FIFTEENTH in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for FIFTEENTH, such as:
1. The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
2. The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.
3. This was Italian work of the fifteenth century.
4. Men must learn till they reach their fifteenth year.
5. He traces his family back to about the fifteenth century.
2. The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.
3. This was Italian work of the fifteenth century.
4. Men must learn till they reach their fifteenth year.
5. He traces his family back to about the fifteenth century.
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Meanings and Examples of FIFTEENTH
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fifteenth
n. position 15 in a countable series of things
a. coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
Classic Sentence:
1 Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an immense number of carriages were standing outside the Sloboda Palace.
2 The princess decided to leave on the fifteenth.
3 On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous.
4 Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried off by a large ball.
5 So far as institution and formation with relation to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
6 The cardinal, who sometimes became weary of the king, granted this leave of absence with great pleasure to his royal lieutenant, who promised to return about the fifteenth of September.
7 He was taken to Bow Street, as well as I remember, on the completion of his fifteenth journey; when four-and-sixpence, and a second-hand fife which he couldn't play, were found upon his person.
8 And besides, on that day, as it was the fifteenth, he had to give his wife some money for her expenses, according to their usual arrangement.
9 On the fifteenth day I came in sight of the big river again, and hobbled into the Central Station.
10 This was Italian work of the fifteenth century.
11 Men must learn till they reach their fifteenth year.
12 And if sometimes, in the secret darkness of our heart, we regret that which befell us on our fifteenth birthday, we know that it was through our own guilt.
13 So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century.
Example Sentence:
1 The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
2 The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
3 The castle was enlarged considerably in the fifteenth century.
4 He traces his family back to about the fifteenth century.
5 The boat leaves Liverpool on the fifteenth, but before we set sail(for New York) I have to spend a few days in Scotland.