Example sentences for: fifteen

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

  • Fifteen years ago, when I arrived in London, to live outside the United States for the first time in my life, I was fitting the key into my new front door when an elderly woman called to me from the neighboring garden.

  • Taking quite at random a single page (page 7) in the journals of the Gregory brothers recording an early (1846) exploration of country east and north of Perth, I find the word water used fifteen times.

  • It is interesting to observe that Dryden, born only fifteen years after the death of Shakespeare, should a mere forty years later regard him as being of another age: clearly, three centuries ago people had quite a perception of time different from our own, largely, I believe, brought about by our more thorough documentation of the past hundred years in books, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, films, and, more recently, videos.

  • Fifteen women between the ages of 19 and 43, and who were between 1 and 48 weeks postpartum, were recruited (mean age = 32 SD 8.43).

  • We've come from Cuba to Alaska in fifteen minutes.”


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