Example sentences for: fifteen

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

  • This shift in our neighborhood image is very satisfying after fifteen years of concerted efforts by South-East Neighborhood Development (SEND) to reverse community decline.

  • The remaining fifteen percent of allowances will not be made available.

  • A legend arose that the cross may have been left by an ancient saint — perhaps even the Apostle Thomas — some fifteen centuries earlier.

  • 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.

  • She was back within fifteen minutes with the correct solution inked in over the mono-alphabetical cipher.


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