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Example sentences for: eighteenth

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

Taking this clue, word detectives suggest that son of a gun originated during the eighteenth century, when nonmilitary women were permitted to live aboard naval ships.
First were the Mexican Spaniards who settled the region in the eighteenth century and their descendents, called Californios, who represented the California Spanish traditions that Espinosa most wanted to study.
By the late eighteenth century, the Catholic Church forbade additional burials inside churches, supposedly for public health reasons, but the ricos, the well-to-do, continued to buy their way into the churches.
Some of the items in this category are words of long standing (since the introduction of English in the Cape in the late eighteenth century) that have often passed into international English: trek, veld, laager etc.
"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."