Collocations for "ten"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "ten" in context.
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ten
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the number ten
- [one hundred] and ten
- the player wearing number ten
- on a scale from one to ten
- [five] out of ten [doctors, dentists, teachers] agree that
- gave the [athlete, gymnast] a perfect ten out of ten
- got a perfect ten out of ten for her [routine, dive, performance]
- count by tens
- paid in tens
- [section, part, page] ten
- [turn to, on] page ten
- cards: the ten of [spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds]
- ten plus [one] [equals, is, makes] [eleven]
- ten [minus, take away] [one] [equals] [nine]
- ten [times, multiplied by] [five] [equals] [fifty]
- [multiply, divide] it by ten
- [rolled, picked, dealt, played, threw] a ten
- there are ten in total
- finished in the [first, top, fastest] ten
- a family of ten
- no [more, fewer] than ten
- the clock struck ten
- at the stroke of ten
- [half, twenty, ten] past ten
- it [starts, finishes] at ten
- (at) ten in the [morning, afternoon]
- ten [AM, PM]
- (just) turned ten (years old)
- will be ten (years old) (tomorrow)
- [about, approximately, around, near] ten
- [just, only] ten left
- is ten years old
- a ten-year-old [child, dog]
- ten [weeks, days] later
- ten weeks [ago, before, after]
- took me ten hours to finish
- ten [years, months, minutes]
- took ten [years] to [build, finish, complete]
- costs ten [dollars, euros, pounds]
- weighs ten [kilos, grams, ounces, tons]
- measures ten [miles, feet, meters]
- is ten [miles] [long, deep, out]
- is ten kilometers from [home, the airport, the city center]
- is ten years [old, of age]
- is ten times [bigger, larger, longer]
- is ten times the [size, length] (of)
- ten per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- ten [in, out of] every hundred
- the album has ten [tracks, songs]
- the top ten [movies, songs, tips]
- the Ten Commandments
- were ten (of them) in [total, all]
- [got, scored] a perfect ten
- size ten [shoes, clothes, sneakers]
'ten' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Arabic
- Greek
- accent
- accord
- addicted
- admission
- album
- allotment
- ancillary
- apex
- approximately
- arabic
- backward
- bare
- between
- bidding
- billboard
- billion
- bonus
- bowling
- button
- can
- carton
- checkout
- chemist
- cigarette
- city
- clearance
- cohort
- compass
- confirmed
- consultancy
- container
- contribution
- conviction
- crank
- cruise
- curfew
- deadline
- decline
- decrease
- departure
- deposit
- descent
- destination
- dice
- district
- disturbance
- ditch
- diving