Synonym: 10th, one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part. Similar words: more often than not, contentment, sententiously, discontentment, seventh, enthrall, tent, parentheses. Meaning: [tenθ] n. 1. a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts 2. position ten in a countable series of things. adj. coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position.
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(91) Of all these horsemen, not a tenth, not even a twentieth eat meat on the march.
(92) In the tenth century the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.
(93) In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century, in the form of castles and churches.
(94) Meanwhile, in May, Darlington Camra will be celebrating its tenth birthday.
(95) When I was in the tenth grade, a very quiet and studious boy invited me to a dance.
(96) The government hopes that wind power will meet around a tenth of total electricity demand by the year 2000.
(97) No shareholder is allowed to own more than a tenth of the company.
(98) Again, the same Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the case.
(99) A tenth of its state legislators may be indicted following a corruption sting.
(100) From convocation he obtained a biennial tenth conditional upon the clergy's exemption from any parliamentary tax.
(101) That way you could make do with a tenth the square footage.
(102) A tenth of people who drank such water are doomed to die, say doctors.
(103) The jurors looked haggard on their tenth day of deliberations.
(104) I made a par on the tenth, a par-four of only 318 yards.
(105) The human and mouse eggs are about one tenth of a millimetre in diameter and are just visible to the naked eye.
(106) He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August.
(107) This year the tenth anniversary of my first visit seemed to tip the project over the brink into plausibility.
(108) Other big spenders include personal social services and the police, each of which takes about a tenth.
(109) All the most lovely words of love and passion could not express one tenth of what I feel for you.
(110) They cost around £50 a piece, less than a tenth the cost of the gas lasers.
(111) The death blow to the Aksumite kingdom came in the tenth century from unassimilated Agaw in the south.
(112) The average separation between the stars at its centre is no more than a tenth of a light-year.
(113) His foster-child comes off best,[Sentencedict] but in addition each of two nurses receives a tenth of his estate.
(114) Of southern and western ports, Weymouth was ranked tenth in 1765 and ninth in 1770 but was not ranked in 1775.
(115) It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen.
(116) He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
(117) The developer plans to extend Thomas Road to meet Tenth Street.
(118) A series of connected events occurred in the tenth century or thereabouts.
(119) Newfoundland, finally, became the tenth province after a plebiscite in 1948.
(120) This old local type was possibly introduced by the Vikings in the eighth to tenth centuries.
More similar words: more often than not, contentment, sententiously, discontentment, seventh, enthrall, tent, parentheses, intent, extent, patent, latent, potent, enthusiasm, even though, detente, content, in the event of, sentence, tentacle, penitent, listen to, enthusiastic, parenthetically, attentive, nonexistent, persistent, potential, intention, attention.