ELEVEN in a Sentence
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126 example sentences for ELEVEN, such as:
1. Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
2. Our business hours begin at eleven.
3. Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine.
4. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
5. Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
2. Our business hours begin at eleven.
3. Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine.
4. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
5. Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
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Meanings and Examples of ELEVEN
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eleven
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
a. being one more than ten
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1 But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been.
2 At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement.
3 That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o'clock with a tremendous crash of glass.
4 A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone up-stairs to bed about eleven.
5 By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.
6 As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
7 As the brilliant light of the lamp which burnt before its door, guided her to the spot, the clock struck eleven.
8 It was past eleven o'clock, and the door was closed.
9 The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged on London Bridge.
10 It was eleven o'clock when he came in, though he had not been further than the precincts of the garden.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
11 It was nearly eleven o'clock, when, with almost a shriek, Christian placed Yeobright's last gleaming guinea upon the stone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
12 In Mrs. Yeobright's garden large-leaved plants of a tender kind flagged by ten o'clock in the morning; rhubarb bent downward at eleven; and even stiff cabbages were limp by noon.
13 At half-past eleven, finding that the house was silent, Eustacia had lighted her candle, put on some warm outer wrappings, taken her bag in her hand, and, extinguishing the light again, descended the staircase.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
14 Between ten and eleven o'clock, finding that neither Fairway nor anybody else came to him, he retired to rest, and despite his anxieties soon fell asleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
15 Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven.
Example Sentence:
1 Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
2 Rain before seven; fine before eleven.
3 Our business hours begin at eleven.
4 She breezed in at eleven and greeted everyone with a smile.
5 Annual consumption of wine has risen from five to eleven litres per head.
6 Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine.
7 Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
8 A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
9 A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
10 The new eleven hour curfew has been brought in by an administration seemingly desperate to stop what has now become a wave of demonstrations against King Gyanendra, his son Crown Prince Paras and increasingly, in favor of a republic.