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Seventeenth in sentence

85 examples of Seventeenth in a sentence

And on my seventeenth birthday, my parents, knowing how much I loved speed, gave me one driving lesson for my seventeenth birthday.
And on my seventeenth birthday, after my fake eye exam, the eye specialist just noticed it happened to be my birthday.
On my seventeenth birthday, as Janis Ian would best say, I learned the truth at 17.
Numerous editions were published across Europe in the seventeenth century.
But on the seventeenth day, the news exploded from the radio: Pincho was free and obviously alive.
A strange man in seventeenth century garb tries to accost her there and the building.
Though the film is not action-oriented and would likely be of little interest to many viewers, the performances are good and the seventeenth century dialogue used in the film's many flashbacks sounds very convincing.
Today's actors when you dress them in seventeenth century attire look like twenty-first century blow dried wimps dressed in costume.
After his seventeenth murder in moving lift, a psychiatric patient named Devlon was killed by the police.
But the dynamic might go further: the German territories had around 350 independent political entities in the mid-eighteenth century, and more than 3,000 before the middle of the seventeenth century.
Thanks to the scientific revolution that began in the seventeenth century, humans today enjoy instant communication, rapid transportation, a rich and diverse diet, and effective prevention and treatment for once-fatal illnesses.
Should one apologize for the Crusades, for the destruction of German cities by the armies of King Louis the XIV in the seventeenth century, not to mention the armies of Napoleon?
The fact that Trump’s presidency seems to have escaped from the set of a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century period drama is no accident.
The idea of using blood substitutes was first advanced in the seventeenth century, and continues to attract researchers today.
When the Dutch arrived in the seventeenth century, Tasmanians had the simplest technology ever encountered by European explorers.
But, before he could, Churchill stood up, naked, and proclaimed, “The prime minister of Britain has nothing to hide from the president of the United States!”Things did not go so well for those who hosted the young Tsar Peter I of Russia during his famous “grand embassy” tour of Europe at the end of the seventeenth century.
Nevertheless, the stakes are far higher than in the seventeenth century, because Iran represents a threat that combines a fanatic religion with a determination to acquire nuclear weapons.
Modern Western philosophers, writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, expanded on these ideas.
Insurance, on the other hand, is a reliable and venerable institution, its modern form dating back to the seventeenth century.
For example, in the seventeenth century, the Netherlands flourished domestically but declined in relative power as other states grew in strength.
In fact, it describes Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century.
In the seventeenth century, the economist and investor Sir William Petty was tasked with surveying large swaths of army land, much of which lay fallow, in Ireland.
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, the “exoticism” of the Ottoman Empire was used as a mirror to project Europeans’ own shortcomings and insecurities.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, German immigrants, the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch, carried them to the United States, from where they later spread to the rest of the world, if only as marketing icons for Coca Cola.
Local militias achieved prominence and power in the Netherlands, beginning in 1568 during the long struggle against the Spanish Habsburgs, though they were again sidelined when the threat passed in the late seventeenth century.
These conflicts are further exacerbated by the ruthlessness that characterizes religious wars – just like those in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The US ranked seventeenth from the top, a not-so-glorious position for the world’s leading power.
In the late seventeenth century, in the wake of Britain’s Glorious Revolution, when Britain revolted against the spendthrift and autocratic Stuart dynasty, the British government that was formed after William and Mary assumed the throne adopted a new approach to debt.
During the Age of Exploration, which extended from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and James Cook embarked on dangerous journeys to distant lands, from New Zealand to Newfoundland, drawing detailed charts of their voyages.
As far back as the seventeenth century, whenever monarchs or parliamentarians would try to control Britain’s press, British pamphleteers and polemicists would fight back – and often win.
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