How could the delegates, he said, go home to their constituents, nineteen-twentieths of whom were negroes, after voting against their enjoying the same rights as the whites?
Stay laws were enacted to go into force with the adoption of the constitution, also exemption laws which exempted from sale for debt more property than nineteen-twentieths of the people possessed.
Thus was the cultivation of the potato extended in various ways, until it had become the principal food of nineteen-twentieths of the population long before the Famine of '47.
On a very moderate calculation, nineteen-twentieths of the present adult colored race are illegitimate.
In photographing the beat of a pigeon's wings he secured a complete cycle of motion in eighteen pictures, which, by reference to the chronoscope visible in the same field, shows that they were recorded in three-twentieths of a second.
Each of these is divided into two, thereby showing twentieths of a revolution, and these latter are further sub-divided into fifths, so that the dial is divided into one hundred parts.
If we {210} except those parts of the section that are contiguous to the Mississippi and Missouri, at least nineteen-twentieths of the country are completely destitute of a timber-growth.
The prairies here, as on the north of the Missouri, occupy at least nineteen-twentieths of the whole surface.
This beetle measures seven-twentieths of an inch in length.
Each pod contains from six to eight very large peas, which are of an ovate shape, half an inch long, seven-twentieths of an inch broad, and the same in thickness.
But the dress of nineteen twentieths of the inhabitants is merely a waist-cloth, which is kept in a most filthy condition.
The population of Porto Praya is said to amount to fifteen hundred or two thousand, nineteen twentieths of which are black or of doubtful origin.
First, because nineteen twentieths of the people who talk about the lazy Negro have no personal knowledge of the field hand at work.
Clearly, then, the twentieths did not produce anything like the theoretical eleven per cent.
An attempt was made to levy the twentieths on the various sorts of income.
Two twentieths and four sous in the livre of the first twentieth, or eleven per cent.
The liability to the twentieths was not joint but individual; so that when a deduction was made from the amount charged to one tax-payer, the sum demanded of the others was not increased.
In the army, the church, the law, and the administration of government, they furnish nineteen twentieths of the men employed, and these do all that is really onerous.
Recovery may be aided by giving cattle, hypodermically, daily doses of three-twentieths to four-twentieths of a grain of strychnin.
And nineteen-twentieths of us were also conscious of a high virtue, forgetting that it is not the making of Resolutions, but the keeping of them, which renders pardonable the consciousness of virtue.
Of this I am convinced, that nineteen-twentieths of us got out of bed that morning animated by that special feeling of gay and strenuous vivacity which Resolutions alone can produce.
At the present time, we know, the economic freedom of nineteen-twentieths of the English people has disappeared.
The body of the male is a little more than three-twentieths of an inch long, that of the female one-fifth of an inch or more, and the wings expand nearly or quite two-fifths of an inch.
It is yellowish white, and about three-twentieths of an inch long; the male has two recurved appendages at the tip of its hind body.
It robs society by the subtraction of its productive forces; taking off from productive labor nineteen-twentieths of the agents of trade who are mere parasites.
And the proof of this is, that if every one of all the workers were to become suddenly rich, nineteen-twentieths of all the work now done would be abandoned.
Nineteen twentieths of this legislature have no other transportation (turn-out) than galoshes and umbrellas.
This sect, the destruction of which was desired by nineteen-twentieths of France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twentieths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
