Example sentences for: seventeenth

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

  • In standard Spanish, bato means “simpleton” or “foolish fellow,” and it has been in use in rural areas of New Mexico since the seventeenth century.

  • In the Southwest the creation of nacimientos has been a tradition since the seventeenth century.

  • Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.

  • From faltering beginnings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  • And whenever we consider the possibility of borrowing at the end of the seventeenth century, our first thoughts turn, as a matter of course, to France.


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