FOURTEEN in a Sentence

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If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain't no telling what she could a done by and by.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOURTEEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fourteen
 n.  the number that is the sum of thirteen and one
 a.  being one more than thirteen
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  They actually awoke to the fact that as Mrs. Sowerby had fourteen people to provide food for she might not have enough to satisfy two extra appetites every day.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  You could buy both potatoes and eggs and eat as many as you liked without feeling as if you were taking food out of the mouths of fourteen people.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
4  If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain't no telling what she could a done by and by.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
5  That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
6  He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE RAVEN
7  It was fourteen years day for day since Dantes' arrest.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
8  Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
9  He was now, as we have said, three-and-thirty years of age, and his fourteen years' imprisonment had produced a great transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
10  Fortunately, Dantes had learned how to wait; he had waited fourteen years for his liberty, and now he was free he could wait at least six months or a year for wealth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
11  You do not know that I remained for fourteen years within a quarter of a league of you, in a dungeon in the Chateau d'If.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview.
12  "He spent fourteen years to arrive at that," muttered the count.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
13  "He remained there fourteen years, Morrel," said the count, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
14  You can go to the barbecue, remember that, and stay up through supper, but no balls until you are fourteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Everybody in the club looked to be fourteen years old.
2  The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth.
3  A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
4  Oil prices fell this week to their lowest level in fourteen months, apparently because of over-production.
5  Children under fourteen should be accompanied by a parent.
6  A by-product of their meeting was the release of these fourteen men.
7  John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.
8  A young lady accustomed to tuition is desirous of meeting with a situation in a private family where the children are under fourteen.