SEVENTH in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for SEVENTH, such as:

1. It has just entered the seventh edition.
2. The child was in his seventh heaven with his new toys.
3. He forgot what the seventh virtue was and could not recall it.
4. Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.
5. A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEVENTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seventh
 n.  the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
 a.  coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  He forgot what the seventh virtue was and could not recall it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
2  Alpatych, understanding the question to refer to their departure for Bogucharovo, replied that they had left on the seventh and again went into details concerning the estate management, asking for instructions.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
3  Like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
4  But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
5  The French evacuation began on the night between the sixth and seventh of October: kitchens and sheds were dismantled, carts loaded, and troops and baggage trains started.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
6  In the seventh week, there came a telegram from Colonel Hampton himself, and then a letter, a kind, dignified letter of condolence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
8  But the Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
9  Then, for the seventh time in succession, they both looked out of the window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
10  Early on the seventh morning after he had left his native place, Oliver limped slowly into the little town of Barnet.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  On the seventh, he returned earlier, and with an exultation he could not conceal.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable regularity from month to month.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
13  That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on the parapet of the River des Gobelins.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
14  So she tried all the little beds; but one was too long, and another was too short, till at last the seventh suited her: and there she laid herself down and went to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOWDROP
15  I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
Example Sentence:
1  The child was in his seventh heaven with his new toys.
2  It has just entered the seventh edition.
3  A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.
4  Greg stared down from the seventh floor and began to feel giddy.