SIXTH in a Sentence

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For SIXTH, below is one of 37 sentences:
In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIXTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sixth
 a.  coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
 n.  position six in a countable series of things
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  But the sixth valet spoke differently to the sixth stranger, who sat near Candide.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
2  In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  In front of the sixth are placed two English tombs of granite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  Two divisions, the fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
5  These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
6  When the sixth had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
7  The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect the gate, as Eponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in succession, and shaking them cautiously.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
8  I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
9  On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been ordered.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION
10  At the sixth he began to reflect that the search was rather dubious.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
11  There came to his mind a curious phrase from CORNELIUS A LAPIDE which said that the lice born of human sweat were not created by God with the other animals on the sixth day.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  It was the sixth of October, dismal and cold out of doors.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
13  They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  Her that turned me out was my sixth stepmother.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker's oven.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In KING GRISLY-BEARD
Example Sentence:
1  Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of crude oil within OPEC.
2  My new house is on the sixth floor.
3  Saturn is the planet sixth in order from the sun.
4  He was counted out at the end of the sixth round.
5  Yeah, Jenny and I go back to sixth grade.
6  The interesting thing about O'Reilly is his sixth sense for finding people who have good ideas.
7  In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day.
8  Her name appeared sixth in the dispatch, which listed more than 50 funeral committee members.