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Example sentences for "seventh"

Lexicographically close words:
sevenpence; sevens; sevenscore; seventeen; seventeenth; sevenths; seventies; seventieth; seventy; seventyfour
  1. On the seventh day after the great sleep had overtaken London the effects of the germ began to wane.

  2. The land must be absolutely cleared of prickly pear during the first seven years--one-seventh each year--and the clearing must be maintained until the expiry of the lease.

  3. One-seventh of the bonus payable may be claimed at the end of each of the first seven years of the term, on proof to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that the condition of eradication has been complied with.

  4. But his thoughts were not yet of retreat; he had seen enough of the Wilderness as a battle field, however, and on the evening of the seventh issued his orders for a concentration of his army on Spotsylvania.

  5. During the night the army was withdrawn to the north bank of the river, and on the morning of the twenty-seventh the sharp shooters were also withdrawn, and operations on the North Anna ceased.

  6. Leaving this place on the twenty-sixth, they marched to Point of Rocks, and on the twenty-seventh to Middletown.

  7. Merlin Grainger was employed by the Moonlight Quill Bookshop, which you may have visited, just around the corner from the Ritz-Carlton on Forty-seventh Street.

  8. Then he took a took a taxi to the room where he had been living on East Twenty-seventh Street, and, leaning across the table that held his drawing materials, fired a cartridge into his head just behind the temple.

  9. It is conjectured, from the name of the town, that it claims an origin as high as the seventh century, when the disciples of St. Vallery were obliged to quit their original monastery and take refuge elsewhere.

  10. When a woman is with child for the first time her women friends come and give her new green clothes and bangles in the seventh month; they then put her into a swing and sing songs.

  11. Names A child is named on the seventh or twelfth day after its birth, the name being chosen by the Mohturia or caste headman.

  12. The pickaxe was also worshipped on every seventh day during an expedition, and it was believed that the sound made by it in digging a grave was never heard by any one but a Thug.

  13. The seventh and ninth kings of this dynasty rendered it famous.

  14. The Kuramwars are considered to be the modern representatives of the ancient Pallava tribe whose kings were powerful in southern India in the seventh century.

  15. On the seventh day of the wedding the husband and wife go to the river and bathe, throwing away the sacred threads worn at the time of marriage, and also those which have been tied round their wrists.

  16. A similar ceremony called Boha Jewan is sometimes performed in the seventh or eighth month, when a new sari is given to her and grain is thrown into her lap.

  17. Two more three-volume editions disappeared during May, and a seventh and last during June.

  18. Colonel Forde advancing to the neighbourhood of Masulipatam, the marquis de Conflans with his forces retired within the place, which on the seventh day of March was invested.

  19. The mareschal having sent away part of his baggage from Bielefeldt on the sixth, went in person on the seventh at eleven o'clock to Horn, and on the eighth to Braket.

  20. The bridges were built, the cannon planted, and the intrenchments at the head of the bridges completed in the night between the seventh and eighth.

  21. By the fourth he raised the value of the current coin; and in the fifth he summoned a parliament to meet on the seventh day of May, at Dublin.

  22. On the seventh day of July, the king embarked at Gravesend, landed on the ninth in Holland, through which he passed incognito to Hanover, and from thence set out for Pyrmont.

  23. On the seventh day of March, James embarked at Brest, together with the count D'Avaux, who accompanied him in quality of ambassador, and his principal officers.

  24. On the twenty-seventh the English and Scots, lander Ramsay and Hamilton, assaulted the counterscarp, where they met with prodigious opposition from the fire of the besieged.

  25. France having consented to deliver up Dunkirk, a body of troops was transported from England under the command of brigadier Hill, who took possession of the place on the seventh day of July; the French garrison retired to Winoxberg.

  26. Then the duke invested Huy, the garrison of which, after a vigorous defence, surrendered themselves prisoners of war on the twenty-seventh day of August.

  27. Printed in the seventh of this series of Letters.

  28. The substance of most of these "pieces" are embodied in Paine's Seventh Letter to the People of the United States (infra p.

  29. On the third day of the seventh month, for the murder of Godolias, Jer.

  30. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

  31. It takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month, and on this occasion it was customary to place freshly cut bamboos either on the roofs of houses or to fix them in the ground close beside them.

  32. On the seventh night of the vigil Baishu heard a voice calling for admittance at the main gateway of the temple grounds.

  33. The seventh cup--ah, but I could take no more!

  34. On the seventh month, when the moon was full, the Lady Kaguya's sorrow increased so that her weeping distressed the maidens who served her.

  35. In the seventh century the Japanese adopted these banners; but as time went on they dropped many of the quaint astrological designs so dear to the heart of the Chinese.

  36. On the seventh night of the seventh month, provided the weather was favourable, a great company of birds formed a bridge across the river, and by this means the lovers were able to meet.

  37. At length, as years went by, the peasant found himself in a more prosperous position, and when a seventh child was born, a boy, he was much gratified and loved him dearly.

  38. Having thus prayed, he promised to perform a seven days' religious service, and to devote the seventh night in ceaseless worship before the sacred shrine of Benten, in the grounds of the Amadera.

  39. He was told to feed the ghosts of the great priests of all countries "on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.

  40. The reduction in numbers of pupils in the sixth and seventh grades is due in large part to the fact that so many pass from the fifth grade into the middle school.

  41. While the secondary school men claim perfect right to choose the fittest for entrance into their schools, the primary school men feel that their work in the sixth and seventh grades suffers injustice as a result of this selective process.

  42. By an act of 1895, however, incurable insanity was admitted as a seventh cause of full divorce.

  43. The offender divorced for the seventh cause may not rewed in five years; and he must have been a resident of the state for the same period.

  44. This book, and the next following, take up the space of one night, which is the twenty-seventh from the beginning of the poem.

  45. The same day continues through this, as through the last book; as it does also through the two following, and almost to the end of the seventh book.

  46. In the published copy of this sonnet he made an alteration in the seventh line:-- "Yet did I never breathe its pure serene.

  47. In New York, you have to be certain you are on the uptown or downtown side, and that you have not mistaken the Broadway line, where you drop the money in the box, for the Seventh Avenue line, where you buy tickets.

  48. As this tree is described by a Chinese pilgrim of the seventh century, it is either of remarkable antiquity or has been renewed from time to time.

  49. I saw two cases of sun-stroke yesterday, one in Pennsylvania avenue, and another in Seventh street.

  50. I walk'd up Pennsylvania avenue, and then to Seventh street, and a long while around the Patent-office.

  51. Through the past winter, while our army lay opposite Fredericksburg, the like strings of ambulances were of frequent occurrence along Seventh street, passing slowly up from the steamboat wharf, with loads from Aquia creek.

  52. Have been taking a walk along Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street north.

  53. The captain was fifty-five years of age, took up the colonial cause at the start, raised the Seventh Independent Company of Maryland troops, and was among the earliest to fall in Stirling's line.

  54. In every land, every class ignored the seventh commandment, because it was taught and believed that all offenses of this character were condoned by the Virgin.

  55. He evidently supposed that the night preceding their visit to the tomb belonged to the seventh day, whereas it belonged to the first day.

  56. This is esteemed the "Gem of the Prophecies," and may be found in the seventh chapter of Isaiah.

  57. The thirty-seventh year from this battle comprehended the time elapsing between September 2, A.

  58. The connection of the close of the first part with the repetition of this and the beginning of the second part by means of the chord of the dominant seventh in A flat and that in D flat with the suspended sixth, is noteworthy.

  59. The soloist starts in the eighty-seventh bar, and in the following commences a cadenza.

  60. But the seventh letter is somewhat of a puzzle.

  61. In this letter occurs a passage which is important for the dating both of the fifth and the seventh letter.

  62. What decides me especially to reject the date 1839 for the seventh letter is that Pauline Garcia had then not yet become the wife of Louis Viardot.

  63. The triad of the tonic and the chord of the dominant seventh divide every bar between them in a brotherly manner.

  64. I have some doubt about the seventh letter, which, read by the light of George Sand's letter, ought perhaps to be placed after the ninth.

  65. The melodic progression, not always immediate, of an augmented fourth and major seventh occurs frequently, and that of an augmented second occasionally.

  66. The little clock on her writing-table strikes twelve; the sixth of January is past, the seventh of January has begun.

  67. He stated his age to be upwards of fifty, though we know that, if born in 1547, he must in fact have nearly, or quite completed his fifty-seventh year at this time.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    degree; diapason; fifth; fourth; halftone; interval; note; octave; rapture; second; seventh; sixth; step; third; tone


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    seventh century; seventh daughter; seventh year