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Example sentences for: eighteenth

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As we all know, the grammar has been distorted by political correctness (e.g., in avoiding the masculine pronoun as a pronoun of reference), and, in a rare opinion, the author concedes that constructions like A Candidate who wishes to enter the School before his or her eighteenth birthday may be asked to write to state his or her reasons can be clumsy.
The population of California did not grow much during the eighteenth century, and after the independence of Mexico from Spain in 1821, Spanish culture quickly declined in the region.
"Scholars," Grafton explains, "have placed the birth of the footnote in the twelfth century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, and the nineteenth--never without good reason but usually without attending to the other chapters in this story."
The late eighteenth century was indeed a marvelously simplistic time.
Johnson had no trouble finding fairly exact counterparts in his London of the eighteenth century for many of the blights of Juvenal's ancient Rome, but there was really nothing to match the horror of the amateur poetry reading in Trajan's time; the closest analogy Johnson could come up with, an elegant one under the circumstances, is his “female atheist.”