Sentence examples for fifth great from inspiring English sources

That collision kicked off the fifth great mass extinction in the history of the planet, and cleared the way for mammals to expand into a plethora of ecological niches that suddenly became vacant.But the dinosaurs did not disappear completely.

Morrison told a citizenship ceremony in Canberra that his fifth great grandfather, William Roberts, arrived with the first fleet in a group that was "wretched, naked, filthy, dirty, lousy, and many of them utterly unable to stand, or even to stir hand or foot".

She failed to advance past the fourth round at either Wimbledon or the United States Open and finished the year ranked fifth, great news for some young tennis players but not for a diva who despite all the millions she makes off the court remains, at heart, a ferocious competitor.

The DSM, now approaching its fifth great edition, runs to hundreds of pages and includes such nebulous-sounding illnesses as intermittent explosive disorder (temper tantrums), relational disorder (pissed off with a relative) and sluggish cognitive tempo disorder (you may lack motivation).

By the time he released his fifth great American songbook collection, you got the feeling that even the most indefatigable fan of the jazzy standard was on the floor tearfully pleading for mercy, and in danger of developing a nervous twitch brought on by the opening chords of Mack the Knife.

Britain's Mo Farah wins a record fifth Great North Run in Newcastle on Sunday.

Setting thoughts of his birthday celebration aside, he noted that March 30 is also the day his fifth great-grandchild, Mitchell's first grandchild, is due to be born.

His full name is Louis Gladding Varick V. Few would guess that in 1796, his fifth great-grandfather, James Varick, founded the A.M.E.

Elizabeth, chosen in tribute to the Queen in the year she overtakes Victoria as Britain's longest-reigning monarch, will delight the 89-year-old, who has yet to meet her fifth great-grandchild.

Most of his maternal roots, however, lead back to Ireland, whence two of his fifth great-grandfathers embarked for the States in the middle years of the eighteenth century.

A newly appointed city commissioner in New York, Stacey Cumberbatch, told the New York Times last week that she believed British actor Benedict Cumberbatch's fifth great-grandfather owned her ancestors on an 18th-century sugar plantation in Barbados.