Three For Five

In each row, find a 3-letter word whose letters, in some order, can also be used to complete the 7-, 6-, 5-, and 4-letter words. If you'd like to increase the challenge and amuse the rest of us, please answer by using all five words in one sentence.

-1. s-a-l-w, -al--p, be---, -o--, ---
-2. le-t--e, cl---h, -r--k, --r-, ---
-3. -l-a-ac, -edi--, --e-d, --i-, ---
-4. cl-t--s, b-t--r, -p-c-, --r-, ---
-5. b--di-g, -at-o-, l--e-, ---e, ---
-6. vi--at-, s-m-e-, p---e, ---n, ---
-7. p--ri-y, -lu-n-, -l-e-, --l-, ---
-8. s-r--ny, -o--rd, -h--k, -l--, ---
-9. c--r-er, --ris-, -r-p-, --n-, ---
-10. a--o-nt, -o-l-n, -r-m-, ---e, ---

1. swallow, wallop, below, wool, low

When I tried to swallow my wool sweater and began to choke, someone gave me a wallop just below my shoulder blades, but not too low.

2. lettuce, clutch, truck, curt, cut

Good solves! And great sentence, Sherlock!

10. Appoint, poplin, primp, pipe, pip

3. almanac, median, amend, main man

The man decided to amend the almanac to show the newly installed median on main street.

4. clothes, bother, epoch, hero, hoe

Trog became the hero of the dawn of the agricultural epoch by inventing the hoe despite the fact that he was known to not bother with clothes.

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9.
charger

garish,

graph

hang

hag

HANG it all, you GARISH HAG, check your flight plan on the GRAPH and grab your bag, then plug that electric broom into the CHARGER and get it in gear, because Halloween is over until next year.

8. The coward picked up a long wooden stick to whack the scrawny crow
which lifted its claw and let loose a harsh caw.

I've got 3 letters for #7, but can't make a 3-letter word with 'em.

Lol

6. vibrato, somber, probe, born, orb

A space PROBE flew by releasing sounds of an eerie VIBRATO. It's such a SOMBER moment since this ORB doesn't look like home and I miss the place where I was BORN.

Brilliant solves and even more brilliant sentences!

Helmer, I bet you have the correct three letters. The word is not a common one.

5. binding, nation, linen, nine, inn

7. pETriFy, FluEnT, FlEeT, FElT, FET

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Flo, so close! Only that last little word needs tweaked.

Haha! FET has meaning to us geeks as an abbreviation, if not a word: Field Effect Transistor

Well, there's only so many combinations and none of them make words that I can see. So, here they are. Please, which one is the word.

tef tfe eft fte


fet - Wiktionaryen.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetCached - fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past ... (oblique plural fets, nominative singular fets, nominative plural fet )

eft - going from memory, I think it is some kind of a small lizard

Newt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtCached - Newts metamorphose through three distinct developmental life stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial juvenile (called an eft), and adult. Adult newts have lizard-like ...


That must be it.

"Eft" is the one! I think the word might be more familiar to crossword puzzle enthusiasts. Well done, Bob and Flo!

And for the record, geeks are my favorite kind of people.