HUNDREDTH in a Sentence

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We shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young carter out of my way with the greatest indignation.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUNDREDTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hundredth
 n.  position 100 in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence:
1  We shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young carter out of my way with the greatest indignation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
2  Her baby girl had been born in the most painful circumstances and had not had a hundredth part of the care and thought which had been concentrated on her first child.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 31
Example Sentence:
1  The United States five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a unit of currency equaling one-twentieth, or five hundredths, of a United States dollar.