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How to use fifteenth in a sentence

30 example sentences · adjective, noun

Fifteenth means the ordinal form of the number fifteen. Example: “In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.”

More sentences with fifteenth

  • In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.From the entry ante litteram
  • This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.From the entry fabric
  • Until the fifteenth century, Koreans had a native word for the numeral "hundred", but it has since been replaced by a Sino-Korean word.From the entry Sino-Korean
  • By the fifteenth century, the vernal equinox fell in early April.2015, Brian A. Pavlac, “Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815”, in A Concise Survey of Western Civilization…. From the entry vernal
  • By the fifteenth century a yedding is glossed as a romance.2013, Marcelle Theibaux, The Writings of Medieval Women, 2nd Edition: An Anthology. From the entry yedding
  • No one's counting but it's the fifteenth time she's gotten it this week.1999, Beth Boucher, “Elusive Thing”. From the entry get it
  • Turkish suzerainty over the voivodates was established in the fifteenth century.1981, Bogdan Szajkowski, Marxist Governments: A World Survey, volume 3: Mozambique – Yugoslavia, page 591. From the entry voivodate
  • A thin wand is frequently bound against the pilgrim's bourdon in fifteenth century pictures.1926, James Charles Wall, Pilgrimage, page 27. From the entry bourdon
  • Lasting until the beginning of the fifteenth century, this epidemic carried over into the Jewish ghettos, where a Tanzhaus was found.2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 205. From the entry Tanzhaus
  • In countless rubrics from the fifteenth century, scribes indicate their confusion with indulgences through their mistakes and expunctuations.2016, Kathryn M. Rudy, Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts, page 46. From the entry expunctuation
  • Literary works of the fifteenth century showed a new regard for the cultural worth of motherhood and wifery.2015, Ross E. Dunn, Laura J. Mitchell, Panorama: A World History, volume 2 (from 1300), McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry wifery
  • The miniature takes on more picturely detail in the fifteenth century and the objects depicted become more differentiated.2013, Georges Vigarello, The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity, page 25. From the entry picturely
  • Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.2005, Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner, “The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy”, in Michael R.…. From the entry king's ransom
  • There are five scribes, all using variations on Secretary hands consistent with the third quarter of the fifteenth century.2004, “Introduction”, in Stephen H. A. Shepherd, editor, Turpines Story, page xvi. From the entry secretary hand
  • But as the fifteenth century progressed, the giovani, guilty of the same excesses, were vituperated in their turn.1997, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, “A Flower of Evil: Young Men in Medieval Italy”, in Camille Naish, transl., edited by Giovanni Levi and…. From the entry vituperate
  • Thereafter, it passed into the repertoire of the transalpine glasshouses and inspired the creation of the typical prunted roemer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.2017, David F Grose, The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry prunted
  • The position of groom of the stool originated in the fifteenth century, with the introduction of the close-stool, a stool holding a chamber pot.2015, “Grooms of the Stool”, in John Middleton, editor, World Monarchies and Dynasties, volume 2, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry groom of the stool
  • He examined the thing with delight, pronounced the caligraphy fifteenth century, and promised to write out the contents for me in decent Greek script.2007, John Buchan, The Dancing Floor, page 50. From the entry Mediæval Greek
  • On the fifteenth of that month, the Shigu District People’s Government of Hengyang decided to grant the title of revolutionary martyr to Ding.2002 August 9, Deng Fei, Wu Sanmeng, Chen Ying, “Missing the Martyr Mark”, in Beijing Today [今日北京], number 65, →ISSN, →OCLC, 声音 [shēngyīn…. From the entry Shigu
  • The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.1990, LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, page 91. From the entry orthodoxly
  • "Earnestly yours," "Expectantly yours," "Yours for the fifteenth," "Yours sellingly," and other complimentary closings like these have been used with good results.1920, John Baker Opdycke, The English of Commerce, page 224. From the entry sellingly
  • Records of extremely low water levels from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century, as well as warnings of their consequences, have been chiseled into these river boulders.2020, Valerie Trouet, “Winter is Coming”, in Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins…. From the entry hunger stone
  • He probably did most of his selling in the market place; in the fifteenth century there was a special fleshhouse set aside for the fleshers to sell their wares.2019, Alexander Grant, Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship & Community, page 165. From the entry fleshhouse
  • Caravels were much smaller than the largest European ships and the Chinese junks Zheng He had used to explore the Indian Ocean early in the fifteenth century.2008, Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, with David Northrup, “The Maritime…. From the entry caravel
  • For example, hops are now considered a staple beer ingredient, but their use was considered illegal by the Brewer’s Guild in England until the late fifteenth century.1996, Patrick Higgins, Maura Kate Kilgore, Paul Hertlein, “Introduction”, in The Homebrewer’s Recipe Guide: More than 175 Original Beer…. From the entry zymurgy
  • In the documents from the turn of the fifteenth century (not mentioning the earlier ones) from the royal or grandducal chancelleries, the term "servitur regius" appears very rarely.1986, World Union of Jewish Studies,, Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 4-12, 1985. From the entry grandducal
  • As it does each year, about the fifteenth of August, plants of the group called ambrosiae spread their pollens to the wind and the misery begins.1967 August 17, Paul Key, “Here’s to Health: Help Available for Hay Feverites”, in The Daily Register, volume 90, number 37, Red Bank…. From the entry ambrosia
  • Outside his cage were more bars, and, beyond them, narrow steel-bound windows looked out over Los Angeles from the fifteenth floor of the Hall of Justice.1949, Ray Morrison, Angels Camp. From the entry graybar hotel
  • By the fifteenth the season was in full blast, Opera and theatres were putting forth their new attractions, dinner-engagements were accumulating, and dates for dances being fixed.1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 26, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry put forth
  • At some time in the fifteenth century a silk-worker called John of Calabria, an Italian immigrant, had introduced a new kind of silk-weaving loom, which made the process somewhat easier.1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 108-109. From the entry drawboy

Meaning of fifteenth

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number fifteen.
  2. noun The person or thing in the fifteenth position.
  3. noun One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.

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Questions about fifteenth in a sentence

How do you use fifteenth in a sentence?
Fifteenth is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.”
What is a short sentence with fifteenth?
“By the fifteenth century a yedding is glossed as a romance.”
What does fifteenth mean?
Fifteenth means the ordinal form of the number fifteen.

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