Example sentences for: fifteenth

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

  • They are contracted to play at traditional ritual celebrations, such as baptisms, weddings, quinceañeras (fifteenth birthday parties), fiestas patrias (patriotic festivals), most festivals, and sometimes funerals.

  • The Fourteenth Amendment could conceivably have been sufficient to insure equal voting rights for all, doing away with the need for the Fifteenth, the Nineteenth, and later amendments to secure the franchise.

  • For To the Lighthouse to place fifteenth provides a moment of cheer, for it proves that someone has indeed read to the end of it.

  • Festivals on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month are especially lively times to visit.

  • Much of the research on Quinceañeras shows that families want to maintain a cultural historical tradition, and the celebration of a daughter’s fifteenth birthday is a means of continuing cultural ties to a Latino heritage.


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