FOURTH in a Sentence

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For FOURTH, below is one of 127 sentences:
Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling, the fourth resource comes into operation.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOURTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fourth
 a.  constituting number four in a sequence
 a.  a quarter
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  In three of these, Madame Magloire cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  This happened, I think, towards the end of the fourth year of his captivity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape arrived.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
4  Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
5  On the first goblet this inscription could be read, monkey wine; on the second, lion wine; on the third, sheep wine; on the fourth, hog wine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
6  These four legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
7  I passed my fourth examination.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
8  The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
9  Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
10  As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and employees.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
11  It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
12  If there were a fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air of that Grace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
13  Here this man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by a third, then by a fourth.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
14  As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
15  Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings.
2  When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
3  The fourth night of violence in the German city of Rostock was triggered by football supporters.
4  Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
5  She has recently published her fourth book with the Commercial Press.
6  By the time the fourth course was served, I was stuffed to the gills.
7  From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
8  This was the fourth mass killing in Australia in four years.
9  Uruguay's scoring spree began in the fourth minute.
10  The London-based foursome are set to release their fourth single this month.
11  Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling, the fourth resource comes into operation.
12  It's his fourth season as an Arsenal defender.
13  After looking at the jug, Faulkner concurred that it was late Roman, third or fourth century.
14  The fourth volume of Make magazine, which I edit, is now available on Amazon.
15  The American, who won his fourth gold medal here in Athens Thursday in the 200-meter individual medley, is the favored swimmer tonight in the 100-meter butterfly.