Sentence examples for 17th from high-quality English sources.

• …the importance of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century.

• “Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated” will open on April 17th and continue until October 17th.

• Built in the late 17th century, the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam is one of the most significant legacies of Jewish history in the entire city.

• The Pittsburgh-based 18th District’s move to the far eastern half of Allegheny County might not seem like a big shift, but it’s part of why the new 17th is so competitive.

• Andrew Johnson: 17th President of the United States (Garrett, 1989).

• …17th-century city hall, now the Royal Palace, built in classical Palladian style.

• The second half of the 17th through the early 18th century was a period of magnificent beds.

• Glazed doors, dating from the 17th century, first appeared as window casements extended to the floor.

Use 17th in a sentence.

• Coffee was introduced into one European country after another throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Agra is best known for the Taj Mahal (17th century), designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.

• In the earlier Baroque period (mid-17th century), the term was used synonymously with canzona and sonata.

• In the 17th century a more prosaic representation reappeared, with the Virgin again reclining and holding the Child.

• Through much of the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands prospered from Dutch trade in slaves, plantation products,…

• Kettledrums entered the orchestra in the mid-17th century; orchestral kettledrums are commonly called timpani (q.v.).

• Historians and biographers in the 16th and 17th centuries followed Plutarch in treating character on ethical principles.

• Thus, during the 17th century the âşiq became a bridge between the literary taste of the court and the people of the towns.

17th sentence examples

• Meanwhile, however, a serious Islamic presence was developing in Java, inland as well as on the coasts; by the early 17th century…

• Tupí, now extinct, was an important language of Portuguese evangelization and had a considerable literature in the 17th and 18th centuries.

• After forming part of Hungary in the 11th–16th centuries, it was an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire (16th–17th century) and then once again became part of Hungary at the end of the 17th century.

• The end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th were dominated by ornamental engravers and illustrators, who were working under Flemish influence; by the middle of the 17th century, however, a distinctly French school of portrait engraving had emerged.