Ninth

"Ninth" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The speech contest took place on the ninth of November.

I have just received your letter of the ninth.

Bases loaded, two outs in the ninth inning.

Have you ever listened to Beethoven's "Ninth"?

It was on the morning of February the ninth that I arrived in London.

The top eight players survived the ninth day of the tournament.

Tell me the name of the ninth month.

He had a shutout until the ninth inning.

Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.

First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth... penultimate, last.

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Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.

Kash Patel, born to Gujarati parents in New York in 1980, was sworn in as the ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, in the presence of his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins and his family.

οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, should be translated “a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)”, “no tithing” (literally, “a ninth is not given”, “no ninth-ing”, if I may coin such a word).

A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios

THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.

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