NINETEENTH in a Sentence
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47 example sentences for NINETEENTH, such as:
1. The nineteenth century is poison.
2. This custom dates from the nineteenth century.
3. This scientist lived in the nineteenth century.
4. Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
5. At the end of the first round,he was nineteenth.
2. This custom dates from the nineteenth century.
3. This scientist lived in the nineteenth century.
4. Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
5. At the end of the first round,he was nineteenth.
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Meanings and Examples of NINETEENTH
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nineteenth
n. position 19 in a countable series of things
a. coming next after the eighteenth in position
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century.
2 Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
3 The aggrandizement which they have brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source.
4 One of the most undisputed forms of the health of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and over the continent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
5 In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis.
6 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
7 A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is a college of owls facing the light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
8 So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
9 The nineteenth century is poison.
10 This house was churlish to the nineteenth century.
11 He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth.
12 The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply impossible.
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
13 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
14 This is the gestation of the nineteenth century.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
15 Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 The following quotation is taken from a nineteenth century travel diary.
2 She collects paintings by nineteenth - century Australian artists.
3 In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.
4 Cycling enjoyed a vogue at the end of the nineteenth century.
5 Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century.
6 This custom dates from the nineteenth century.
7 Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace.
8 This building epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century.
9 His new book is a survey of European theatre in the nineteenth century.
10 At the end of the first round,he was nineteenth.
11 The term "acid rain" was coined in the nineteenth century.
12 The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a considerable antipathy to trade unionism among influential public opinion.
13 The Roth family, whose progenitor emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century, settled in Peru, Illinois.
14 This scientist lived in the nineteenth century.
15 No antenna, no radio, we're back in the nineteenth century!