Sentences with 'tenth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tenth and other words derived from it.
• « Sarah reached her tenth birthday, but her health began to deteriorate greatly. She was hospitalized again in December 1989. »
• « Today, thanks to the joint efforts of NASA and the US Air Force and the great cost reduction made possible by the nascent technology (from a tenth to a hundredth of the cost of a space taxi), the NASH (National Aerospace Plane) project was created to build and fly an experimental hypersonic aircraft called X-30 to transform the old idea of the air lung into a reality. »
• « Ask ten people what they think of criticism, and nine will find it frightening and destructive. They will go to great lengths to avoid it. Perhaps only the tenth person will see the positive side of criticism: its capacity to mature us. »
• « In the tenth of a series of essays later known as The Federalist Papers, Virginian James Madison wrote: "Democracies have always been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have always been found incompatible with personal security or property rights; and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths". »