NINTH in a Sentence

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1. Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.

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 Meanings and Examples of NINTH
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ninth
 a.  coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position
 n.  position nine in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1  ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
2  Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  "Well, never mind," answered Caderousse, pouring out a glass of wine for Fernand, and filling his own for the eighth or ninth time, while Danglars had merely sipped his.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
5  It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  From among all these parties, just at the time Prince Andrew reached the army, another, a ninth party, was being formed and was beginning to raise its voice.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  Tomaz Humar had spent nearly a week to huddle on a ledge six-thousand meters up Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain.
2  He paused in the ninth inning from his mass handcuffing of the Colorado Rockies lineup, to gaze around the ballpark and remember where he was, and what he was doing.
3  I always thought I was good at math until I had to give up helping Chelsea with her homework when she was in ninth grade; an illusion bites the dust.
4  This Wimbledon was serendipitous for the 30-year-old from Switzerland. Even the timing of the rain during Sunday's final, which required the closing of the now-notorious roof for the ninth time in the tournament, was ideal.