fortieth

How To Use fortieth In A Sentence

• I'm in my fortieth year, but I am sound in wind and limb.
• I continued my experiments in heliochromy for a period of about two years, during which time I made many photographs in colours, and discovered a method of developing the coloured image, which enabled me to shorten the exposure to one-fortieth of the previously-required time. Men of Invention and Industry
• Since Natura had been in what they call a settled state in the world, it had always been his custom to distinguish the anniversary of that day which gave him birth, by providing a polite entertainment for his friends and kindred: he had now attained to his fortieth year, and though it had been that in which he had known more poignant disquiets, than in any one of his whole life before; yet thinking that to neglect the observation of it now, would give occasion for remarks on his reasons for so doing, he resolved to treat it with the usual ceremony. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
• Well, today is Dr. D's fortieth birthday, so you all should drop by his site and wish him a happy birthday.
• She knew the answer: people desperate for fortieth anniversary presents. JUST BETWEEN US
• This same year, that is to say the fortieth year after the passion of our The Golden Legend, vol. 3
• Parties in Hugh's were always fun and a fortieth wedding anniversary was sure to be a splendid affair. JUST BETWEEN US
• On my fortieth birthday I had reached a fork in the road, and I decided to give up working for somebody else and start my own business.
• This is the measure of the Truma" (or, of the oblation yielded to the priests), A good eye yieldeth one out of forty; that is, the fortieth part. From the Talmud and Hebraica
• Speaking of sound engineers (and, indeed, of sound men), a gentleman of the Australian nation is celebrating his fortieth birthday today.