Example sentences for: sixty

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

  • Sixty percent of the demand for boilermakers in the construction division is from the utility industry.

  • However the Postal Service did provide as much detail as is collected a volume distribution by transportation mode and shape for sixty individual countries.

  • At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.

  • But when we take time to explore the vagaries of English, we find that hot dogs can be cold, darkrooms can be lit, nightmares can take place in broad daylight, midwives can be men, hours--especially happy hours and rush hours--can last longer than sixty minutes, ice cubes can be noncubic, tablecloths can be made of paper, silverware can be made of plastic, most telephones are dialed by being punched (or pushed?)

  • Patients over sixty years of age were contacted upon admission on all units involved in the study.


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