How to use tithe in a sentence
11 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb
Tithe means a tenth. Example: “The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.”
Examples of tithe by meaning
verbTo pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax.
- They went to the Six Hickories church—tithed—and behaved themselves.1942 September, Esquire, page 174
verbTo pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
- Former Southern officers prospered and tithed up to 50 percent for Civil War II, which never came.1976 June 20, Billings Gazette, C1
More sentences with tithe
- The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.From the entry measure
- Of this sum, a tithe was payable to the lord of the manor as cliffage.1977, David Rees, A Gower Anthology, page 55. From the entry cliffage
- The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 873. From the entry perquisite
- Oaks had no intention of paying any more tithe.1997, Tim Powers, Faultlines, Doubleday Books, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry sexorcism
- In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii. From the entry limehouse
- A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC. From the entry tilly
- Aye! know that you would be weeping for wonder before you had seen a tithe of these gauds.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry gaud
- The corvée is an archaic feature, absent from later statutes, but the notion that 50 akçes was the rate of compensation due for loss of tithes lingered.2011, Christine Woodhead, editor, The Ottoman World. From the entry akçe
- Thus Caesarea, a city inhabited by pagans and Jews, was originally considered part of Eretz Yisrael for the purposes of tithes and the Sabbatical year, but was later excluded.2000, David Golinkin, “Returning Territories for the Sake of Peace”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 32. From the entry Caesarea
Meaning of tithe
- noun A tenth.
- noun The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
- noun A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
Questions about tithe in a sentence
- How do you use tithe in a sentence?
- Tithe is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.”
- What is a short sentence with tithe?
- “A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.”
- What does tithe mean?
- Tithe means a tenth.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tithe (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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