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Example sentences for "tenths"

Lexicographically close words:
tenter; tenterhooks; tentes; tenth; tenthe; tentin; tenting; tention; tentorium; tents
  1. For this reason I should like to take a trip to Kiev for the sake of the rest, although this city has lost nine-tenths of its charms for me now Toly does not live there.

  2. Nine-tenths of these hold that neither the Constitution nor the Union should be brought into question at all.

  3. The second travels a path more than seventeen billion miles in length, at the average rate of three and four-tenths miles a second.

  4. Its force of gravity is not quite nine-tenths that of the earth.

  5. On an average, it travels over about four-tenths of a degree in the heavens in one day.

  6. Its force of gravity is small for so large a body--only about nine-tenths that of the earth.

  7. The times of his equinoxes occur every fourteen and eight-tenths years, and he is then alternately in Leo and Aquarius and is least bright.

  8. It is slightly more dense than water, but only about two-tenths as dense as the earth.

  9. However, nine tenths of the wives had disappeared, and none had remarried.

  10. And grimly, doggedly, toward the end nine-tenths unconsciously, Lensman Conway Costigan stayed with it.

  11. Among hundreds of applications to me, at Paris, nine-tenths were Irish, whom I readily discovered.

  12. It would embroil me also with all those with whom his character is still popular, that is to say, nine tenths of the people of the United States; and what good would be obtained by avowing the letter with the necessary explanations?

  13. It provides that labourers able to satisfy certain conditions as to character may obtain from the state a loan equal to nine-tenths of the purchase money of the land they wish to acquire.

  14. In 1902 nine-tenths of the negroes in the state were disqualified from voting.

  15. It drains four-tenths of South America, and it gathers its waters from 5 deg.

  16. The remaining nine-tenths of alkali must be supplied from other sources, chiefly the ammonia-soda process.

  17. Four and seven-tenths per cent of the 20% named farmer; 2.

  18. Almost nine-tenths of its residents are either foreigners or the children of foreigners.

  19. Nine-tenths of the people would resent any attempt to interfere with England or her Allies.

  20. The time was ripe, indeed overripe, for a generous experiment, whereby seven tenths of the Irish people would have gained religious equality.

  21. They were relieved from paying tenths in the year they paid their first-fruits.

  22. The fact that nine-tenths of our modern legislation is drawn up by Government draughtsmen, cannot be accepted as proof that that legislation represents no popular feeling.

  23. First-fruits and tenths were described as an intolerable burden; but they were not abolished; they were merely transferred from the Pope to the King.

  24. It has even been calculated that four tenths of the area of the Ligurian provinces have been washed away or rendered incapable of cultivation by the felling of the woods.

  25. Below this was a tube two and five-tenths inches in diameter and twenty inches long.

  26. Frank went into the dining-room, and when he came back he said, "The barometer has risen two-tenths of an inch since we looked at it last.

  27. Nine-tenths of the people were Protestant.

  28. The "tenths and fifteenths" tax levied on income from movables or chattels became regular every year.

  29. The real source of energy in Sanatogen, then, lies in the casein which comprises about nine-tenths of its ingredients.

  30. The important fact is that casein makes up about nine-tenths of the preparation and, as must be perfectly evident, Sanatogen derives whatever food value it may have from that casein.

  31. Why, the spirit and brains would be drained out of nine-tenths of us trying to keep a roof over our heads, and nobody knowing we were there.

  32. It is ascertained to be the source of nine-tenths of all the pauperism, and nine-tenths of all the crimes in the land.

  33. In numerous places, where only a minority of the people abstained from the use of ardent spirit, nine-tenths of those who have of late professed the religion of Christ, have been from that minority.

  34. Nine-tenths of the crimes of the country, and of the expenses of litigation for crime, would be prevented by arresting it.

  35. Nine-tenths of those who died of the cholera in Poland were of the same class.

  36. After reviewing these complaints the Federal Commission held that two and four-tenths cents was a reasonable rate for interstate fares in this territory and required the railroads to remove the discrimination against St. Louis, Mo.

  37. The length of the thorax along the middle, is three-tenths of an inch, and its greatest breadth somewhat more.


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