fifthly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The Mariners added two more runs in the fifthly inning.
From Seattle Times
For it is impossible, fifthly, to separate the gift of adoption from the Divine Sacrifice, which contains it and imparts it.
From Project Gutenberg
First, the being threatened to be tortured; secondly, being carried to the place of torture; thirdly, by stripping and binding; fourthly, the being hoisted on the rack; fifthly, squassation.
From Project Gutenberg
"If it is firstly, secondly, thirdly, fourthly, fifthly, sixthly—" "Please to be serious," he interrupted.
From Project Gutenberg
There are, secondly, “the structural and psychological imperfections of the work”; thirdly, “the tendency to unnecessary coarseness of language”; fourthly, “the feeble imitation of Shakspere”; fifthly, “the frequent similarity to Massinger's acknowledged writings.”
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