6 sentences with 'twentieth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word twentieth and other words derived from it.
• « In the early years of the twentieth century, Kipling made many warnings of the danger of war with Germany, and insisted that compulsory military service should be instituted. »
• « Along the way, of course, they included the United States as a product of those European achievements and, in the twentieth century, as one of the strongest defenders of that legacy. »
• « Peter the Great's military reforms were far-reaching - he instituted conscription in 1705 that required every twentieth serf to serve for life in his armies, and oversaw the building of the Russian navy from scratch. »
• « After all, liberal and nationalist legal frameworks had triumphed almost everywhere in Europe by the end of the twentieth century, but significantly the voting rights of each nation's citizens remained limited. »
• « Especially during the modernist period, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century, artists and writers had often staged their works in opposition to the culture and beliefs of their societies, but artists of the postmodern era could play with the mainstream without rejecting or breaking with it. »
• « How long had he been trapped there? Without his watch, he had no idea. He peed for perhaps the twentieth time, then put on his rubber diving suit to protect himself from the cold. »