How to Use three in a Sentence

three

noun

• I leave each day at three.
• The buzz: Takes a lot of 3s, makes a lot of threes (42 percent).
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2018
• The reserve guard hit five threes and scored 19 points.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Richard has made a team-high 22 threes in the league and Jones is second on the team with 19.
  — Scottie Bordelon, Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
• Plus, miss me with the idea that Clark couldn’t be used to run off screens and shoot a few threes.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
• The Sixers missed four threes in the final minutes and the Celtics held on to take the win.
  — Sarah Todd, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• That’s not the best fit for an All-Star Game that includes a lot of threes and points.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• The flowers are grouped in threes because King Charles is the third of his name.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s so many things, from not giving up a lot of threes.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2024
• In the second half, the Wizards succumbed to a rain of threes … and gave up 62 points.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• The Monarchs led by as many as 18 in the first half, making eight threes.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Graham hit four threes and scored 14 of KU’s first 21 points.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
• Only eight made threes for them tonight, and our guys are locked in.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• All of those role guys are going to have wide open threes in the playoffs.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• Geneva hit eight threes to open the game and led 51-20 at halftime.
  — Rich Mayor, Aurora Beacon-News, 14 Feb. 2018
• Through Game 5, Tatum was 6 for 21 on pull-up threes in this series.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• Clark hit nine threes, on her way to forty-one points and twelve assists.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• One of Williams' threes came at the buzzer at the end of the first half from several feet behind the arc.
  — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
• The Sixers have made 16 open threes, at a dim 30 percent.
  — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• Jumpers are rimming out: Both teams have missed a total of six threes to start the game.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 7 June 2019
• The Cavs' Kevin Love shoots threes, posts up, rebounds, takes charges in the paint and defends guards on the high pick-and-roll.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Klay Thompson had 15 points, going five for 14 from the field and three for nine on threes.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
• Marte hit two big threes to start the game as Osceola built a 21-9 lead in the first quarter.
  — OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Or is the answer simply taking more threes than the Knicks?
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• But sometimes when the first couple of threes don’t drop, the entire team goes cold.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Krzyzewski is no longer a coach who might get freaked if Syracuse hits a few threes to start the game.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• The players are shooting threes (3-point shots), but the fans are talking twos.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• Good things do tend to come in threes (except for celebrity deaths).
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• In this decade, only two players have hit at least 1,000 threes.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• That piece is a polyrhythm-palooza — threes on twos, twos on threes, three-counts and two-counts alternating.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024