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sixth

[ UK /sˈɪksθ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪksθ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
NOUN
  1. the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
  2. position six in a countable series of things
  3. one part in six equal parts

How To Use sixth In A Sentence

  • Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
  • There have been many histories of Jerusalem, from Jeremiah's sixth century B.C. monody to "For Jerusalem," a premature happy ending written in the 1970s by a successful mayor, Teddy Kollek. City of Peace—and War
  • The eldest school of Greek philosophy, called the Ionian, was founded by Thales of Miletus, about the middle of the sixth century B.C. Mosaics of Grecian History
  • I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
  • The violoncello piccolo is used in Cantata BWV 6, but not in the sixth Cello Suite #6, for which the piece was scored.
  • A senate committee has killed a bill that would have ended Virginia's four-year-old mandate that girls receive the vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus before enrolling in the sixth grade. Senate panel kills bill to end Virginia's HPV vaccine mandate
  • He is a green jacket away from being only the sixth man in history to complete the career grand slam. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.
  • Days moved by quickly and pretty soon, Gillian reached her sixth month check up, which this time included an ultrasound.
  • Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
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