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• He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.From the entry of
• Horses became obsolete means of transportation in cities in the first half of the twentieth century.From the entry obsolete
• In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.From the entry mars
• The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.From the entry heyday
• The mining of asphalt was big business in this area in the early twentieth century.From the entry asphalt
• The Egyptian tomb remained unlooted until its discovery in the early twentieth century.From the entry unlooted
• The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.From the entry schedule
• At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island.2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association, archived from the original on…. From the entry off-island
• By the early to mid twentieth century, the folk song about Omie Wise was widely known.2015, Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Omie
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were three methods of harvesting mussels.2012, Lisa Knopp, “Mississippi Harvest” (chapter 3), in What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte…. From the entry pollywog
• The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century.2012 May 3, “Exhibition in focus: Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery”, in The Daily Telegraph, London. From the entry Bauhaus
• All that history informs pre-Windrush writing in the early twentieth century.2012 December 1, Supriya M. Nair, Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Modern Language Association, →ISBN. From the entry Windrush
• Already we've seen early hallmarks of the twentieth century: colonial decay, cultural appropriation, and competing trademarks.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima
• In the twentieth century most of these vegetables were planted from seeds purchased from feedstores.2009, Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy, page 33. From the entry feedstore
• In the far corner, representing the twentieth century, is the granddaddy of all common stocks, AT&T.2007, W. Randall Jones, Julie M. Fenster, The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time, Crown Business, →ISBN, page 245. From the entry granddaddy
• Much of the twentieth century’s gains in crop production was due to irrigation.2004, Dr Michael Mayerfeld Bell & Michael S. Carolan, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (Second Edition), p14 (Pine Forge Press…. From the entry salinize
• The later twentieth century saw the fortuitous simultaneous rise of two synergistic political and psychological sciences.2002 Sean Pertwee as Father, Equilibrium, 24 minutes. From the entry hate crime
• In this scheme the critical epoch falls within the framework of a ‘short’ twentieth century.1999, W[illia]m Roger Louis, “Introduction”, in Judith M[argaret] Brown, Wm. Roger Louis, editors, The Twentieth Century (The Oxford…. From the entry short twentieth century
• Popcorn crisps and crispettes were also popular at the turn of the twentieth century.1999, Andrew F. Smith, “Popcorn Crisps and Crispettes”, in Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America, Columbia, S.C.…. From the entry crispette
• Well into the twentieth century, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Grand Banks fleet stayed with sail power.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 128. From the entry cure
• Tracing their twentieth century origins back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, expansivists were energized by FDR's leadership.1989, William F. Grover, The President as Prisoner, page 8. From the entry expansivist
• Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority.1986, James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN. From the entry genocide
• It is "Jewmania” instead of "witchmania" which rages in the twentieth century.1945 March 28, The Lutheran - Volume 27, page 5. From the entry Jewmania
• The educated man of the twentieth century is not anaemic, languishing in a washed-out, wan vitality.(Can we date this quote?), Wake Forest College, Bulletin of Wake Forest College…. From the entry anaemic
• An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even.1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry wallop
• We see a twentieth century that was not a British, a North Atlantic, or an Anglospherian, but an American century.2016, Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy, →ISBN. From the entry Anglospherian
• The main focus of the History Meeting House (HMH) is the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.2015 March 23, “Poland in the Eyes of Dutch Photographer Willem Van De Poll”, in Communications Unlimited. From the entry HMH
• The chantuelle were the forerunners of the predominantly male calypso artists who emerged as popular singers in the twentieth century.2013, Rochelle Rowe, “Cleaning Up Carnival: Race, Culture and Power in the Trinidad ‘Carnival Queen’ Beauty Competition, 1946–59”, in…. From the entry chantwell
• The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN. From the entry antilithium
• Mill's account of proper names as connotationless tags did not enjoy much support through most of the twentieth century.2008, Stathis Psillos, Martin Curd, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, page 37. From the entry connotationless
• The exact timing of the tenth and twentieth anniversaries, the decennalia and the vicennalia, has already been discussed at length.2005, Jakob Munk Højte, Roman Imperial Statue Bases from Augustus to Commodus, p. 157. From the entry vicennalia
• Wharepuni increased greatly in size to the kinds of dimensions that would become common in the twentieth century.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 231. From the entry wharepuni
• Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73. From the entry muscularize
• Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1998, Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin, page 147. From the entry plank
• Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228. From the entry purse-seine
• For the first half of the twentieth century the classic, constant number of baseball teams in a league was eight.1991, Robert W. Creamer, Baseball and Other Matters in 1941, page 37. From the entry second division
• Technostress can affect anyone living in the twentieth century: men and women, young and old, workers, lovers, and students.1984, Craig Brod, Technostress: the human cost of the computer revolution, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry technostress

Meaning of twentieth

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

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Questions about twentieth in a sentence

How do you use twentieth in a sentence?

Twentieth is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.”

What is a short sentence with twentieth?

“The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.”

What does twentieth mean?

Twentieth means the ordinal form of the number twenty.