EIGHTEEN in a Sentence

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1. At least eighteen bullets were fired.
2. Counting servants, eighteen in family.
3. The product of six and three is eighteen.
4. She works from ten to eighteen hours a day.
5. The age of majority in Romania is eighteen.

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 Meanings and Examples of EIGHTEEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eighteen
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
 a.  being one more than seventeen
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Looking down on this very scene, there stood upon the fourth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, a solitary traveller.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Counting servants, eighteen in family.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they were eighteen.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  He had said enough to shake the experience of eighteen.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  She could not, though only eighteen, suppose Mr. Crawford's attachment would hold out for ever; she could not but imagine that steady, unceasing discouragement from herself would put an end to it in time.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  He had left her, when only eighteen; robbed her of jewels and money; gambled, squandered, forged, and fled to London: where for two years he had associated with the lowest outcasts.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
9  McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
11  The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
12  Nursed her as a baby, and came with her to England when they first left Australia, eighteen months ago.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
13  The distance, I had reckoned, was seven or eight miles, but it must have been nearer eighteen.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  This ungallant statement sent her flying to the mirror to see if she really did look twenty-eight instead of eighteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  She works from ten to eighteen hours a day.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.
2  He is already eighteen years old and is capacitated to vote.
3  After the Second World War the franchise was extended to all adults over eighteen.
4  The couple eventually wed after an eighteen year engagement.
5  He was a kid really, not more than eighteen or nineteen.
6  At least eighteen bullets were fired.
7  The age of majority in Romania is eighteen.
8  The product of six and three is eighteen.
9  The ages of the students of our class range from fifteen to eighteen.
10  Six yards is commensurate with eighteen feet.
11  In earlier part of the 19th centuries, a sloop of war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck that carried anything up to eighteen cannon.
12  At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.