SEVENTEEN in a Sentence

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For SEVENTEEN, below is one of 52 sentences:
When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEVENTEEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seventeen
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
 a.  being one more than sixteen
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Remember, my love, that you are not seventeen.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  Perhaps," said Elinor, "thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
4  At seventeen she was lost to me for ever.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
6  There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 25
7  The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
8  Standing at the first litany, Levin attempted to revive in himself his youthful recollections of the intense religious emotion he had passed through between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
9  There I once shot seventeen snipe.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
10  Petrov, the bank director, had twelve thousand; Sventitsky, a company director, had seventeen thousand; Mitin, who had founded a bank, received fifty thousand.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
11  And she remembered how, long, long ago, when she was a girl of seventeen, she had gone with her aunt to Troitsa.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 28
12  The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  She was only seventeen, she had superb health and energy, and Charles' people did their best to make her happy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  She was only seventeen now and there was still a lot of dancing left in her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The jury returned an acquittal after only seventeen minutes.
2  I got it on seventeen days approval, so if you don't like it we can change it.