Use twentieth in a sentence
Sentences ending with twentieth
- After that, I was just as much at home in that century as I could have been in any other; and as for preference, I wouldn't have traded it for the twentieth. [5]
More example sentences with the word twentieth in them
- It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
- Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
- All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
- They were frequently under fire --when they brought back the wounded or fetched car-loads of munitions to the great guns on the ridiculous little trains of flat cars with open-work wheels, which they named--with American humour--the Federal Express and the Twentieth Century Limited. [9]
- Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
- Opened of itself to the one hundred and twentieth page. [6]
- He belonged to the Twentieth Massachusetts; the Lieutenant saw that he was a Captain, by the two bars on his shoulder-strap. [6]
- And this was the twentieth century! [9]
- The Bishop was still requiring an unmodified oath, Joan was refusing for the twentieth time to take any except the one which she had herself proposed. [5]
- At the United States Hotel, where many were lying, I heard mention of an officer in an upper chamber, and, going there, found Lieutenant Abbott, of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, lying ill with what looked like typhoid fever. [6]
- While there, who should come in but the almost ubiquitous Lieutenant Wilkins, of the same Twentieth, whom I had met repeatedly before on errands of kindness or duty, and who was just from the battle-ground. [6]
- You have unwittingly revealed--oh, for the twentieth time, though I could not believe it, would not believe it!--that it is not me you love, but that foolish sham my father's imitation earldom; and you have broken my heart! [5]
- The Man of Power of the beginning of the twentieth century demands a subtler analysis, presents an enigma to which the immortal portraits of forgotten Medicis and Capets give no clew. [9]
- On the morning of the twentieth, Captain Scott took Lottie on to his horse. [5]
- At the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps. [11]
- On the twentieth of October Mastricht fell into the Spaniards' hands, and was cruelly pillaged. [10]
- St. Peter's did not look nearly so large as the capitol, and certainly not a twentieth part as beautiful, from the outside. [5]
- What these did not grasp was the fact that that which they felt stirring within them was the new and spiritual product of the dawning twentieth century--the Social Conscience. [9]
- It was the morning of the twentieth day. [5]
- On the twentieth line of the fifty-fifth page begins the book on the eyes, which fills eight large pages. [10]
- The twentieth of June saw the last vestige of Louis's power pass for ever. [11]
- The nineteenth century is not likely to add to them; we must wait for the twentieth century. [6]
- It was so in Old Bible times and in all other times--Greek, Roman, Middle Ages and Twentieth Century. [5]
- And she stared, in a kind of fascination that increased the ache in her heart; at the ugliness and cruelty of the twentieth century. [9]
- Shorter would have had a title and a salon in the Faubourg: in the twentieth, she was the wife of a most fashionable and successful real estate agent in New York, and was aware of no incongruity. [9]
- I had to get it across to him there was a lot of dead wood in this plant, I had to wake him up to the fact that the twentieth century was here. [9]
- He was now fully grown, and when he entered his twentieth year, was taller than most Castilians, and carried his head as high as a grandee. [10]
- As the two friends walked on the lawn, Mr. Worthington tried to explain, likewise for the twentieth time, that the extension of the Truro Railroad could in no way lessen the Canadian traffic of the Central, Mr. Duncan's road. [9]
- Its good and evil impulses and their consequences are the same today that they were in Old Bible times, in Egyptian times, in Greek times, in Middle Age times, in Twentieth Century times. [5]
- Signs of the disintegration of the old social strata were not lacking, indeed, in the earlier years of the twentieth century, when labour members and north-country radicals began to invade parliament; but the cataclysm of this war has accelerated the process. [9]
- On the twentieth day homeward, Hume said with his hand on the dog's head "It had to be done, Bouche; even a dog could see that. [11]
- On the twentieth day after leaving Quebec they sighted islands, and simultaneously they saw five ships bearing away towards them. [11]
- Done at the city of Washington, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. [7]
- Done at the city of Washington, this twentieth day of April, A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. [7]
- Of the Twentieth Century, industrial democracy is the watchword, even as political democracy was the watchword of the two centuries that preceded it. [9]
- One of the burning and unsolved questions of to-day is,--will it survive the twentieth century? [9]
- 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. [2]
- In January, February and March, the Nile is still drying up; and in May is at its lowest point, when the volume of its waters is only one- twentieth of that in October. [10]
- The shores of America faded behind us, and as the days went by, we had the odd sense of threading uncharted seas; we found it more and more difficult to believe that this empty, lonesome ocean was the Atlantic in the twentieth century. [9]
- The arrival of a novel, play, or treatise by one of that small but growing nucleus of twentieth century seers was an event, and often a volume begun in the afternoon was taken up again after supper. [9]
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