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Example sentences for "sixtieth"

Lexicographically close words:
sixteenths; sixth; sixths; sixtie; sixties; sixty; siya; sizable; sizar; sizars
  1. No man, in my youth, would have believed I should live to my sixtieth year, untitled and obscure.

  2. To carry out the terms of the will, which are as follows: namely, to turn over to you, but without power of conveyance, the paternal domicile on West Sixtieth Street with all its contents.

  3. It was a clear October day, and, quite unconscious of the distance, Don continued up the Avenue to Sixtieth Street--to the house where he was born.

  4. Before passing his sixtieth year Lemaitre turned over a new leaf.

  5. But careful watching and nursing warded off the enemy; and on her sixtieth birthday, October 14th, the doctors pronounced her out of danger.

  6. After ten years service they are entitled to a pension of twenty-sixtieths of their pay, with an increase of one-sixtieth for each further year of service.

  7. In the spring of 1859 the Fathers rented a frame house on Sixtieth Street, just west of Broadway, fitted up a little chapel in it, and lived there in community till the new house was finished.

  8. Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.

  9. Defn: The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

  10. Note: Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.

  11. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds.

  12. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

  13. Mun still used his eloquence in its defence, but the brilliant Catholic orator had entered his sixtieth year with health impaired, and among the young reactionary members there was not one who displayed any talent.

  14. Otherwise they can add one-sixtieth of their annual salary to their pension for every additional year's service up to thirty-five years' service.

  15. Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.

  16. In allusion to the increased fatigue which this competition with The Duenna brought upon Garrick, who was then entering on his sixtieth year, it was said, by an actor of the day, that "the old woman would be the death of the old man.

  17. His arrival is stated in the Chronicum Scotorum to have taken place "in the sixtieth year of the age of Abraham.

  18. He arranged a feast for his sixtieth birthday, and all the great people of the colony were at his table.

  19. The degrees are further divided into minutes and seconds, each minute being a sixtieth of a degree and each second, naturally, the sixtieth of a minute.

  20. A sixtieth part of the Union, which is about the proportion of Delaware and Rhode Island, has several times been able to oppose an entire bar to its operations.

  21. The concert at Memphis was the sixtieth in the list since Miss Lind’s arrival in America, and the first concert in St. Louis would be the sixty-first.

  22. The omission of the break at the sixtieth second, made the mark of double length, and hence the beginning of the minute was easily recognized.

  23. The first observer exactly at the sixtieth second by his chronometer pressed his key quickly and firmly and repeated this operation at every fifth second for one minute.


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