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Example sentences for "penultimate"

Lexicographically close words:
pented; penthouse; penthouses; pentoxide; penult; penumbra; penumbral; penurious; penury; penwiper
  1. The genital ducts may be the coelomoducts of the penultimate or ante-penultimate or adjacent somite, or of a somite placed near the middle of the series, or of a somite far forward in the series.

  2. The genital ducts open on the penultimate somite.

  3. The genital ducts are formed by the enlargement of the coelomoducts of the penultimate somite.

  4. Defn: The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.

  5. Defn: Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

  6. Defn: A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

  7. Usually the web extends to some point on the antepenultimate phalanx of the fourth toe, but in some specimens the web extends to the base of the penultimate phalanx.

  8. Tarsal fold strong; thoracic fold heavy; webbing on feet extending to middle of penultimate phalanx of fourth toe; distinct white stripe above anus; cluster of largo spines on thumb in breeding males, H.

  9. He became famous, and critics did not note the false quantity which the Cambridge man gave to the penultimate of Salome.

  10. He was dandling a new baby in the air and trying not to step on the penultimate child, who was treating one of his legs as a tree.

  11. The car was all but empty when the conductor called to a drowsy old lady, his penultimate passenger: "Hunneran Semty-seckin!

  12. The penultimate section, in which the Muellerian duct is seen.

  13. Penultimate section, in which the Muellerian duct is visible; it is separated by three sections from No.

  14. How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.

  15. With sure insight she discerned the special quality of the poetic wealth of the "Bells and Pomegranates," among which she then and always cared most for the penultimate volume, the "Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.

  16. And it must not be quite forgotten, that on the roll-call of legitimacy Penultimate Soojah did not stand next for promotion.

  17. Meanwhile, the penultimate cat had begun the same evolution, and then the ante-penultimate cat, until all the cats had cleared the front one and had taken their positions on their stands.

  18. Spines on each apical angle of the penultimate abdominal segment.

  19. The bristle on the penultimate segment of the legs arises from near the middle; no suture between the cephalothorax and abdomen.

  20. The bristle on the penultimate segment of the legs arise from near the tip; a suture between cephalothorax and abdomen.

  21. The penultimate abdominal segment has four long hollow outgrowths, which contain blood, and have the function of gills, while the hindmost segment has four shorter outgrowths of the same nature.

  22. The penultimate instar is quiescent and does not feed.

  23. The penultimate instar of this sex in which the wing-rudiments are visible externally lies passively beneath the scale, its behaviour resembling that of a butterfly pupa.

  24. In all Ametabola and Hemimetabola these are visible externally long before the penultimate instar has been reached; in the Holometabola they are not seen until the pupal stage.

  25. Examples have been given of the exceptional passive condition of the penultimate instar in Exopterygota.

  26. The sensitiveness dies away as the caterpillar grows older, since little or no change of hue in response to a change of environment could be induced after the penultimate moult.

  27. Having been formed beneath the cuticle of the wing-rudiments of the penultimate instar, the wings are necessarily abbreviated and crumpled.

  28. The penultimate phalanges of the fingers are not included in the webbing.

  29. In the holotype of cabrerai the webbing extends to the middle of the penultimate phalanges of the third and fourth fingers and to the base of the disc of the second finger.

  30. The webbing on the hand usually excludes the penultimate phalanges of the fingers, but in some specimens from Amazonian Ecuador the webbing encompasses the proximal parts of the penultimate phalanges of the fingers.

  31. In a few of these specimens, the holotype of festae, and one paratype of cabrerai the webbing extends to the middle of the penultimate phalanges of the third and fourth fingers.

  32. Capitalism is a survival of the penultimate stage of political development, as war is a survival of the penultimate stage of morality.

  33. The moral sphere has already extended or is at least in course of extension to its ultimate limits: and war is a survival from the penultimate stage of morality.

  34. Direction of the lighted taper by which it was illuminated shown by a line joining the first and penultimate dots.

  35. We next find one corner of the broad penultimate segment slightly prominent, sometimes furnished with irregular teeth, and against these the terminal segment shuts down.

  36. The climax of the piece comes at the end of the penultimate act, when Hedda casts into the fire the manuscript of the book into which Eilert has put the great work of his life.

  37. The penultimate bilobed joint of ditto, with the arthrium separated from the claw-joint.

  38. Webbing on the foot extends to the discs of the third and fifth toes and to the base of the penultimate phalanx of the fourth toe, except in P.

  39. The observations in the preceding note apply to Miss Guiney's supposition that 'that' in the penultimate line is a misprint for 'though'.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penultimate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.