Example sentences for: fifteen

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

  • The Washington Post 's top national story is an account of how, fifteen years and $50 billion after Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech, the U.S. still doesn't have an anti-ballistic-missile defense system.

  • 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 minutes after the injection, the maximal artifactual increase in lung tissue represented 45 ± 43% of the apparent increase in lung tissue (extremes 6 and 100%).

  • Fifteen point four percent were teaching hospitals.


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