EIGHTEENTH in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for EIGHTEENTH, such as:
1. I took the elevator to the eighteenth floor.
2. The writer of the book lived in the eighteenth century.
3. This cave was used by smugglersin the eighteenth century.
4. The work of the eighteenth century is healthy and good and wholesome.
5. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the eighteenth century.
2. The writer of the book lived in the eighteenth century.
3. This cave was used by smugglersin the eighteenth century.
4. The work of the eighteenth century is healthy and good and wholesome.
5. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the eighteenth century.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EIGHTEENTH
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eighteenth
a. coming next after the seventeenth in position
n. position 18 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 The ancient convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga.
2 It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the eighteenth century.
3 He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and great.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
4 We find in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
5 In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy of the dejected classes vanishes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
6 The work of the eighteenth century is healthy and good and wholesome.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
7 It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut short.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8 Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be finished by the nineteenth.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9 Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his dithyrambs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
10 Aramis pleaded as his excuse a commentary upon the eighteenth chapter of St. Augustine, which he was forced to write in Latin for the following week, and which preoccupied him a good deal.
11 Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, begun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinction.
12 It stood above, aside, a very pleasant stucco building from the middle of the eighteenth century.
13 The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the eighteenth of October, a time when these strange events began to move swiftly towards their terrible conclusion.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
14 On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.
15 At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.
Example Sentence:
1 The writer of the book lived in the eighteenth century.
2 I took the elevator to the eighteenth floor.
3 This cave was used by smugglersin the eighteenth century.
4 The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs.