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• They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.From the entry waltz
• After seventeen days of rain and floods, the 4 am sunrise was a sight for sore eyes.From the entry sight for sore eyes
• In seventeen instances, an alpha female approached a beta female while both were alone, and they mated.2009, Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow, →ISBN. From the entry beta female
• Seventeen practitioners drape a Falun Gong banner across the rostrum of Tian'anmen.2005, Jennifer Zeng, translated by Sue Wiles, Witnessing History, Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333. From the entry Tian'anmen
• His online profile listed his name as Byron Hasselback, age seventeen.2005, Joanna Wayne, Security Measures, Toronto: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry hasselback
• Students usually complete high school when they are seventeen years old.2002, Malika Hollander, Brazil: The People, page 23. From the entry vestibular
• The personnelman knew the books, having studied them for seventeen years.1999, Jim R. Lane, Duty: A Novel, Bridge Works Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry personnelman
• Seventeen hundred downstrikes of lightning later, destruction reigns over southwest Oregon.1994, David A. Perry, Forest Ecosystems, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry downstrike
• Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls.1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders. From the entry tacky
• One strain symbiosed with seventeen of the twenty-one species, whereas another symbiosed with only five.1945, J. K. Wilson, The Symbiotic Performance of Isolates from Soybean with Species of Crotalaria and Certain Other Plants. From the entry symbiose
• He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws.1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik. From the entry hand running
• This old cobbler had "cobbled"—hit and smashed—seventeen other cobblers on similar strings.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Casting Off of Morel—The Taking On of William”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]…. From the entry cobbler
• The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian.2022, Margot Guralnick, Fan Winston, Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home: A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living, Artisan, →ISBN. From the entry Sussex
• She was seventeen; he, the deeder, was someone named Jonah, Oh, Jonah, was older, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five, fifty-five, something like that.2018, Jesse Miller, Unwrap Your Candy. From the entry deeder
• In China, topsoil is being lost fifty-seven times faster than this natural replacement process; in Europe seventeen times faster.2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry topsoil
• Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself.2011, Alison Weir, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558, page 131. From the entry lutestring
• Don't we spend seventeen years or more in educational institutions, preparing for the work world so we can make good money?2010, Carolyn Castleberry, Women, Take Charge of Your Money, page 160. From the entry good money
• Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people—our entire race is in his hands.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1. From the entry race
• Most bipoded models run seventeen pounds empty.2007, Barrett Tillman, “We Need Guns and Gear” (chapter 5), in What We Need: Extravagance and Shortages in America's Military, St. Paul…. From the entry bipoded
• The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.1999 March, David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea": Atlantic Monthly. From the entry splash
• Now that Agnes is seventeen and her education, or ignorization, has been concluded to his satisfaction, Arnolphe intends to wed her.1994, Hanna Scolnicov, Woman's Theatrical Space, page 73. From the entry ignorization
• Since my arrival I’d lost seventeen pounds.1988, John Grant (as Jonathan Gash), chapter 30, in Jade Woman, page 221. From the entry gigolo
• “I figure between fifteen and seventeen hours.1988, Jack Early [pseudonym; Sandra Scoppettone], chapter 2, in Donato & Daughter, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry it's not over 'til the fat lady sings
• The vājapeya is seventeenfold; it has seventeen stotras.1976, H. W. Bodewitz, “The Agnihotra in Relation with Other Sacrifices”, in The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) According…. From the entry seventeenfold
• Up to seventeen per cent at bingo and the wheel of fortune, and fifteen to twenty per cent at the slots.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 14, in Diamonds Are Forever. From the entry hn
• The rafts were made up of strings of logs about seventeen feet wide, held together by poles across them.1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24). From the entry lockdown
• "Julie left Miss Bence's School at seventeen, had a coming-out party in our city house the following winter."1914, Kathleen Norris, chapter 3, in Saturday's Child. From the entry coming-out party
• And Maud, surely seventeen by now.2005, Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way, New York: Viking, Part 3, Chapter 19, page 244. From the entry walk out
• He was a scrawny sort, not over seventeen, with pimples in the corners of his lips and hair the color of mopwater.2004, Joe Jackson, How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things, page 39. From the entry mopwater
• Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam.1989 April 4 [1987 August], Dezhi Yang, “Regulations”, in Leo Kanner Associates, transl., For Peace [Weile Heping], Foreign Technology…. From the entry victoriously
• As far as broads were concerned, I was seventeen years old before I was able to get my finger damp enough to turn a page.1984 [1972], Robert Byrne, McGoorty: A Billiard Hustler's Life, New York: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry cocksman
• Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 39, in Earthly Powers, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry menhir
• The Upper Volta was the eleventh former territory of seventeen that approved the new French Constitution to set itself up as a republic.1958 December 12, “New Republic Formed: Upper Volta Decides Status in the French Community”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry Upper Volta
• "I've supported her for seventeen years.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence. From the entry for a change
• It took only seventeen plays, most of them off tackle plunges, before Houlahan slid over the line on a crossback for the touchdown.1919, Columbia Alumni News - Volume 9, page 119. From the entry crossback
• Seventeen students lined up before spellmistress Marline Stephenson Dalley at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in St Mary to get things going with the first word: A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.2022 September 29, Kerry-Ann Hepburn, “Kyria wins St Mary title as Bee buzz returns”, in The Gleaner. From the entry spellmistress
• The words slow is smooth; smooth is fast ran through his mind as he found a stair down to lane level and moved into lane seventeen.2014 October 14, Weston Ochse, Reign of Evil: A SEAL Team 666 Novel, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry slow is smooth, smooth is fast
• Jack and an enormously-breasted teenage Jane go off to summer camp where seventeen of their friends are hacked to pieces by an ax-wielding lumberjack named Mr.2000, Steve Tatham, 1001, a Video Odyssey: Movies to Watch for Your Every Mood, page 181. From the entry misfigure
• There were seventeen others there with him, and after being viciously beaten they were moved to the Hokang Reformatory and forced to mine coal in the Tungshan mines.[1964, Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, “From Fear to Recognizing my Guilt”, in W. J. F. Jenner, transl., From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of…. From the entry Hegang
• During the eventful millenniums of China's chequered history, rulers and statesmen deemed it wise no fewer than seventeen times to change the situation of the nation's capital.1913, Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D., Twenty-five Years in Honan, Toronto: Hunter-Rose Co., page 1. From the entry Honan

Meaning of seventeen

1. numeral The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

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Questions about seventeen in a sentence

How do you use seventeen in a sentence?

Seventeen is used as a numeral. For example: “They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.”

What is a short sentence with seventeen?

“"I've supported her for seventeen years.”

What does seventeen mean?

Seventeen means the cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.