Example sentences for: sixty

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

  • C. Sixty five nm sections were cut from the embedded tissue using a Reichert-Jung Ultracut E microtome and collected onto gold grids (200 mesh) (SPI Inc., Westchester, PA).

  • Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.

  • Among other provisions, the legislation limited the permissible hours of work to ten per day and sixty per week.

  • Sixty years after the opening of Wanamaker’s Philadelphia store, another entrepreneur synthesized a set of existing technologies and, along with a number of other retailers, began another revolution in the industry.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...


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