Example sentences for: seventeenth

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

  • 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.

  • Blankets were woven before this period, actually since the seventeenth century, but not many survived from the period of 1600 to 1800.

  • From faltering beginnings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  • At first and throughout the seventeenth century there were no streets to bear names, only a nameless quasi-street leading a short way from the parish church.

  • 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.


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