucas.
  — Carmen Maria MacHado, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024