Example sentences for: eighteenth

How can you use “eighteenth” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.”

  • The attire of the Mariachis is a charro (horseman) suit that incorporates elements of the Spaniards’ dress of the eighteenth century: boots, tight-fitting pants, short waist-length jackets, all embroidered with braid or silver ornaments.

  • "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."

  • 1000” eighteenth “bef.

  • Found throughout Mexico, retablos date from the middle of the eighteenth century in New Mexico.


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