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Example sentences for: ordinal

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

1. What is the rank/position/ordinal number of Bill Clinton as the President/among the presidents of the US?
Recently, a reader of my column sent me a letter asking me whether it would be correct to use How manieth to form an ordinal question.
To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
What he asked me was, How can we ask a question in English that elicits an ordinal number as answer?
This ordinal transformation was performed in order to calculate the kappa statistic.