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How to use the word Eighteen in a Sentence?

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Warm air in the cold season, middle of the night -- this sickens me to see what has happened, look at the pictures on your screens. Homes, totally impaled, two-by-fours through cars, eighteen-wheelers thrown 30 feet moved in the northwesterly direction -- that takes a lot of force.

Michael Gordon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Eighteen holes with him is a long time, i don't want to be around him as much anybody else.

Brooks Koepka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of our veterans and their families have gone through hell -- deployment after deployment, months and years away from their families ; missed birthdays, anniversaries ; empty chairs at holidays ; financial struggles ; divorces ; loss of limbs ; traumatic brain injury ; post-traumatic stress. We see it in the struggles many have when they come home. We see it in the strain on their families and caregivers. We see it in the strain of their families when they're not there. We see it in the grief borne by their survivors. The cost of war they will carry with them their whole lives, most tragically, we see it in the shocking and stunning statistic that should give pause to anyone who thinks war can ever be low-grade, low-risk or low-cost : Eighteen veterans, on average, who die by suicide every single day in America -- not in a far-off place, but right here in America.

Beau Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of the women that are engaged in sex trafficking, you know, are younger than eighteen up to about twenty-five or so. They're coming here looking for a dream and find a nightmare in places like this, those nightmares are happening in neighborhoods all across the United States.

Craig Cummings

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nineteen percent wash food products with bleach, which could lead to their consumption of bleach that isn't washed off, which can damage the body because bleach is toxic. Eighteen percent used household cleaner on bare skin, which can damage the skin and cause rashes and burns.

Vincent Hill

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It provides immediate results, but even better results are seen after three months as your body produces collagen, these threads will start to dissolve within six to nine months, but due to the collagen and elastin stimulation the effect will last up to eighteen months.

Marina Vergara

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Ken Dodd

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

Don Felder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

She's a young adult, being 18 in a new country where you probably just fled violence... don't know the language. Eighteen is not a sufficient age to be able to see for yourself like that.

Camila Alvarez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After eighteen months of working with Steve to lead the transformation strategy and rebuild the finance function I have decided that now is the right time to move on.

Humphrey Singer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This belongs to the people of Israel, there's no question about it, eighteen years ago we came here, one family, and today we have a flourishing community.

Itai Zar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I try to find some positive, even when something negative happens, eighteen. How lucky was that?

Brooks Koepka

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Eighteen years is, I think, really unfair.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will start with six 70-seat turboprops and expand to eighteen, that is the plan.

German Efromovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is opening in Argentina, with a different mentality, until now it never interested us, we will start with six 70-seat turboprops and expand to eighteen, that is the plan.

German Efromovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's something about 18 years, eighteen is a good number, and today I retire from pro football.

Peyton Manning

Found on CNN
8 years ago

France is a special friend. Eighteen years ago, France was the first country we signed a strategic partnership with. We are now here to take it higher.

Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

OPEC, Russia and the U.S. beat our initial supply expectations, adding to an existing inventory headwind. For 2016 we think of it as the market rebalancing year, but only from 2H (the second half of 2016), next year will be the year of undersupply which means we should see at least an eighteen month bull market from the middle of this year.

Alliance Bernstein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Eighteen of 18 pallets landed on the intended target.

Martin Dempsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucker

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.

Dylan Thomas

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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