Used in a Sentence

fourteen

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fourteen.

Editorial note

A fourteen-hour flight with in-flight movies is vastly superior to a fourteen-hour flight with the back of the seat in front of you.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fourteen gathered in one view.

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

adjective

being one more than thirteen

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fourteen.

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

adjective

being one more than thirteen

Example sentences

1

A fourteen-hour flight with in-flight movies is vastly superior to a fourteen-hour flight with the back of the seat in front of you.

2

On October 4, 1983, Wang Laboratories announced fourteen major hardware and software products, and promised dates of delivery.

3

She even reports her height (five feet and three inches) and weight (one hundred and fourteen pounds) at that age.

4

There were fourteen of these domes, run as a cooperative, on three acres of land.

5

Indeed, commercial banks expanded the money supply nineteen-fold in the fourteen year period that ended with the banking crisis of 2008.

6

We have fourteen separate agencies that do overlapping intelligence gathering of one sort or another.

7

Among other things my hairline is visibly receding in photographs starting from when I was fourteen years old.

8

I just get frustrated that it's so hard to filter out the fourteen year olds screaming abuse at me.

9

To top it off the series has been running for fourteen years.

10

When I see fourteen tests to one code unit, I know now to run away.

11

(The US is a big place, and all social trends are not perfectly distributed.) Louisiana incarcerates over 1400 of its 100,000, four to fourteen times most other countries.

12

Is this before or after the fourteen percent hotel tax?

Quote examples

1

Phrases like “fourteen thousand, seven hundred and twelve” are horribly confusing and wasteful, and do immense damage to fluency with basic arithmetic.

2

One political event from the past fourteen years that I can look at and go "something fundamental changed for the better".

3

There's a reason John Rogers wrote “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

4

Reminds me of Stephen King's rejection slips: "By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it.

Proper noun examples

1

Fourteen years of this man's life were stolen from him by Harry Connick, Sr., years that he can never get back.

2

Fourteen points in a row of alternating increasing and decreasing isn't just indicative of an oscillation, but an oscillation that's close enough to your measurement frequency that you aren't actually able to measure it accurately.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fourteen in a sentence?

A fourteen-hour flight with in-flight movies is vastly superior to a fourteen-hour flight with the back of the seat in front of you.

What does fourteen mean?

the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one

What part of speech is fourteen?

fourteen is commonly used as noun, adjective.