innings – English noun declension

English noun forms of innings

Noun: innings
Singularinnings
Pluralinnings

Sample Sentences

  • Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's. [1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine:]
  • My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”. [2007, Roger F. Peters, Police Under Pressure: A Donkey on the Edge, Roger Peters, →ISBN, page 22:]
  • He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England. [2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:]
  • You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect. [2010, Jacqueline James M P, An Ignoble End, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 79:]
  • Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three. [2012, Peter Fitzpatrick, The Two Frank Thrings, Monash University Publishing, →ISBN, page 523:]

Nouns inflected like innings

series, gallows, Snickers, rendezvous, innings,

Etymology

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).