Use two in a sentence
Sentences starting with two
- Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
- Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
- Two or three years ago I had an appointment to meet Mr. Daly on the stage of this theatre at eight o'clock in the evening. [5]
- Two months ahead would be still better I suppose, but I don't know. [5]
- Two other episodes worthy of a place in this act of the drama occurred that morning, and one had to do with Ephraim. [9]
- Two horsemen were within a hundred yards, coming straight at him. [13]
- Two physicians were with him, and she grew pale as she recognized in one of them the emperor's Roman body-physician. [10]
- Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
- Two of these winding tunnels stand as proof of Nature's mining abilities. [5]
- Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
Sentences ending with two
- Already he had wounded five and killed two. [11]
- We said we would be close comrades and happy--just we two. [5]
- Does it tally with the other two? [5]
- We'll sit down with it in a day or two. [9]
- Does it tally with B's other two? [5]
- He was obsessed with anxiety, for he had a dark fear that some ill had happened to the two. [11]
- He had no wish to hear the interview which must take place between the two. [11]
- Elsie was the wilder of the two. [6]
- Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
- The only question which intruded itself was, whether he might not have preferred the company of one to that of two. [6]
Short sentences using two
- More than two years ago. [5]
- That is two years ago. [11]
- My two columns were filled. [5]
- Two of them were armed. [11]
- This was two weeks ago. [5]
- They have two uses. [7]
- Which of the two? [2]
- Mr. Maker took two. [9]
- Give us Number Two. [6]
- You've lived, you two. [11]
Sentences containing two two or more times
- I swear to you, Sir, I believe that these two centres of civilization are just exactly the two points that close the circuit in the battery of our planetary intelligence! [6]
- Since two thousand years all these coasts have changed more or less, risen and sunk, and the temples and palaces of two civilizations have tumbled into the sea. [4]
- Joan walked two yards behind the Count, we three walked two yards behind Joan. [5]
- Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors. [5]
- If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
- But these two will go cinch to cinch all the way, like two brothers --like you and me. [11]
- Was it this which had been more or less vaguely working in his mind a little while before when she had noticed a change in him; or was it that he was disappointed that they were two and no more--always two, and no more? [11]
- Two of these were Janet's mother and father, and the other two were Mr. Worthington, the elder, and the Honorable Heth Sutton. [9]
- The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and were to relieve each other every two hours. [5]
- And then we went to Mr. Moseley's, two miles, and all of them were gone to the camp meeting over on Stony Fork; and then we came all the way back, two miles, and then here, another mile--and Providence has provided. [5]
More example sentences with the word two in them
- I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
- Greater men than you--the two Aurelians--will guide it. [10]
- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- The roll the youth had brought to the camp contained two letters. [10]
- We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
- The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
- The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
- I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
- Evidently these two young men were unfamiliar with the dueling ceremonies, though they were not unfamiliar with the sword. [5]
- At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
- These were two young men from Stamford, Connecticut--brothers: Samuel and Henry Ferguson. [5]
- So the two young men became first dear, and finally almost indispensable to each other. [10]
- He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
- I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
- But to play you, the greatest gambler in the West, for two thousand dollars-- yes, I'd like the sting of it again. [11]
- I'm sorry for you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and I've come to say that I'm ready to lend you two thousand dollars, if that's any help. [11]
- That is what you will say, Thomas--and you wouldn't take any money for those two thousand verses--no indeed you wouldn't. [5]
- It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
- He added that you were expected to arrive in two weeks. [7]
- But I bid you welcome, Richard," said his Lordship; "you come with two of the most delightful vagabonds in the world. [9]
- Upon my soul, you two should fence like a pair of veterans. [11]
- He will show you two letters of mine on this subject, one somewhat General, and the other relating to named persons; they are not different in principle. [7]
- But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either. [12]
- I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
- I will tell you the brief tale of two lives. [11]
- Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
- Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
- Can any of you tell what those two words are? [6]
- I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
- To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
- By the figures you send, which I presume are correct, the twelve districts represented fall into two classes of eight and four respectively. [7]
- And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
- I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes--one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one full of interest, inflamed with it, white-hot with it. [5]
- So I caution you not to spend rashly those two words, sir. [9]
- Here or anywhere you must scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. [5]
- I will marry you in two months-and a day. [11]
- I will tell you in two hours. [11]
- And I'll see you in a day or two in Washington, Watling. [9]
- All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
- She also says you have written me two letters, and that, although you do not expect me to come now, you wonder that I do not write. [7]
- I have watched you for two years. [11]
- Since you say you could recognise the originals of all except the heroines, pray whom did you suppose the two Moores to represent? [14]
- Any time that you can make it convenient to tarry a day or two with me, I shall be glad to have you. [5]
- No doubt, however, you are, as I am, prepared for critical severity; but I have good hopes that the vessel is sufficiently sound of construction to weather a gale or two, and to make a prosperous voyage for you in the end. [14]
- To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
- And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
- I will give you a specimen of Hipponax's Poetry: "There are but two days when a wife, Brings pleasure to her husband's life, The wedding-day, when hopes are bright, And the day he buries her out of his sight. [10]
- I will give you a case or two presently. [5]
- Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
- It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
- It made distinct, yet with no obvious purpose, how good were friendship and confidence--which might be the most unselfish thing in the world--between two men. [11]
- A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
- But for two years, and with leisure, he did nothing. [4]
- It is four years, and still there are but two in your lodge. [11]
- It is two years too long, dear Cure. [11]
- Again in later years the two men met, the stranger the aggressor--without due cause. [11]
- It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
- It was two years since Burlingame had been in this room, and then he had entered it without invitation. [11]
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- But still two years passed before David came. [11]
- Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
- She was two years old on the first of the month. [5]
- The first two years of his stay he had plenty to do. [11]
- Of the two years divided between the Universities of Berlin and Gottingen I have little to record. [6]
- Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
- Why, two hundred years before the King was born, an Enderby was promised an earldom. [11]
- Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
- During the first year or, two after it happened, I could not bear to think of it. [5]
- An' that's what ye cahl it when ye 're kapin' company with one young gintleman an' don't want another young gintleman to come in an' help the two of ye? [6]
- About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
- About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered. [2]
- It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
- He remained at Yale two years, and then threw up the struggle. [5]
- I have been wrought and unsettled in mind by apprehensions, and that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in a strange land and sees his resources melt down to a two months' supply and can't see any sure daylight beyond. [5]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- In all she wrote she kept but two things back, her grandfather's death--and one other. [11]
- He had been wrong nearly every time for two years. [11]
- Suppose you didn't write the real wise thing--and only two sheets of paper and so much to say? [11]
- They was Carter, Wright, Jengessen, an' two new riders from Stone Bridge. [13]
- He surveyed the wreck which that old rioter and those two young farmers had made, and then said "This is a sad business--a very sad business. [5]
- But suddenly the woven roof parted; invisible hands drew away the two halves. [10]
- His riata was wound around the pummel of my saddle, and so, as he went by he dragged me from my horse and the two animals traveled briskly on without me. [5]
- And the device would take on color, red-bronze like the sumach in the autumn and streaks of vermilion, and two glowing coals that were eyes, and above them eagles' feathers, and the cracks became bramble bushes. [9]
- He hoped fortune would so favour him that he could arrange for the meeting of the two alone, or, at least, in his presence only. [11]
- Mamma said it would never do for two capitalists to have their eggs in the same basket. [4]
- He said he would let Harris go for two francs; and that unless we were unusually timid, he should consider guides and porters unnecessary; it was not customary to take them, when going by telescope, for they were rather an encumbrance than a help. [5]
- Finally, if I would lend him $500 a year for two years, (this was 4 or 5 years ago,) he knew he could make a success as a lawyer, and would prove it. [5]
- Of course he would have two sides to his life like most men: that lived before the world, and that of the home. [11]
- I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
- I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
- Then Miles Hendon would cripple some of those people, and carry off his little ward, and comfort and cheer him with loving words, and the two would never be separated any more. [5]
- Not what you would call two notes in the same key, she and Crozier," he reflected as he told her she need not trouble about her luggage, and took charge of the checks for it. [11]
- The 'last bells' would begin to clang, all down the line, and then the powwow seemed to double; in a moment or two the final warning came,--a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, 'All dat ain't goin', please to git asho'! [5]
- The latter process would be greatly aided by the inherited effects of the increased use of parts, and these two processes would incessantly react on each other. [1]
- Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
- I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. [5]
- The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
- The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
- Why in the world she should ever have been curious about Jethro Bass is a mystery to many, for the two of them were as far apart as the poles. [9]
- The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. [5]
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