Example Sentences

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If there are two and a tenth waves or eleven twelfths of a wave of one note for every wave of another note, they don't fit together as well.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Double and triple consonant endings present difficulties of articulation:—Robbed, bragged, divulged, mends, breathed, gossips, casques, barracks, depths, heights, lengths, breadths, lists, aspects, seethes, thirsteth, breathest, sheath'st, melt'st, search'st, sixths, twelfths, tests.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.

The windlass cup is two and seven twelfths holes long, two thirds of a hole thick, and three quarters broad.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

It should be given the thickness of seven twelfths of a hole.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Everything has to be done by halves, quarters, or even tenths or twelfths, a la X. So I sit down again, cross my arms, and surrender myself to pure, unalloyed SUFFERING.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Hueffer, Francis