Example sentences for: thirteenth

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

  • The Thirteenth Floor

  • At the time the amendment was enacted, it was fairly clear that the drafters and the public had a broad construction in mind, for the Thirteenth Amendment became the constitutional foundation in 1866 for the first Civil Rights Act—indeed, the Act that is still used today to prosecute those who, like the police who beat up Rodney King, engage in racially motivated deprivations of civil rights.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment betokens an entirely new way of thinking about government—not as an ever-threatening enemy, but as a necessary partner in the building of a society free of interpersonal exploitation.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment charges the federal government with the responsibility to make sure that neither “slavery” nor “involuntary servitude” shall come to exist in the United States.

  • The Thirteenth Floor is the latest alternative-universe special-effects extravaganza, following Dark City , eXistenZ , and The Matrix . A team of virtual-reality technicians operates in an alternative universe, circa 1937.


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