Used in a Sentence

seventeen

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

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The markup for a simple card uses seventeen different classes, which is absolutely a nightmare to memorize.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.

Meaning at a glance

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

N

an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.

N

"Seventeen" is a popular song, recorded by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets in 1955.

N

the debut album by British R&B singer Keisha White.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for seventeen.

N

an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.

N

"Seventeen" is a popular song, recorded by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets in 1955.

N

the debut album by British R&B singer Keisha White.

N

"Seventeen" is a single by American rock band Winger from their debut album Winger.

Example sentences

1

The markup for a simple card uses seventeen different classes, which is absolutely a nightmare to memorize.

2

So yeah, just load all seventeen of your random javascript things from their original sites.

3

On March 9, the company let go eight people from its staff of seventeen.

4

I saw Event Horizon in the theater when I was seventeen or so and I was traumatized.

5

Autotools may be slow and may check for seventeen different fortran compilers even if your project never uses fortran, but portability-wise it simply works.

6

I thought the ultimate power in life is to pose in a bulletproof vest on the cover of seventeen magazine.

7

Conversely, a dollar in 1971 would be worth about seventeen cents today.

8

I was seventeen at the time, and she was worried that I would get drafted.

9

The incense that is mine by right They burn before her shrine; And that's because I'm seventeen And She is forty-nine.

10

They walk beside Her 'rickshaw wheels -- None ever walk by mine; And that's because I'm seventeen And She is foty-nine.

11

It just smarts when you're dying with over seventeen years experience.

12

While assertions serve me well these days they did not serve me at all until I had been coding for seventeen years.

Quote examples

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She introduces me to men, "Cast" lovers, I opine, For sixty takes to seventeen, Nineteen to foty-nine.

2

Seventeen exclamation points elided here!", because shaving seconds off user-perceptible load times results in huge, automatic, reproducible impacts to the bottom line, across a wide range of different web sites.

3

The first time I saw Aliens - it was one of the strange TV edits that included the sentry guns, but lacked the other salient bits - holy fuck, it immediately gave me the sense of "this is what films should aspire to." Roughly seventeen years later, I always experience the same thrill that I did the first time I saw it.

Proper noun examples

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Seventeen years later, Professor James Arnold is kidnapped by unknown assailants, led by Internet billionaire Richmond Valentine and his henchwoman Gazelle.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use seventeen in a sentence?

The markup for a simple card uses seventeen different classes, which is absolutely a nightmare to memorize.

What does seventeen mean?

an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.

What part of speech is seventeen?

seventeen is commonly used as N.