During the last session of Congress a treaty for the annexation of the Republic of San Domingo to the United States failed to receive the requisite two-thirds vote of the Senate.
The length of the femur, two-thirds of which represent the depth of the seat.
It was a large one, somewhat over seven hundred acres, inclusive of forest land, about two thirds being reclaimed upland swamp soil growing seaisland cotton.
Wings bare, if rarely with hair, then the radius reaches beyond two-thirds the length of the wing, or the femur or fifth tarsal segment with stout black spines.
Front margin of the wings with a patch of whitish and yellow scales at a point about two-thirds or three-fourths of the way from base to apex of wing.
The arrival of Howe, although his reinforcements did not raise the English fleet to over two thirds the strength of the French, upset D'Estaing's plans.
He is compelled to maintain the inviolability even of wicked sovereigns, and spends two-thirds of his treatise in supporting a proposition to state which is to refute it in the nineteenth century.
You stand here by the Thirds and I’ll go up to where the Firsts will stop,” began Catalina, but Over held her arm firmly within his.
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It held in its grasp a third of the territory, one-half of the revenue, and two-thirds of the capital of Europe.
The present deficit is not to be paid by us but by the bishops and beneficiaries; deprive the princes of the church of two-thirds of their revenues.
The total represents approximately two-thirds of the total labour occupied on Government work in industry.
It was moreover highly probable that, had they tried the game, they would not have even succeeded, in two-thirds of the constituencies, in inducing citizens of sufficient standing to accept their nomination and their political program.
The snow was two thirds of a foot deep where the men made their brush beds, and they had no protection from the weather but loose brush sheds.
My rejoinder was: "You will have to excuse me from entering upon that subject; I said I never would discuss it until they voted by a two-thirds majority to start the mills.
These works will never start until the men vote by a two-thirds majority to start them, and then, as I told you this morning, they will start on our sliding scale.
The slips, or cuttings, are set in April, two-thirds of the length in the soil, and in rows as directed for transplanting seedlings.
Root produced half above ground, nearly cylindrical for two-thirds its length, terminating rather bluntly, and often branched or deformed by small side-roots.
It retains its thickness for nearly two-thirds its length: but the surface is seldom regular or smooth; the genuine variety being generally characterized by numerous crosswise elevations, and corresponding depressions.
Cut them four or five inches in length, remove the lower leaves, and set them two-thirds of their length in the earth.
When the bulbs are two-thirds grown, they are earthed over for the purpose of blanching, and to render the flesh crisp and tender.
The cuttings should be planted two-thirds of their length deep, on a shady border, and, if necessary, watered until they take root.
Nearly two-thirds of the total population are directly or indirectly engaged in agriculture and kindred occupations.
He is about two thirds as big as Robber the Brown Rat, but though he is of the same general shape, so that you would know at once that he is related to Robber, he is in all other ways wholly unlike that outcast.
His coat is red and his waistcoat white; his tail is about two-thirds as long as his body and flat but not very broad.
He is a little fellow, bigger than the Kit Fox, but only about twothirds the size of Reddy Fox, and very beautiful.
Tub culture requires two-thirds filling of soil and covering with sand to have it the right depth.
A good rule to be observed is two-thirds water and one-third lilies.
In this loose and wandering existence they suffer the extremes of want; for two thirds of the year they are forced to live in the mountains, passing whole weeks without meat, and with nothing to eat but a few fish and roots.
The other or middle stream, has about two thirds its quantity of water, and is more gentle, and may be safely navigated.
These three thousand citizens were divided into three equal bodies, each of which should constitute a council for six months and no meeting was legal unless two-thirds of the members were present.
It was found that two thirds of the monks of England were living in concubinage; that their lands were wasted and mortgaged, and their houses falling into ruins.
Even at this speed the wheel has a circumferential velocity of two-thirds that of a bullet shot from a Lee-Metford rifle.
On the other hand, if the oxygen supply is inefficient, CO as well as CO2 will form, and there will be a heat loss, equal in extreme cases to two-thirds of the whole.
The most respectful and constitutional mode of performing our duty will be, to let it be entered on the minutes, and remain upon the files of the House until similar applications come to hand from two-thirds of the States.
That no standing army or regular troops shall be raised or kept up in time of peace, without the consent of two-thirds of the members present in both Houses.
Two-thirds of Port Royal were swallowed up by the sea, all the forts and fortifications demolished and great part of its inhabitants miserably knocked on the head or drowned.
The opportunity was eagerly welcomed by the planters, and the governor, not thinking it necessary to construe his orders from home too stringently, allowed two-thirds of the cargo to be sold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
