The mesial plane of the body passes through the pyloric portion of the stomach, so that, according to Luschka, five-sixths of the stomach lie to the left of this plane.
At least three-fourths of those attacked perish; according to some authorities fully five-sixths die.
Five- sixths of the British infantry had never been under fire.
Then, if we cut away the thread of the screw on every other sixth, we shall have three-sixths smooth and the other three-sixths with the screw-thread still standing out upon them.
In this zone there are no less than one hundred and sixty volcanoes, so that the two volcanic zones together contain five hundred and sixty, or five-sixths of all known.
Pare, remove the cores and all blemishes, and divide into sixths if large, into quarters if small.
Wash the pumpkin well on the outside, divide into quarters if small, into sixths or eighths if large; remove the seeds but not the rind.
The solution is filtered, five-sixths of the spirit is distilled from a water bath, and the cooled residue is reduced to the consistence of thin honey, with a mixture of 2 parts glycerin and 1 part spirit.
And, three or four days ago, he read a notice in a London paper, calling on creditors to come in for a dividend of five-sixths of a penny in the pound, in a case of bankruptcy pending since the year 1793.
Although less than half of the immigrants came from England, probably five-sixths spoke English and felt themselves drawn together not only by language, but by community of ideas and habits.
Now one sixth of mankind only are supposed to be Christians: the other five sixths then, who do not believe in the Jewish and Christian revelation, are without a knowledge of the existence of a God!
The spirit of republicanism is now in almost all its ancient vigor, five sixths of the people being with us.
From Helmholtz's analysis of sounds one would get the idea that the so-called tempered scale of our pianos caused thirds and sixths to sound discordantly.
This system, contrary to the old organum, consisted of using only thirds and sixths together, excluding the fourth and fifth entirely, except in the first and last bars.
Often heard in the concert room, this nocturne gives us a surfeit of sixths and thirds of elaborate ornamentation and monotone of mood.
The doublesixths and more complicated phraseology do not render the later superior to the early Mazurka, yet there is no gainsaying the fact that this is a noble composition.
He gives in the bravura-like cadenza, an alternate for small hands, but small hands should not touch this piece unless they can grapple the double sixths with ease.
In 1794 he sold his two-sixths of the mansion house, etc.
The taxes were assessed in the ratio of one-sixth on Valencia, two- sixths on Aragon, and three-sixths on Catalonia.
In this they have won increased success, at least five-sixths of the manufactured goods used being produced within the country, but a desire for further protection is loudly expressed.
He couldn't sing by himself any more than a crow, but he's got those sixths of his down to a hair.
The ancients considered thirds and sixths as dissonances; and, in fact, every chord except the perfect concord is a dissonant chord.
The other five-sixths of his time he's using his other senses working for a living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
