How to Use fourth in a Sentence

fourth

noun

• She drank a fourth of the bottle.
• In the fourth, the Heat as a team went 2 for 7 from the free-throw line.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
• In the second, 3. Eight in the third quarter and 3 in the fourth.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Smith got just enough to push it over the wall to make it 1-0 in the fourth.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2024
• He was charged in three of the killings, and is the prime suspect in a fourth.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 23 July 2023
• That’s less than a fourth of the number who walked off the job in 2021.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2023
• The Dodgers built an early 4-0 lead, but the Yankees took the lead in the fourth.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• Tyler Soderstrom put the A’s on the board with a two-out double in the fourth.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
• In the fourth, Cleveland loaded the bases with one out.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• But that was short of the three-fourths vote the measure required to pass.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2019
• The Bruins added a touchdown in the third quarter and two more in the fourth.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
• Lillard scored nine points in the first quarter, 13 in the second, 11 in the third and six in the fourth.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• Home runs by Cooper Hummel and Brice Matthews in the fourth stretched the lead to 10-4.
  — Timothy Malcolm, Chron, 29 Sep. 2024
• But the Panthers played Montgomery even for the next two quarters and took the lead in the fourth.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• In the case of the Panthers, three-fourths of the NFL owners must approve a team sale.
  — Rick Rothacker, charlotteobserver, 9 Jan. 2018
• Three-fourths of the deaths were people 65 years of age or older.
  — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 5 June 2020
• The third season is in the works and it has already been renewed for a fourth.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 May 2023
• Buehler retired the side in order on 14 pitches in the third but walked Mitchell to open the fourth.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• But Dallas fought back in the second half, going on a 22-7 run to cut the game to 3 late in the fourth.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Megertu was second, Jepchirchir third and Yehualaw fourth.
  — Andrew Das, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• George Gascón received less than a fourth of the vote on Tuesday night.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• His performance kept his team in the game, and the Giants scored nine runs in the fourth to take a 9-2 lead.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 June 2024
• Bour’s home run in the seventh was his fourth of the season and traveled 387 feet.
  — Andre C. Fernandez, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2017
• The third season of the show just wrapped and Starz is expected to pick it up for a fourth.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• But it’s been a second, two fourths and a fifth since in graded stakes.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• The Clippers finished the third quarter with a 66-65 lead and led by as many as six points in the fourth.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• Australia had won three straight golds in the event, making this their fourth in a row.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2024
• The Eagles were controlling the clock and in position to ice the game late in the fourth.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• His clutch two-out single in a five-run fourth helped Odyssey pull away.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• Three-fourths of the 22 people who testified spoke against the plan.
  — Diane Stafford, kansascity, 16 May 2017

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024