Example sentences for: twelfth

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

  • 900” twelfth “bef.

  • "Scholars," Grafton explains, "have placed the birth of the footnote in the twelfth century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, and the nineteenth--never without good reason but usually without attending to the other chapters in this story."

  • The gate houses the two Benevolent Kings, guardian deities created in the twelfth century by master sculptors Unkei and Kaikei to guard the inner temple compound.

  • Lenten food being frugal and stinted, Shakespeare has lenten entertainment in Hamlet , a lenten answer in Twelfth Night , and a lenten pye in Romeo and Juliet.

  • Jö;ns Jakob Berzelius, who discovered selenium (from Greek selene , moon) in 1818 and named silicon (from Latin silex , flint) in 1824, compiled the first systematic table of the elements in 1828, arranged according to units of atomic weight one twelfth of the heft of the commonest isotope of carbon.


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