NINE in a Sentence

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289 example sentences for NINE, such as:
1. A wonder lasts but nine days.
2. At that moment, nine o'clock struck.
3. It was only nine o'clock in the evening.
4. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous.
5. The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of NINE
nine
 n.  one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The cannons first of all laid flat about six thousand men on each side; the muskets swept away from this best of worlds nine or ten thousand ruffians who infested its surface.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until morning on the ground floor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
3  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.
4  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.
5  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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
6  I will explain it to you, you see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to nine sous; and it is not enough to live on.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8  At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE
9  At six francs the shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred millions a year, which vanish in smoke.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
10  Since then nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
11  A prioress can only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a prioress at nine years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
12  They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them by a serge curtain nine feet in height.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
13  At that moment, nine o'clock struck.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
14  "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
15  It was only nine o'clock in the evening.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
Example Sentence: (79 in 6 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  At the age of nine, he had the death of both parents to contend with.
3  It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out.
4  There's a nine - storey apartment building next to the bank.
5  The map shows the rest of the western region, encompassing nine states.
6  A wonder lasts but nine days.
7  The presentation of prizes will begin in the town hall at nine o'clock.
8  When Des cooks dinner he always goes the whole nine yards, with three courses and a choice of dessert.
9  The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
10  And a Senator must have been a citizen of the United States for nine years at the time of his election.
11  Civil war in the Sudan has been grinding on for nine years.
12  A group of gunmen attacked a prison and set free nine criminals in Moroto.
13  The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
14  The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
15  He produced a hand-written list of nine men he was supposed to kill.