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How to use the word Thirteen in a Sentence?

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The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the King's Bank to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave.

Louis McFadden

added by Normando
2 years ago

Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or her father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney.

Jamie Spears ' former attorney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jamie Spears loves Jamie Spears daughter Britney unconditionally. For thirteen years, Jamie Spears has tried to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or Britney Spears ' father, for anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required. For Mr. Jamie Spears, this also meant biting Jamie Spears tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on Jamie Spears by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney.

Vivian Thoreen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Thirteen, lost my virginity over being, you know, being raped, basically.

De La Hoya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thirteen-million dollars would have roughly been the same amount that could go to three emergency road repair projects on Route 2 in the San Gabriel Valley. So just think what that money could have gone to.

Judy Chu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Keystone XL to Paris Agreement was one of the things Read MoreThose ran on, so I can't say Paris Agreement was Paris Agreement. But when you finally hear Paris Agreement, Paris Agreement's a reality check for you. Thirteen years of my career have been spent on Trans Canada. It's tough.

Jeff Birkeland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Jackson Browne

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Girls as young as twelve and thirteen, some just finishing primary school, are being taken by police to a strange place and ordered by someone with a huge amount of power to take off their clothes.

Samantha Lee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Thirteen million children continue to live in poverty in spite of the economic growth that we have seen recently, and low unemployment, in those border states, its as many as one in five. So youre seeing a higher rate of poverty among children in those states.

Leslie Boissiere

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Oh my God, yeah, I bet you’re f ---- ing taking everyone out tonight, $ 600 hundred dollar bill. You’re gon na leave thirteen bucks. I was horrified.

Kaley Cuoco

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thirteen houses were completely washed away last night.

Brice Lefils

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've been a really, really strong takeover target now for the thirteen years I've been at Meggitt, lots of people want to be aerospace, lots of people want to have strong aftermarket positions. It's no surprise that the odd rumour pops up.

Chief Executive Stephen Young

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is in all probability an example of radical Islam at work, and you know I think our emphasis on ISIS is a little overstated because we've had these attacks that predate ISIS, nidal Hasan, when he shot and killed thirteen Americans, stood up on a table and yelled out.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If I hit a good one down 10, I can make birdie, on 11, I'll take par. Twelve, I can birdie. Thirteen, I can birdie or eagle. Fourteen, 15, 16, I can birdie, and 17, you can be on the verge of birdie. And 18 you can birdie.

The Masters

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Macks Creek law was enacted to protect Missourians from predatory traffic ticketing, as we continue to identify areas for reform, an important first step is to require St. Louis County municipalities to follow the Macks Creek law to the letter. Based on my review, these thirteen municipalities did not.

Missouri Attorney General

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Graham Greene

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

George Orwell, "1984", first sentence

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

Jan Ehrenwald.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Jules Feiffer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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