FIFTEEN in a Sentence
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208 example sentences for FIFTEEN, such as:
1. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous.
2. I was upon my legs at the end of fifteen days.
3. Try to do fifteen minutes of gentle exercise every day.
4. A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
5. The boat measured fifteen feet in length and four feet in breadth.
2. I was upon my legs at the end of fifteen days.
3. Try to do fifteen minutes of gentle exercise every day.
4. A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
5. The boat measured fifteen feet in length and four feet in breadth.
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Meanings and Examples of FIFTEEN
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fifteen
a. being one more than fourteen
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
Classic Sentence: (189 in 13 pages)
1 Three thousand good mathematicians went to work; it was ready in fifteen days, and did not cost more than twenty million sterling in the specie of that country.
2 They disputed fifteen successive days, and on the last of those fifteen days, they were as far advanced as on the first.
3 Her daughter, aged fifteen, was among the punters, and notified with a covert glance the cheatings of the poor people who tried to repair the cruelties of fate.
4 My parents forced me at the age of fifteen to put on this detestable habit, to increase the fortune of a cursed elder brother, whom God confound.
5 I was upon my legs at the end of fifteen days.
6 Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.
7 It will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year.
8 On these fifteen hundred francs these two old women and the old man subsisted.
9 A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
10 One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
11 "And fifteen sous," added the man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
12 One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
13 My brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
14 At all events, his hoard had been reduced by various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure.
15 "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the man's voice.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 According to one study, belts are worn only by about fifteen percent of drivers and passengers in cities, and only nine percent in small towns.
2 He started beating me when I was about fifteen but I didn't do anything to provoke him.
3 They rusticated in villages off the beaten track for nearly fifteen years.
4 The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
5 Try to do fifteen minutes of gentle exercise every day.
6 Modern cosmology believes the Universe to have come into existence about fifteen billion years ago.
7 The boat measured fifteen feet in length and four feet in breadth.
8 A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
9 The ages of the students of our class range from fifteen to eighteen.
10 They murdered fifteen boys in a killing spree across southern California.
11 The Post Office has confirmed that up to fifteen thousand jobs could be lost.
12 International contractors started tunneling under this city of fifteen million to help relieve horrendous congestion.
13 But the deal involves a fifteen billion euro cash injection, and may yet fall foul of regulators in Brussels.
14 Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.
15 So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.