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How to use fortieth in a sentence

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The Feast of the Ascension marks the fortieth day after Easter, as Jesus is taken up to heaven in the cloud.
In traditional families, a new bride's parents visit her in her new home on the fortieth day after the marriage and give her a trousseau.
We wish Jimmy and Jan many more years of health and happiness and here's to the fortieth, folks.
The seventh day after death, the fortieth day, and annual remembrance are the accepted way of respecting the dead.
Well, today is Dr. D's fortieth birthday, so you all should drop by his site and wish him a happy birthday.
On the third, seventh, and fortieth day after a loved one's death, there are large gatherings dedicated to the deceased's memory.
Speaking of sound engineers, a gentleman of the Australian nation is celebrating his fortieth birthday today.
A few days later he went back on his decision, however, promising fans a double album in 2007 to mark the fortieth anniversary of his career.
It was decided that the supplementary protocol shall enter into force after the fortieth ratification.
Now, with his fortieth birthday approaching, he decided it was time to retire.
Why pay many thousands of dollars for a body rub license when a massage parlour license is one fortieth of the cost?
Over baked Alaska, Mr Brown-Lee informed Alicia that he would be attending a ball next week, held in honour of a colleague's fortieth wedding anniversary.
The application must be filed during the period extending from the fortieth to the twentieth day preceding polling day.
It became Jackson's twenty-ninth top twenty hit on the chart and fortieth entry, making Jackson the seventh female in history to achieve this.
The secretariat noted that the Convention had entered into force in Belarus, the fortieth State Party, after the end of the period being reported upon, so no report on implementation had been expected from that country.
Having become a bus driver after his release, he deeply regrets what has happened to him and decides to undertake some unfinished business before taking leave of this world on his fortieth birthday.
And Omega threw a rollicking cocktail party starring Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts, to kvell over the fortieth birthday of the first lunar landing — of both man and wristwatch.
You do not see end-to-end rushes because those being rushed are less likely to lose their underwear when seeing the same deke for the fortieth time than were defensemen of an earlier generation.
I'm changing that thirty-fifth to fortieth right now.
The one safe prediction is that the issue will continue to shape the war between left and right for years to come and that the fortieth anniversary of Roe v Wade will be just as acrimonious as the thirtieth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He began it in his fortieth year, and did not finish it until his ninetieth.
Its habitual sojourn is in the portion of the Northern Ocean lying between the fortieth and sixty-sixth degrees of latitude.
Some very pious Sha'hs celebrate the fortieth day after the first of Muharram.
At the fortieth trout I gave up counting, and I had leached the fortieth in less than two hours.
No two thoughts were related to each other even by the fortieth cousinship.
Dryden and Scott were not known as authors until each was in his fortieth year.
His children are pensioned into the third and fourth and fortieth generation.
To be exact he did not go the length of the block between Thirty-ninth and fortieth.
It was not until about his fortieth year that he found his true direction.
But these fellows of the fortieth were not so easily fooled.
The fortieth brought me to a doorway, through which I turned.
Someone proposed a vast bonfire made out of the works of the Forty Academicians into which the Great Victorians might be hurled on their fortieth birthday.
Bloomer retired as a player in the summer of 1914, just before his fortieth birthday, and shortly afterwards moved to Germany to coach a team called Britannia Berlin.
I told him the Fortieth, and that I had been one of the forlorn hope.
At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.
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