SEVENTEENTH in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SEVENTEENTH, such as:
1. The land was enclosed in the seventeenth century.
2. Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
3. She told him at length she was leaving on the seventeenth.
4. Most of the tapestries in this room date from the seventeenth century.
5. David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of them was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SEVENTEENTH
seventeenth
 a.  coming next after the sixteenth in position
 n.  position 17 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1  Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  She told him at length she was leaving on the seventeenth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  I only mean that the count seems the rage," replied the viscount, smiling, "and that you are the seventeenth person that has asked me the same question.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
4  At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
5  "correspondency" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
Example Sentence:
1  "Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, about the hour of midnight?" Tom glanced at Injun Joe's iron face and his tongue failed him.
2  David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of them was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.
3  The land was enclosed in the seventeenth century.
4  Most of the tapestries in this room date from the seventeenth century.