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Example sentences for "sixth"

Lexicographically close words:
sixt; sixteen; sixteene; sixteenth; sixteenths; sixths; sixtie; sixties; sixtieth; sixty
  1. On the forty-sixth ballot Wilson was nominated.

  2. This perception was corroborated a moment later by his producing a copy of a medical magazine, with a remark that on the sixth page I would find a full statement of his case.

  3. The ground that my morning rambles cover extends from Twenty-third Street to Washington Park, and laterally from Sixth Avenue to Broadway.

  4. It was not much more than a stone's-throw from the theater to the rabbit warren in West Forty-sixth Street, but Martin gave a shout at a prowling taxi.

  5. The rather pretentious but extremely civilized house that stood alone in all its glory between the sea and the sixth hole was blazing with lights as they returned to it.

  6. The little half-plucked bird of the Forty-sixth Street garret with the pale thin face and the large tired eyes had almost become the fairy of Joan's hill once more, the sun-tanned little brother of Peter Pan again.

  7. Look for a row of women's ugly wooden heads painted by some one suffering from delirium tremens," said Miss Susie Capper as they turned down West Forty-sixth Street.

  8. Few people would have recognized in this spring maid the Tootles of Broadway and that rabbit warren in West Forty-sixth Street.

  9. At top speed he ran into Sixth Avenue, yelled to a cab that was slipping along the trolley lines and told the driver to go to East Sixty-seventh Street for all that he was worth.

  10. Martin was spoken to by the girl that lived in the rabbit warren in West Forty-sixth Street in the rooms below those of Tootles.

  11. This is the fifty-sixth day since I came to the conclusion to build, and the fifty-fifth since I have been day by day waiting upon God concerning it.

  12. These day schools have defrayed, by the payments of the children, about the sixth part of their own expenses.

  13. On the thirty-sixth day after having begun to pray, Dec.

  14. The commandment to them was, to leave their land uncultivated in the seventh year, in order that it might rest, and the Lord promised to make up for this deficiency by his abundant blessing resting upon the sixth year.

  15. This is now the sixth week that the laborers in the day schools and Orphan Houses have daily met for prayer.

  16. To-day, in dependence upon the Lord alone for means, we engaged a brother as a master for a sixth day school.

  17. We are now brought to the close of the sixth year of this part of the work, having only in hand the money which has been put by for the rent; but during the whole of this year we have been supplied with all that was needed.

  18. And now Camillus, being called to his sixth tribuneship, desired to be excused, as being aged, and perhaps not unfearful of the malice of fortune, and those reverses which seem to ensue upon great prosperity.

  19. Having thus performed his devotion, he went to sea, the sixth day of Munychion, on which day even to this time the Athenians send their virgins to the same temple to make supplication to the gods.

  20. Caesar died in his fifty-sixth year, not having survived Pompey above four years.

  21. These were the most memorable actions of his sixth tribuneship.

  22. Alexander was born on the sixth of Hecatombaeon, the same day that the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burnt.

  23. Two of the dwellers upon Mars were looking at and had understood me, by virtue of that sixth sense of magnetic perception to which I before alluded.

  24. This secular displacement of the line of the apsides brings a sixth complication to the motion of our abiding-place.

  25. The front foot was examined closely in the field, but it could not be determined how or where the extra bones of the sixth toe articulated.

  26. There was not a statistically significant difference, for either species, between the average amounts of water drunk in the first and in the sixth weeks of the experiment.

  27. When the entertainment was over and all expenses were paid, two hundred and twenty francs remained for the orphans of the Sixth Ward.

  28. The entertainment was for the benefit of the orphans of the Sixth Ward under the patronage of all the wiles of the senators and deputies who were connected with "La Vie Francaise.

  29. Not remember Georges Duroy of the Sixth Hussars.

  30. Ben went up a steep and narrow staircase, and kept mounting up until he reached the sixth floor.

  31. For several days the Maoris would come no nearer, but on the sixth they paddled out with seven canoes and surrounded both vessels.

  32. In their emergency, the Ministry applied to the banks for a loan of money; five of them refused, but the sixth agreed to lend forty thousand pounds.

  33. My father said it was because the Captain had been sixth wrangler, and that it was the higher mathematics which made him so clever at making rules.

  34. They emerged into the species of plaza formed by the numbered street which constitutes the southern extremity of the park and the termination of the Sixth Avenue.

  35. Summer prune in July, pinching or cutting new growths back to the sixth leaf, reducing these in autumn to two or three eyes, but leaving fruit buds untouched.

  36. The shoots must be pinched if the trees are of any age, at the fifth or sixth leaf.

  37. Stop new side shoots at the sixth leaf to produce fruit-buds.

  38. From my doleful prison in the Tower, this sixth of May.

  39. The Rinzo was an invention of a Chinese priest, and is said to date from the sixth century.

  40. Captain Standart had a very narrow escape, as one of the Thirty sixth Indiana was killed at his side.

  41. He, with the advance, consisting of some cavalry and the Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, proceeded on some distance beyond Wild Cat, and on the road to London.

  42. After the birth of her sixth child she sank so rapidly that it was plain there was no hope of her recovery.

  43. On the thirty-sixth ballot there appeared this day ten States for Thomas Jefferson, four (New England) for A.

  44. He was at this time in his sixty-sixth year.

  45. By time-honored custom, four or five of the Sixth were invited every week to dine with the head master.

  46. Xenophanes lived in the latter part of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries B.

  47. If we take Xenophanes at his word we must describe him as an atheist, and atheism in the sixth century B.

  48. And I must candidly confess that if I were asked whether, in my heart of hearts, I believed that a Greek of the sixth century B.

  49. The art of writing was, however, known to the Romans as early as the sixth century B.

  50. Only about one third of this is preserved in a fragmentary condition, and for many centuries the entire work was lost with the exception of the Dream of Scipio (Somnium Scipionis), from the sixth book.

  51. If, as is probable, a sixth book once existed, the whole work contained about five thousand lines.

  52. In the sixth book they reach Cumae, in Italy.

  53. The dactylic hexameter consists of six feet, each of which is either a dactyl or a spondee, though the sixth is always a spondee and the fifth almost always a dactyl.

  54. Elegiac verse had been employed in the seventh and sixth centuries B.

  55. The most interesting single theme is the sixth Suasoria, in which the question is answered whether Cicero should beg Antony to spare his life.

  56. His greatest claim to remembrance is his friendship for Virgil, who expressed his gratitude to him in the sixth and tenth Eclogues, and, perhaps, in the original ending of the Georgics.

  57. The elegiac distich consists of an hexameter followed by a so-called pentameter, that is, a line made up of six dactyls or spondees, with the omission of the last half of the third and of the sixth feet.

  58. The sixth ode, addressed to Apollo, seems to be a prooemium to the Carmen Saeculare, or at any rate to have some connection with the ludi saeculares.

  59. But once in a while it has been my luck to meet among old soldiers the twenty-seven hundred and forty-sixth man who can tell a story well.

  60. The sixth crossing I fell behind; it was all I could do, and at its close I crept out on the bank and lay down.

  61. We left after the sixth race, while the band played with as much vim as if for the first--"God save the Queen!

  62. The most important game of the New England series, next to the final championship contest, was played at Brookline, Friday, to determine whether Brookline High or Newtown High should be the sixth member of the Senior League.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    degree; diapason; fifth; fourth; halftone; interval; note; octave; second; seventh; sixth; step; third; tithe; tone


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sixth century; sixth chapter; sixth dynasty; sixth part; sixth year