Example sentences for: seventeenth

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

  • Unbeknownst to many but historians and other researchers, librarians, older Britishers, those who rummage about among antiquarian books, and other eccentrics are the periodicals published in Great Britain and, to some extent, in America from the seventeenth century onward.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • 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.

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

  • Twenty-three when he arrived in Afghanistan in 1980, Bin Ladin was the seventeenth of 57 children of a Saudi construction magnate.


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