fourteens
- plural of fourteen.
Example Sentences
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The function is a combination of sines and cosines with a lot of sixes and fourteens floating around, but somehow it has five-fold rotational symmetry.
From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2015
The atmosphere behind the scenes has always had the effect of making me feel as if my boots were number fourteens and my hands, if anything, larger.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
It is well known that similar omissions of obscure or unworthy links occur in St. Matthew’s pedigree of our Lord, although some stress is there laid upon the recurrent division into fourteens.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
The petitions of the Lord's Prayer are arranged as seven, there are seven parables in ch. xiii., seven woes in ch. xxiii., and the genealogy of our Lord is arranged in three fourteens.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
You finish your night-week at 7.00 Sunday morning, having just done a week of one twenty-four hour shift, and six fourteens.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford
