Example sentences for: thirteenth

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

  • This approach resulted in a consent rate of 40% for the initial six programs, 61% for programs 7-10 and 100% by the thirteenth program.

  • As my rewriting of the Thirteenth Amendment would have it: Securing and protecting the autonomy of labor would become the duty of all state power.

  • Representatives of the Devil, naturally, do all they can to make that happen, while God's servants--among them Alan Rickman as the resonant and wearily fey "Voice of God," Salma Hayek as a slinky muse, and Chris Rock as the "Thirteenth Apostle" (the black one expunged from Scripture)--struggle to stave off Armageddon.

  • 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.

  • This would, admittedly, be an unconventional way of formulating the demands of the Thirteenth Amendment.


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