TWENTIETH in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for TWENTIETH, such as:

1. Today is the twentieth of September.
2. will find on raising the twentieth ro.
3. That's the twentieth goal he's kicked this season.
4. This is a world history brought down to the end of the twentieth century.
5. lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWENTIETH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twentieth
 a.  coming next after the nineteenth in position
 n.  position 20 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1  was by the grace of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
2  They counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
3  Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
4  Today is the twentieth of September.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
5  I dare not clasp your knees, but I am in great distress; yesterday made the twentieth day that I had been tossing about upon the sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
6  Such as I am, it is I, who after long wandering and much hardship have got home in the twentieth year to my own country.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
7  I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXI
8  will find on raising the twentieth ro.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
9  lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
10  Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
11  The big storm of the winter began on my eleventh birthday, the twentieth of January.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
12  All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard 'giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  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.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  In the twentieth century, physicists have made their greatest discoveries about the characteristics of infinitesimal objects like the atom and its parts.
2  That's the twentieth goal he's kicked this season.
3  The twentieth century witnessed the rapid urbanization of the world's population.
4  This is a world history brought down to the end of the twentieth century.