NINETY in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for NINETY, such as:

1. You were driving at ninety miles an hour.
2. He was born in the nineties of the nineteen century.
3. Recession in the early nineties put a damper on growth.
4. When he reached ninety, the old man was proud of his longevity.
5. A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.

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 Meanings and Examples of NINETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ninety
 n.  the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
 a.  being ten more than eighty
Classic Sentence:
1  No, she could never care about anything again, not if she lived to be ninety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  "'Bout ninety, dey say," he gloomily muttered.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  Brother Dennis, the carpenter, built a new house with six rooms; Josie toiled a year in Nashville, and brought back ninety dollars to furnish the house and change it to a home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  A hundred and fifty barons commanded the labor of nearly six thousand Negroes, held sway over farms with ninety thousand acres tilled land, valued even in times of cheap soil at three millions of dollars.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  But the godly farmers hitched ninety yoke of oxen to the abolition schoolhouse and dragged it into the middle of the swamp.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
7  Morrel now tried to negotiate bills at ninety days only, and none of the banks would give him credit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
8  To attain such a point, the blood must be heated to thirty-six degrees, the pulse be, at least, at ninety, and the feelings excited beyond the ordinary limit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
9  A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
10  It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and a half.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
11  When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
12  For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
13  He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
Example Sentence:
1  Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
2  You were driving at ninety miles an hour.
3  At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
4  When he reached ninety, the old man was proud of his longevity.
5  A sudden renewed interest in action movies from the early nineties whose titles consist of three words, one of which is usually either “kill”, “law” or “justice”.
6  He was born in the nineties of the nineteen century.
7  In the late nineties the government realized that its complacence and feeling that the states talent and infrastructure would automatically make it a preferred destination was actually resulting in a large loss for the city.
8  Recession in the early nineties put a damper on growth.
9  At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.