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Example sentences for: fifteenth

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And the piece waits until its fifteenth paragraph to mention welfare reform, which removed a financial incentive for having children out of wedlock--and then, claiming that the drop has been steady long before welfare reform was passed, says that "according to some people who monitor fertility rates" it was not a significant factor.
Never mind that the Oxford English Dictionary documents the word's use since the fifteenth century or that it is familiar all over the English-speaking world.
Born in 1846 to Irish Catholic parents in Pennsylvania, he enlisted in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War.
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.
The NYT doesn't get to that latter bit of unpleasantness until the fifteenth paragraph of its bank story.