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How To Use twentieth In A Sentence

• It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• In the first half of the twentieth century, Darwinian evolution and Mendelian genetics were not popular subjects in France.
• Mao was your typical twentieth century despot, and only moon-eyed Communists would beg to differ. Chairman Mao in a Dress Not Funny?
• A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community. Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
• Or “incurve,” a term commonly used as the nineteenth century became the twentieth. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
• The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
• He was one of the finest American prose stylists of the twentieth century - is also on the list.
• In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well. New Urban Legends
• During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
• Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.