ELEVENTH in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for ELEVENTH, such as:
1. He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
2. He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
3. Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday.
4. The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
5. At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ELEVENTH
eleventh
 a.  coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position
 n.  position 11 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1  And as up to the eleventh of July no manifesto or appeal had been received, exaggerated reports became current about them and about the position of Russia.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
2  On the night of the eleventh of October he lay leaning on his arm and thinking of that.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVII
3  When the flight of the French army along the Smolensk road became well defined, what Konovnitsyn had foreseen on the night of the eleventh of October began to occur.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIX
4  As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
5  The big storm of the winter began on my eleventh birthday, the twentieth of January.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
6  This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
2  The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
3  At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
4  He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
5  Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we'd have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
6  In a ceremony on the White House lawn, President Bush will remember the victims of September the eleventh.
7  Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday.