TWENTIETH in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for TWENTIETH, such as:
1. Today is the twentieth of September.
2. will find on raising the twentieth ro.
3. That's the twentieth goal he's kicked this season.
4. This is a world history brought down to the end of the twentieth century.
5. lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro.
2. will find on raising the twentieth ro.
3. That's the twentieth goal he's kicked this season.
4. This is a world history brought down to the end of the twentieth century.
5. lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TWENTIETH
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twentieth
a. coming next after the nineteenth in position
n. position 20 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1 was by the grace of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence.
2 They counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
3 Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy.
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...
4 Today is the twentieth of September.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
5 I dare not clasp your knees, but I am in great distress; yesterday made the twentieth day that I had been tossing about upon the sea.
6 Such as I am, it is I, who after long wandering and much hardship have got home in the twentieth year to my own country.
7 I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.
8 will find on raising the twentieth ro.
9 lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro.
10 Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.
11 The big storm of the winter began on my eleventh birthday, the twentieth of January.
12 All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard 'giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day.
13 In the highest army circles from midday on the nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz was fought.
Example Sentence:
1 In the twentieth century, physicists have made their greatest discoveries about the characteristics of infinitesimal objects like the atom and its parts.
2 That's the twentieth goal he's kicked this season.
3 The twentieth century witnessed the rapid urbanization of the world's population.
4 This is a world history brought down to the end of the twentieth century.