SIXTY in a Sentence
Learn SIXTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
94 example sentences for SIXTY, such as:
1. This fire hose is about sixty feet long.
2. Flower power was a product of the sixties.
3. This dictionary has sixty thousand entries.
4. He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.
5. There are three of us here, and we have room for sixty.
2. Flower power was a product of the sixties.
3. This dictionary has sixty thousand entries.
4. He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.
5. There are three of us here, and we have room for sixty.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SIXTY
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sixty
n. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
a. being ten more than fifty
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1 The master of the house was a man of sixty, and very rich.
2 There are three of us here, and we have room for sixty.
3 I was sixty years of age when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its affairs.
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
4 One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom were over sixty years of age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
5 The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs.
6 This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
7 Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of business man's face, and the air of a rascal.
8 A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed.
9 Total for Waterloo, forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; sixty thousand dead.
10 Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is three feet.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
11 He would have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, where everything breathed depression and weariness of life.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
12 This is the Rue Platriere, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty years ago.
13 One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter from his aunt, and the sixty pistoles, that is to say, six hundred francs in gold, in a sealed box.
14 Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and sent him the sixty pistoles several times.
15 Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs of him.
Example Sentence:
1 Police have issued a description of the man who was aged between fifty and sixty.
2 I'd like to have dinner for sixty dollars including drinks.
3 Something like sixty percent of all married men will have an affair at some point in their marriage.
4 I love very much, a minute only love you sixty seconds.
5 He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.
6 This dictionary has sixty thousand entries.
7 The Weather Channel warned viewers about a rising gale, with winds of up to sixty miles per hour.
8 This fire hose is about sixty feet long.
9 That wealth has yet to trickle down to Indian villages where over sixty percent of Indians live.
10 I've got sixty shares in the company, but that's small beer compared with his a hundred thousand.
11 You can make a statement with your choice of coiffure: in the sixties many African Americans affirmed their racial heritage by wearing their hair in Afros.
12 Cricket fights, which were a popular pastime in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, are quite rare in Hong Kong nowadays.
13 Flower power was a product of the sixties.
14 Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties.