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Example sentences for "twentieth"

Lexicographically close words:
twen; twene; twenti; twentie; twenties; twentieths; twentith; twenty; twentye; twentyeight
  1. These reflections in a time of broken friendships and violated treaties are not calculated to fill the man of the twentieth century with any justifiable pride.

  2. He found the Spanish Plate fleet guarded by galleons in the strongly-armed harbour of Santa Cruz; and on the twentieth of April he forced an entrance into the harbour and burnt or sank every ship within it.

  3. There shines upon the twentieth shield, Among branches, a rose, so gay; Wherever Sir Nordman comes in war, He bears bright honour away.

  4. Forth comes the two-and-twentieth shield, A sun mid mist and smoke; Of wrestler line full many a spine Has Asborn Milday broke.

  5. Now comes the four-and-twentieth shield, And a bright sword there you see; And that by Humble Sir Jerfing is borne; Full worthy of that is he.

  6. Wherever Sir Nordman comes in war He winneth fame in field; Yon blooming rose and verdant boughs Adorn the twentieth shield.

  7. In the fourth section we come to "Aeroplanes and Dirigibles in the Twentieth Century.

  8. Perhaps he marks the irremediable decadence of this style which the twentieth century will replace by one more supple and more precise.

  9. Under the twentieth and twenty-first dynasties the writing of copies of the Book of the Dead in hieroglyphs went out of fashion, and copies written in the hieratic, or cursive, character took their place.

  10. Footnote 1: Otherwise known as Rameses IX, a king of the twentieth dynasty.

  11. It is a far cry from the twentieth century to the early dawn of history, and none but the Eye which runs to and fro throughout the whole earth can trace the entire course of woman's ascendency from degradation to exaltation.

  12. In the fourth Fragment of the twentieth book, Lucilius mentions the Calpurnian Law.

  13. And yet Catullus and Propertius, not to mention many others, attained great eminence as poets at a very early age; certainly long before their twentieth year.

  14. Lady Diana Vere, daughter, and at length sole heir, of Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last Earl of Oxford.

  15. Of this innumerable multitude composing the privileged order scarcely a twentieth part of it can really pretend to nobility of an immemorial and ancient date.

  16. Consult the official statement of the provincial assemblies, and especially the chapters treating of the vingtièmes (an old tax of one-twentieth on incomes.

  17. It was necessary to bring home to some people that this is the twentieth century, not the nineteenth, and I think I've done it.

  18. He got as far as wishing that Sissie might grow into an old maid, solely that he might be spared the wearing complications incident to the ceremony of marriage as practised by intelligent persons in the twentieth century.

  19. I'm afraid that you must have forgotten to alter your date calendar when the twentieth century started.

  20. He admitted, what he had always secretly known, that she was an elementary creature; she would have been just as at home in the Stone Age as in the twentieth century--and perhaps more at home.

  21. We sailed from Archangel the twentieth of August the same year; and, after no extraordinary bad voyage, arrived in the Elbe the thirteenth of September.

  22. From this day to the twentieth I placed shelves, and knocked up nails on the posts to hang every thing up that could be hung up: and now I began to be in some order within doors.

  23. And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king.

  24. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

  25. And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  26. And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

  27. At the dawn of the twentieth century there is no class and no power of the state that is strong enough to retard the natural evolution of society.

  28. Standing at the beginning of the twentieth century, we can see this struggle approaching its last stages in which the new ideas will be victorious.

  29. That cleanliness, air and light are as necessary to animals as to human beings and have a favorable influence on their condition, is a fact known but little among peasants of the twentieth century.

  30. It is merely ornamental in character, but it is characteristic of the spirit still prevailing in Germany at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  31. The text matter of the early Arithmetics, while not as gruesome as that of the Readers, was in many respects so peculiar as to be quite beyond the understanding of the twentieth century teacher.

  32. It was on the twentieth day of August when Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, one of the Council, died, and then Master Wingfield forgot all else save his own safety.

  33. Michaelson, almost a physical weakling but possessed of one of the keenest minds of the Twentieth Century; Guru, a splendidly muscled giant but almost a child mentally.

  34. The Wright brothers invented the lighter-than-air ship early in the twentieth century," he said.

  35. It was obviously some kind of vapor different from any known in the far-off Twentieth Century but equally obviously it was devilishly effective.

  36. The same encouragement is given in Peru to the discovery and working of new gold mines; and in gold the king's tax amounts only to a twentieth part of the standard rental.

  37. The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only.

  38. In 1720, interest was reduced from the twentieth to the fiftieth penny, or from five to two per cent.

  39. This twentieth part seems to be the whole rent which is paid by the greater part of the gold mines of Chili and Peru.

  40. The tax of the king of Spain upon gold is only one-twentieth part of the standard metal, or five per cent.

  41. The vicesima hereditatum, or the twentieth penny of inheritances, imposed by Augustus upon the ancient Romans, was a tax upon the transference of property from the dead to the living.

  42. It was soon reduced, therefore, to a third; then to a fifth; afterwards to a tenth; and at last to a twentieth part of the gross produce of the gold mines.

  43. In 1725, it was again raised to the twentieth penny, or to five per cent.

  44. Even this tax upon silver, too, gives more temptation to smuggling than the tax of one twentieth upon tin; and smuggling must be much easier in the precious than in the bulky commodity.

  45. But if you add one twentieth to one sixth, you will find that the whole average rent of the tin mines of Cornwall, was to the whole average rent of the silver mines of Peru, as thirteen to twelve.

  46. 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.

  47. 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.

  48. I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.

  49. I said that after going through much hardship and losing all his men he should come home again in the twentieth year and that no one would know him; and now all this is coming true.

  50. Not until some future time, when the events of the early twentieth century are better understood, will it be possible to judge accurately the value of President Roosevelt's regime in its relation to the control of railroads and corporations.

  51. Roosevelt's own share in the history of the early twentieth century was of such magnitude as to require a more extended account.

  52. The depression of the executive elevated the legislature and not until the beginning of the twentieth century did the scales swing back again toward their former position.

  53. The early twentieth century also saw progress on the subject of compensation for industrial accidents.

  54. Blaine accepted the party standards as they were; he belonged to the past, to the policies and political morality of war and reconstruction; Cleveland belonged to the transition from reconstruction to the twentieth century.

  55. The theory needs definition in some detail, because it forms the philosophy which underlies most of the political developments and much of the legislation of the early twentieth century.

  56. Suffrage for women was first granted by Wyoming in 1869 when its territorial government was organized, but the movement lagged thereafter until the early years of the twentieth century.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twentieth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    twentieth century; twentieth part