Example sentences for: ordinal

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

  • The Karnofsky scale emphasizes physical performance and dependency; it is a descriptive, ordinal scale that ranges from 100 (good health) to 0 (dead).

  • 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.

  • We further considered a transformation to an ordinal scale.

  • 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.

  • 1. What is the rank/position/ordinal number of Bill Clinton as the President/among the presidents of the US?


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