sixtieth
IPA: sˈɪkstiɪθ
noun
- The person or thing in the sixtieth position.
- One of sixty equal parts of a whole.
adjective
- The ordinal form of the number sixty.
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Examples of "sixtieth" in Sentences
- Not to mention the vast array of carrots and sticks that Obama has at his disposal to coax and cajole the 'sixtieth'
- Now we're celebrating our sixtieth anniversary as Birkman International, and the Birkman Method has been used by some 3 million people and more than 5,000 organizations.
- On a recent business trip to SE Asia and all too aware of my impending sixtieth birthday next January, I reserved an extra day in Bangkok for some routine medical tests and procedures.
- Policymakers and heads of state gathered in Geneva earlier this month to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Statelessness Convention.
- Starting on the sixtieth floor there were small ledges protruding from the sides of the building every ten floors for supers with flight or other transportation options to land in order to access the higher floors without going through the elevator or stairs.
- Not to mention the vast array of carrots and sticks that Obama has at his disposal to coax and cajole the 'sixtieth' Senators he has failed to use, and even worse, his proactive stance in empowering the Finance committee's half-Republican 'Gang of Six' that ended in disaster.
- In these oblations there is a progression as to the relation between the kind and the quantity: of the corn, the sixth of a tenth, that is, a sixtieth part of the quantity specified; of the oil, the tenth of a tenth, that is, an hundredth part; and of the flock, one from every two hundred.
- Even if we confine the discussion to the health care debate, where the four 'sixtieth' Senators 'appear at their most powerful, the question still remains: Does the failure to deliver a progressive bill lie in the institutional arrangements of government, or rather a failure of Democratic leadership?
- With all the corrupt Party officials and cadres taken down in this crackdown action, it still hasn't smeared the reputation of the Party, in fact has displayed the central Party leadership's resolve to fight corruption, brightening up the Party's promise, you could even say this is a great gift leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
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