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Example sentences for "eighteen thousand"

  • We have taken from the enemy five thousand prisoners, and fifteen colors, captured seven pieces of artillery, and placed hors de combat eighteen thousand of our foe's chosen troops.

  • He'd have liked to be back in the cargo compartment with it, but only the pilot's cabin was pressurized, and the ship was at eighteen thousand feet, flying west by south.

  • General Ruechel was between Erfurt and Eisenach with a nominal force of eighteen thousand men, but many of this number had not yet arrived from Westphalia.

  • Holland agreed to furnish five ships of the line, a hundred gunboats, eleven thousand men, and subsistence for a French army of eighteen thousand.

  • They had thirty-five thousand men, excluding the reserve of eighteen thousand.

  • The Prince and the brilliant staff rode along the line of eighteen thousand troops.

  • On this occasion, termed by Reichardt "a peaceful and merciful entry of the clement victor," eighteen thousand of the inhabitants of every age and sex were cruelly put to the sword.

  • The levy of eighteen thousand men (the Helvetlers, Galloschwyzers or eighteen batzmen) for the service of the Helvetian republic occasioned fresh disturbances in the beginning of 1799.

  • He had no sooner declared himself, than Catinat the French general entered his territories at the head of eighteen thousand men, and defeated him in a pitched battle near Saluces, which immediately surrendered to the conqueror.

  • Mr. Pulteney asserted, that the money raised for the subsistence of eighteen thousand men in England, would maintain sixty thousand French or Germans, or the same number of almost any other people on the continent.

  • He also agreed that he would take the routes for the money he had expended, and that was between sixteen and eighteen thousand dollars.

  • The head and front was out sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars, and the other two ten thousand dollars each.

  • He was only out about sixteen thousand dollars or eighteen thousand dollars.

  • At that time three hundred thousand francs were left; the income of twenty-four thousand francs was reduced to eighteen thousand.

  • A young fellow that starts with an assured income of eighteen thousand livres at one-and-twenty is lost," said Couture.

  • By paying the Blue Star Navigation Company eighteen thousand dollars in good old U.

  • You owe me eighteen thousand dollars on that charter I canceled on you, Matt, and you ought to pay it.

  • He levied an army of eighteen thousand men, and equipped a fleet of sixty sail, one half of which were ships of war, the other laden with provisions and ammunition.

  • He raised an army of eighteen thousand men, and adding three thousand Germans, who, on the dissolution of the Protestant alliance, had offered their service to England, he gave the command of the whole to the earl of Shrewsbury.

  • This army, when joined by forces from the Low Countries, under the command of the count de Buren, amounted in the whole to eighteen thousand men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    diminish the; eighteen centuries; eighteen dollars; eighteen feet; eighteen guns; eighteen hours; eighteen hundred and forty; eighteen inches; eighteen months; eighteen shillings; eighteen thousand; eighteen years; eighteenth century; freight traffic; infinite space; moral force; most excellent; once resolved; prize courts; seventy guns; should soon; supernatural agency; take position; the sight; transitional forms; white glass